10/22/2014
Kaggle talks to you while it processes your submissions, gets to know you. A crude breakdown of the emotions invoked by/in some of Kaggle's messages:
[self-deprecating]
".. what has 64 cores and 128 gb ram? not me, hold tight"
".. first in first out? this could take a while"
[respectably reflective on logistics of the computation]
".. reserving the local university teraflop cluster"
".. adding more hamsters to the evaluation cluster"
".. wiring more money to our cloud provider"
[encouraging in a revealing fashion]
"all models are wrong, yours are just useful"
[invoking the primal, all be it mildly irrational instinct of association found in the machine learning community]
".. is this Bayesian? You know I'm a strict Bayesian right?"
[real flattering]
".. deep learning is shallow next to the depths of your greatness"
".. dicovering your kgi (Kaggle Greatness Index)"
".. you take the 'artificial' out of AI"
and finally,
[flat out flirtatious]
".. something tells me this isn't your first csv file ;)" [for effect, repeat in a Matthew Mcconaughey voice]