Whose methods actually
solve the problem?
Every coin is a real figure from the history of statistics, computing, and machine learning. Tap someone else's coin and you both get a real problem from the field's past — the winner is whoever's actual toolkit fits it. Fisher beats Hinton on eight field plots. Hinton buries Fisher on sixty thousand digits.
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Michael I. Jordan
stat-learning 11–1 2
David Blei
stat-learning 9–1 3
John Santerre
deep-modern 9–19
Michael I. Jordanstat-learning 11–1 2
David Bleistat-learning 9–1 3
John Santerredeep-modern 9–19
Most wins is only one way to win — there are nine boards, and a weak figure can still take Overachiever.
Just now
Jon Kleinberg
beat John Santerre
Drive through the intersection Terence Tao beat John Santerre
Program chess before the computer exists Larry Wasserman beat Frank Rosenblatt
One test or twenty? John Santerre beat Michael Mahoney
The memory that completes the pattern Martin Wainwright beat Michael I. Jordan
Just look at the neighbors Linus Torvalds beat Karl Pearson
The robot in the warehouse
Drive through the intersection Terence Tao beat John Santerre
Program chess before the computer exists Larry Wasserman beat Frank Rosenblatt
One test or twenty? John Santerre beat Michael Mahoney
The memory that completes the pattern Martin Wainwright beat Michael I. Jordan
Just look at the neighbors Linus Torvalds beat Karl Pearson
The robot in the warehouse
Most fought over
The memory that completes the pattern
3 battles
perception — see who wins it and why
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Every result comes from 15,324 precomputed judgments about whose methods apply where. Nothing is decided at random, and the explanations are the point — read why you won.