Computer Geeks: Compete to Help NASA Explain Dark Energy | Wired Science | Wired.com: "So cosmologists have turned to machine learning algorithms that teach computers to recognize patterns.
“We’re trying to teach computers to pick out the correct shape given all sorts of other noise around the galaxy’s shape,” said NASA cosmologist Jason Rhodes, who is helping to organize the challenge. “We have our ideas as a community about how to do this, but we realized a few years ago that it was quite possible there were ideas we weren’t familiar with.”"
