So are you guys making any progress? --------- Matt Taylor OS Community Flag-Bearer Numenta
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Chetan Surpur <[email protected]> wrote: > Kaggle team, > > Hope everyone's okay with communicating general stuff here, as per request. > > I was thinking that we could start simply, by just feeding in the stream > of solar energy readings to the CLA sequentially. This will allow us to see > how well it does at predicting solar energy from just the temporal > sequence, and the time of day, day of week, etc. > > In parallel, someone else can learn to extract what we need from the GEFS > weather data, correlating the weather variables with each solar energy > reading time. We can build a CSV file of all the variables together, and > run a swarm. > > How does this approach sound? > > I can volunteer to set up the project and start feeding the solar energy > with temporal information to the CLA. Whoever wants to help is welcome to. > Anyone up for massaging the GEFS data as described above? > > Thanks, > Chetan > > P.S. We still need a team name! > > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Tim McNamara <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> +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 >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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