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Juxi Leitner

StarCraft AI Competition | Expressive Intelligence Studio - 4 views

eis.ucsc.edu/StarCraftAICompetition

ai competition technology fun science

shared by Juxi Leitner on 17 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Juxi Leitner on 17 Nov 09
     
    The Expressive Intelligence Studio at UC Santa Cruz will be hosting a StarCraft competition: This competition enables academic researchers to evaluate their AI systems in a robust commercial RTS environment. The final matches will be held live with commentary. Exhibition matches will also be held between skilled human players and the top performing bots.
Luís F. Simões

Evolution of AI Interplanetary Trajectories Reaches Human-Competitive Levels - Slashdot - 4 views

science.slashdot.org/...aches-human-competitive-levels

AI MAD GTOC PaGMO evolutionary computation trajectory optimization awards

shared by Luís F. Simões on 19 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • "It's not the Turing test just yet, but in one more domain, AI is becoming increasingly competitive with humans. This time around, it's in interplanetary trajectory optimization. From the European Space Agency comes the news that researchers from its Advanced Concepts Team have recently won the Gold 'Humies' award for their use of Evolutionary Algorithms to design a spacecraft's trajectory for exploring the Galilean moons of Jupiter (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto). The problem addressed in the awarded article (PDF) was put forward by NASA/JPL in the latest edition of the Global Trajectory Optimization Competition. The team from ESA was able to automatically evolve a solution that outperforms all the entries submitted to the competition by human experts from across the world. Interestingly, as noted in the presentation to the award's jury (PDF), the team conducted their work on top of open-source tools (PaGMO / PyGMO and PyKEP)."
  • Luís F. Simões on 19 Jul 13
     
    We made it to Slashdot's frontpage !!! :)
  • Ma Ru on 23 Jul 13
     
    Congratulations, gentlemen!
Luís F. Simões

Kaggle: Crowdsourcing Data Modeling - 2 views

www.kaggle.com/aboutus

crowdsourcing competition data mining statistics data database

shared by Luís F. Simões on 05 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Kaggle is an innovative solution for statistical/analytics outsourcing. We are the leading platform for data modeling and prediction competitions. Companies, governments and researchers present datasets and problems - the world's best data scientists then compete to produce the best solutions. At the end of a competition, the competition host pays prize money in exchange for the intellectual property behind the winning model.
Marcus Maertens

AI competitions don't produce useful models - Luke Oakden-Rayner - 2 views

lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com/...ons-dont-produce-useful-models

AI

shared by Marcus Maertens on 20 Sep 19 - No Cached
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  • Marcus Maertens on 20 Sep 19
     
    This is an interesting viewpoint on the applicability (usefulness) of AI models devised by competitions, backed up by easy statistics. Worth a read!
LeopoldS

SpaceX Undercut Competition to Clinch Head turning Iridium Deal | SpaceNews.com - 0 views

www.spacenews.com/...-clinch-492m-iridium-deal.html

launcher competition space-tourism

shared by LeopoldS on 17 Jun 10 - Cached
  • LeopoldS on 17 Jun 10
     
    very nice success by what we called in 2003 "the second space age" ... for Joris: (related to the discussion we had the other day) But the spacecraft will be assembled, integrated and tested in the United States and will include U.S. hardware, meaning they would not be allowed for launch aboard Indian or Chinese rockets under current U.S. regulations.
ESA ACT

NASA Robotics - Robotics Alliance Project - 0 views

robotics.nasa.gov

NASA competition Robotics game

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    most of you probably already know the site but still worth having a look at it from time to time ... they just releast the new FIRST competition ...
ESA ACT

Google Lunar X PRIZE Foundation - 0 views

www.googlelunarxprize.org

science space technology competition

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    This is also a competition...
LeopoldS

Volare robotics challenge, robot helpers for ISS competition by ESA | Robohub - 1 views

robohub.org/ers-for-iss-competition-by-esa

robotics

shared by LeopoldS on 31 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 31 Mar 13
     
    i just saw this on robohum when reading guidos astrodrone article ...
Guido de Croon

Convolutional networks start to rule the world! - 2 views

www.image-net.org/...results.html

computer vision AI neural networks

shared by Guido de Croon on 12 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Guido de Croon on 12 Jan 13
     
