These also sound like good hackathon projects! Matt
Sent from my MegaPhone > On Oct 16, 2013, at 8:03 PM, Chetan Surpur <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm interested in participating! > > I haven't decided on one yet, but I wanted to point out that the CLA looks > ideally suited for the AMS 2013-2014 Solar Energy Prediction contest. From > what I can tell, it's about predicting the daily energy output of solar farms > from 12, 15, 18, 21, 24-hourly training data. There's 29 days to go. > > >> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Pedro Tabacof <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> After the warm reception of the Kaggle competition idea, I decided to create >> the thread asap. For those who are not aware, Kaggle is a data mining >> competition website. It has been hyped on the machine learning media and has >> some great people participating in it. It rewards with different prizes, but >> my focus is not earn money, but rather to see how good NuPIC would fare >> against the state of the art. I found those following competitions to be a >> viable start: >> >> 1) Accelerometer Biometric Competition >> From real acceleration data you have to guess from which cell phone came the >> test samples. >> 36 days to go >> Pros: >> -Multivariable, temporal data seems ideal for the CLA >> Cons: >> -The best competitors are using data leaks (meta-information), so the chance >> of winning fairly is zero (though they will give a consolation prize to the >> best "honest" entry) >> Questions: >> -How fast would NuPIC go through a 1GB CSV file? >> -The test data is not open-ended, that is, you have to say whether a >> recording belongs to a specific cell phone or not, with 50% chance of being >> right. Would NuPIC do well in this case? >> >> 2) Multi-Label Bird Species Classification >> Try to guess the bird species present on some audio recordings >> 38 days to go >> Pros: >> -Temporal data >> Cons: >> -Multiple labels, so I think we would need 87 different models, which is >> kinda impractical >> Question: >> -Is there a better way to do multi-label classification with NuPIC? >> >> 3) Conway's Reverse Game of Life >> Reverse the game of life for 1 to 5 steps >> 4 months to go >> Pros: >> -Natural input sparseness (have to check on it) >> -Temporal data >> -Multistep classification >> -We can generate our own training data if necessary >> Cons: >> -Maybe there are very straightforward ways to solve this (rule based, brute >> force, etc) >> -Too much time before the competition ends >> Questions: >> -How sparse does the input need to be for the CLA to work well? >> -Is it possible to use a 2D arrangement on the cells connection matrix? >> >> There is also the AMS 2013-2014 Solar Energy Prediction contest, but I >> didn't have time to go over it. The other competitions don't seem to be >> suited for NuPIC. >> >> Who here is interested on participating and what competition do you think to >> be the most promising one? >> >> Pedro. >> -- >> Pedro Tabacof, >> Unicamp - Eng. de Computação 08. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nupic mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org > > _______________________________________________ > nupic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org
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