Among the spectators at the Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest on Coney Island last summer were a group of 10 graduate students. They had come to New York City from places like India, Germany and California for summer school at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute, and algorithms were on the agenda. And they had also come to experience New York — to see for themselves New York phenomena like the stunning and perplexing spectacle that is a hotdog-eating contest.
The Flatiron Institute, the research division of the Simons Foundation, works to advance basic scientific research through computational methods. During the 2022 summer school session, students learned to use the cutting-edge data analysis methods known collectively as ‘machine learning’ to address some of today’s most pressing scientific problems.
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