<i>The winners, the people who provide the best set of predictions based on an analysis of a database of millions of text questions, will get jobs at Facebook.</i><p>Actually, it looks like the winners will just get interviews at Facebook.<p>I think Kaggle is a very interesting site and company, but I think it's a stretch say they hold "data science" competitions. Most of their contest are extremely limited in scope to applying machine learning to pre-sanitized data sets. This really covers only a small part of what practicing data scientists do.
How will this "baffle normal people"? If by normal people you mean people who aren't data scientists, then sure, it will. It'll baffle them in the same way the bar exam will baffle "normal" people, those who aren't trying to practice law.<p>Anyway, this sounds like a great way of candidate hunting, and a refreshing solution to all of the "interviews are broken" posts that have been around lately.
Why don't the moderators of this forum at least write a notification of the changed title and link? Some of the comments here don't make sense as a result.