Kaggle Master (IT Best Kept Secret Is Optimization)

Do you have spare time on evenings and week ends? Here is a great way to use it: enter machine learning competitions. That's what I do since a year, as often as I can. The latest competition I entered, the Quora competition on Kaggle, was quite good for me as my team finished in gold, being 12th among more than 3,300 teams. Over 100 million people visit Quora every month, so it's no surprise that many people ask similarly worded questions.