Machine learning

So Waffles is a C++ library/command-line toolkit for common machine learning tasks, and looks mondo cool. And just in time, too, because machine learning is in the news!

• The Heritage Health Prize is a $3 million competition in machine learning to predict unnecessary hospitalization. They have a Facebook account for news posts. Starts April 4.
• It'll be run on Kaggle.com (previously) and apparently there are two warmups: one is author identification from Arabic handwriting samples (!) and the other it also pretty interesting: try to develop solutions that don't overfit if given test cases roughly equal in number to the number of variables.
• Finally, found through spacehack.org: DASH, a collaborative program for data mining pertaining to aircraft systems health. Verr' cool!

Again: in a metaprogramming mode, Decl could generate code in any language to satisfy requirements in a given domain.