    Recently, many competitions in the computer vision domain have been won by huge convolutional networks. In the image net competition, the convolutional network approach halves the error from ~30% to ~15%! Key changes that make this happen: weight-sharing to reduce the search space, and training with a massive GPU approach. (See also the work at IDSIA: http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/vision.html) This should please Francisco :)
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  • LeopoldS on 19 Jan 13
     
    where is Francisco when one needs him ...
  • Dario Izzo on 22 Jan 13
     
    ...mmmmm... they use 60 million parameters and 650,000 neurons on a task that one can somehow consider easier than (say) predicting a financial crisis ... still they get 15% of errors .... reminds me of a comic we saw once ... cat http://www.sarjis.info/stripit/abstruse-goose/496/the_singularity_is_way_over_there.png
  • johannessimon81 on 23 Jan 13
     
    I think the ultimate solution is still to put a human brain in a jar and use it for pattern recognition. Maybe we should get a stagiaire for this..?
Luís F. Simões

Billion-euro brain simulation and graphene projects win European funds - 1 views

www.nature.com/...cts-win-european-funds-1.12291

brain graphene

shared by Luís F. Simões on 24 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Luís F. Simões on 24 Jan 13
     
    winners of the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Flagship competition (informally) announced
  • Ma Ru on 24 Jan 13
     
    Hopefully the money wasted on the brain project will be offset by the gains on graphene... When I heard the proposals presentations on fet11 conference back in 2011, the graphene project was my bet.. Although its motivations were mostly political ("everyone else is working on graphene so if Europe won't do something, we'll soon be far behind"), in contrast to other projects it appeared to have well defined tangible objectives and gave hope of actually delivering something.
Luís F. Simões

Mapping Dark Matter Case Study - Kaggle - 3 views

host.kaggle.com/mdm

crowdsourcing competition data mining image dark_matter

shared by Luís F. Simões on 08 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Mapping Dark Matter competition to encourage the development of new algorithms that can measure the way dark matter causes tiny distortions in images of galaxies by changing their ellipticity, or how their shapes are stretched.
  • Luís F. Simões on 08 Nov 11
     
    Blog posts describing the approaches followed by the contestants that ranked 1st, 2nd and 3rd.
jcunha

NASA challenges designers to construct habitat for deep space exploration - 3 views

phys.org/...at-deep-space-exploration.html

technology architech competition FUN 3D printer

shared by jcunha on 19 May 15 - No Cached
  • jcunha on 19 May 15
     
    NASA is setting a $2.25 million competition to design and build a 3-D printed habitat for deep space exploration - new task for the future architect of the team?
  • Paul N on 26 May 15
     
    I kind of like Thijs's space mirror ablation method as a way of printing :))
Juxi Leitner

NASA Plans for Nonprofit To Manage Station Research | SpaceNews.com - 0 views

www.spacenews.com/...nonprofit-manage-research.html

technology space research ISS experiments

shared by Juxi Leitner on 02 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Juxi Leitner on 02 Nov 10
     
    "competitively select a domestic nonprofit organization to manage experiments aboard the international space station (ISS)" nice
Dario Izzo

If you're going to do good science, release the computer code too!!! - 3 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...ce-climate-emails-code-release

open science

shared by Dario Izzo on 09 Feb 10 - Cached
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  • Les Hatton, an international expert in software testing resident in the Universities of Kent and Kingston, carried out an extensive analysis of several million lines of scientific code. He showed that the software had an unacceptably high level of detectable inconsistencies.
  • pacome delva on 09 Feb 10
     
    haha. this guy won't have any new friends with this article! I kind of agree but making your code public doesn't mean you are doing good science...and inversely! He takes experimental physics as a counter example but even there, some teams keep their little secrets on the details of the experiment to have a bit of advance on other labs. Research is competitive in its current state, and I think only collaborations can overcome this fact.
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  • Juxi Leitner on 10 Feb 10
     
    well sure competitiveness is good but to verify (and that should be the case for scientific experiments) the code should be public, it would be nice to have something like bibtex for code libraries or versions used.... :) btw I fully agree that the code should go public, I had lots of trouble reproducing (reprogramming) some papers in the past ... grr
  • Francesco Biscani on 10 Feb 10
     
    My view is that the only proper way to do scientific communication is full transparency: methodologies, tests, codes, etc. Everything else should be unacceptable. This should hold both for publicly funded science (for which there is the additional moral requirement to give back to the public domain what was produced with taxpayers' money) and privately-funded science (where the need to turn a profit should be of lesser importance than the proper application of the scientifc method).
  • Dario Izzo on 08 Nov 10
     
    Same battle we are fighting since a few years....
Nina Nadine Ridder

Moon Dreams | North America > United States from AllBusiness.com - 0 views

www.allbusiness.com/...13948588-1.html

NASA space_tourism launches

shared by Nina Nadine Ridder on 24 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Nina Nadine Ridder on 24 Feb 10
     
