I think the infoarena community should move some of it's focus from solving algorithms puzzles to machine learning and deep learning in particular.

Here are some of my notes on deep learning:

Here are some of my notes about this:

*Anecdotes*:

* 2013 'Wired interview with Geoff Hinton, one of the neural net pioneers':http://www.wired.com/2013/03/google_hinton/
* 2012 'Google cat detector on 16000 machines':http://www.wired.com/2012/06/google-x-neural-network/

And some news:
 

Mircea Pasoi and Cristian Strat, after their successful stint at twitter, recently founded Alien Labs. They use deep learning to build intelligent chat bots for an office environment. This is an awesome opportunity to work together again. It's been 8 years since we last did. At Google, we worked on an ads inventory management problem using 'network flows':http://goo.gl/5SDRrM Our claim to fame is that we got help from Cliff Stein, the S in 'CLRS':https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-algorithms :). This is also an opportunity for me to jump on the deep learning train tackling real world problems.
Yesterday I've started at Alien Labs based in San Francisco. The first thing I'm going to work on is figuring out if two questions are similar. This should be fun!