Pedro et al, Unless you're actually going to be dealing with proprietary information, I encourage you to have your Kaggle discussions here on the mailing list. I'm sure there are others out there interested in what you're doing, but unable to take part (like me).
Feel free to start a new thread, or use this one, but please use this list if you can. No one has complained about too many emails... yet ;). --------- Matt Taylor OS Community Flag-Bearer Numenta On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Pedro Tabacof <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you all for the interest. I think now it's time to create a private > thread for the competition. The Solar Energy competition was the most voted > one so it can be our first Kaggle attempt. > > If anyone else is also interested in joining the competition, just send me a > message. > > Pedro. > > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Doug King <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I'm interested in joining the team. I looked at the Kaggle contests and I >> agree that the best choice would be Solar Energy Prediction, but I wouldn't >> discount the Phone accelerometer contest. I think its a good fit for the CLA >> and and interesting application. The forum posts for that contest seem to >> indicate the sponsors are willing to judge a 'clean' (no leakage) version of >> the contest. >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Jay Gokhale <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I'd love to use CLA's on a kaggle project! >>> >>> If Chetan's description is correct, it seems to me that the Solar Energy >>> Prediction contest would be the most straight forward one to work on. >>> >>> Jay Gokhale >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nupic mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org >> > > > > -- > 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