    NASA aims to "create a healthy private-sector competition for transport to the space station". Through this the development of space tourism is enforced and an increase in the number of rocket launches should be expected. 
pacome delva

TeamParis-SynthEthics - 5 views

2009.igem.org/...TeamParis-SynthEthics.pdf

bio human_sciences ethics

shared by pacome delva on 27 Nov 09 - No Cached
  • pacome delva on 27 Nov 09
     
    This is an interesting report from a student in sociology, who worked with a group of scientists on a synthetic biology project for the competition IGEM (http://2009.igem.org/Main_Page). This is what happen when you mix hard and soft sciences. For this project they won the special prize for "Best Human Practices Advance". You can read the part on self or exploded governance (p.34). When reading parts of this reports, I thought that it could be good to have a stagiaire or a YGT in human science to see if we can raise interesting question about ethics for the space sector. There are many questions I'm sure, about the governance, the legitimacy of spending millions to go in space, etc...
Luís F. Simões

Boeing probes international market for human spacecraft - 1 views

spaceflightnow.com/...10cst100

human spaceflight commercial spaceflight

shared by Luís F. Simões on 11 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • The aerospace powerhouse is designing and testing systems for its CST-100 space capsule, a craft the company says could begin flying astronauts to low Earth orbit by 2015. It will launch on existing rockets to lessen development risk and costs.
  • "The spacecraft that we're designing is rocket-agnostic. It would be possible to sell this like a commercial airplane to countries who perhaps have a launch vehicle who would like to launch it in their own country."
  • Luís F. Simões on 11 Feb 11
     
    ...and hitting the news in the same day: A Rocket Built from U.S. and European Parts "A new rocket that would combine parts from NASA's canceled Ares I rocket as well as the Ariane 5 , a well-proven European satellite launcher, could provide a low-cost option for taking crew and cargo to the space station. The rocket proposal was announced this week by ATK, an aerospace and defense company that manufactures the solid rocket motors for NASA's space shuttles, and Astrium, the European company that makes the Ariane 5. They say the rocket, called Liberty, would be ready for flight by 2015." "Other commercial companies, including Boeing and Orbital Sciences Corporation, are looking to use low-end versions of the Atlas V to carry the capsules they are building. Liberty could carry any capsule at a cost less than that of the Atlas V, according to ATK." Look! Competition! :)
santecarloni

Breakthrough Propulsion Physics - 7 views

www.grc.nasa.gov/bpp

propulsion physics space

shared by santecarloni on 26 Jan 11 - Cached
  • santecarloni on 26 Jan 11
     
    The competition is open....
  • Luzi Bergamin on 26 Jan 11
     
    And what does one win in the end? Yet another unfeasible concept to be archived somewhere in a journal? Look at "Millis hypothetical drives"... Give me a break, for sure!!
  • Dario Izzo on 26 Jan 11
     
    I like the sentence "16 peer-reviewed journal articles, and an award-winning website (Warp-When), all for a total investment of less than $1.6M". This gives 100.000 dollars per peer-reviewed paper (we neglect the award-winning web-site under the assumption that is the easy part....). With these number the ACT in 2010 cashed 1.4 millions only in research papers making it an obvious good investment for the European Space Agency also in austerity times!!!
Luís F. Simões

Coding for Outer Space - A Programming Contest | Google Lunar X PRIZE - 1 views

www.googlelunarxprize.org/...er-space-a-programming-contest

programming competition

shared by Luís F. Simões on 24 May 11 - No Cached
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  • This weekend, programmers from all over Europe will be gearing up to compete in the 5'th Catalysts Coding Coding Contest (CCC'11). This year, the theme is Astronautics.
  • The competition is also open to online participants.
  • Individuals or teams of up to three people will be given a series of challenging problems that must be solved as quickly as possible.
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  • As a contestant, you must conceive of a proper solution and produce the correct output in order to advance to the next level. How you get there is completely up to you. You may use any computational means at your disposal.
  • Online contestants will not be eligible for prizes – they compete for glory alone.
  • LeopoldS on 25 May 11
     
    who is interested in following this a bit closer?
nikolas smyrlakis

YouTube - Piano stairs - TheFunTheory.com - Rolighetsteorin.se - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

fun thefuntheory.com

shared by nikolas smyrlakis on 20 Oct 09 - Cached
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 20 Oct 09
     
    Changing people's behaviour through fun. Looks a bit naive, but if there are any ideas http://www.thefuntheory.com there's an ongoing competition until the 15th of Nov.
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