The Netflix Prize competition (2006, completed in 2009) was a Kaggle competition before Kaggle competitions (2010), with the same business-side incentives.
Given the meteoric rise of ML/AI in the past few years, I'm surprised that Kaggle doesn't come up more often. It was all the rage 2013-2018...then most I heard about it was that it allowed free access to TPUs.
Given the meteoric rise of ML/AI in the past few years, I'm surprised that Kaggle doesn't come up more often. It was all the rage 2013-2018...then most I heard about it was that it allowed free access to TPUs.