To yahoo: that seems like an unbelievably lame restriction. Even aside from commercial entities, there are many many people working to improve machine learning with no university affiliation.
You're basically taking something really cool here and shooting yourself in the knee with a shotgun.
I hope other companies don't think open data initiatives count if they're not actually open. If you want to keep your data internal and top secret, totally fine, but open data should be available to anyone or it doesn't count.
Almost yahoo, almost...
Edit:
>> I didn't see the word "open" mentioned once in this article...
Touché sir. Sentiment still stands: "released to researchers" and "released to the public" should not be different things.
You're basically taking something really cool here and shooting yourself in the knee with a shotgun.
I hope other companies don't think open data initiatives count if they're not actually open. If you want to keep your data internal and top secret, totally fine, but open data should be available to anyone or it doesn't count.
Almost yahoo, almost...
Edit:
>> I didn't see the word "open" mentioned once in this article...
Touché sir. Sentiment still stands: "released to researchers" and "released to the public" should not be different things.