Hi Matt & Chetan,

Might I suggest "The Four Horses of the Neocortex" as a team name? ;)

Fergal Byrne


On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

> So are you guys making any progress?
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> 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
>>>> ;).
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>> >>>>> --
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>>>> >>>>> Unicamp - Eng. de Computação 08.
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