# Offtopic: kaggle / numerai making news
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/offtopic-kaggle-numerai-making-news/9954
**Category:** Offtopic
**Created:** [March 25, 2018, 1:53am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/offtopic-kaggle-numerai-making-news/9954 "2018-03-25T01:53:22Z")
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### Author:  [@y4lu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/y4lu)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2018, 1:53am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/offtopic-kaggle-numerai-making-news/9954/1 "2018-03-25T01:53:22Z")
> **[Numerai giving out $1 million in cryptocurrency to new Kaggle signups](https://www.cryptoninjas.net/2018/03/19/numerai-will-give-out-1-million-in-cryptocurrency-to-kaggle-users-who-sign-up/)**
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> Today Numerai, the crowdsourced hedge fund, is giving away $1 million worth of cryptocurrency to Kaggle users who sign up to Numerai. Kaggle has built the biggest data science community on the internet. "We want every
> “We want every single Kaggle user to join Numerai. Giving them $1 million in Numeraire is the beginning of that,” says Richard Craib, founder of Numerai. Kaggle users who connect their accounts to Numerai at numer.ai/airdrops will receive 30 NMR (worth around $500).
> **[Numerai Crypocurrency Airdrop | Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/discussions/general/52852)**
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> Numerai Crypocurrency Airdrop.
> Following that announcement, there has been a massive increase in the number of login attempts to the Kaggle website. These are attempts to break into Kaggle accounts in order to claim the cyptocurrency airdrop. This is both stressing our systems and putting Kaggle accounts at risk.
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### Author:  [@y4lu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/y4lu)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2018, 6:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/offtopic-kaggle-numerai-making-news/9954/2 "2018-03-25T06:27:44Z")
It doesn’t make for much of a thread i suppose, so other data-sciencey type links / news are welcome
- [https://algorithmia.com/pricing](https://algorithmia.com/pricing) Cloud / SaaS(?) with a twist, you can rent out your algorithms for credits, 1,000,000 credits to US$100 minimum cash-out, with 50c of free credits per user per month.
- Article: The race for AI(-start-ups) [https://www.cbinsights.com/research/top-acquirers-ai-startups-ma-timeline/](https://www.cbinsights.com/research/top-acquirers-ai-startups-ma-timeline/)
- [Portfolio - Gradient Ventures](https://gradient.google/portfolio/) A peek at a part of google’s AI collection
- [https://angel.co/companies?company\_types[]=Startup&markets[]=Enterprise+Software](https://angel.co/companies?company_types%5B%5D=Startup&markets%5B%5D=Enterprise+Software)
A peek into the software start-ups market
Some critical thought
- Not so big Data [Big Data Goes Bust | Rigzone](https://www.rigzone.com/news/wire/big_data_goes_bust-23-mar-2018-153993-article/?all=hg2)
- The ‘`Russians`’ [The New Military-Industrial Complex of Big Data Psy-Ops | Tamsin Shaw | The New York Review of Books](http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/21/the-digital-military-industrial-complex/)