+1 Very interested in observing this project On 22/10/2013 12:08 AM, "Matthew Taylor" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >
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