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 What's New
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+* XGBoost wins [HEP meets ML Award in Higgs Boson Challenge](http://atlas.ch/news/2014/machine-learning-wins-the-higgs-challenge.html)
 * Thanks to Bing Xu, [XGBoost.jl](https://github.com/antinucleon/XGBoost.jl) allows you to use xgboost from Julia
 * See the updated [demo folder](demo) for feature walkthrough
 * Thanks to Tong He, the new [R package](R-package) is available