From brianhray at gmail.com Tue Nov 11 16:17:55 2014 From: brianhray at gmail.com (Brian Ray) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 09:17:55 -0600 Subject: [ChiPy-announce] [ANN] Thursday's ChiPy Meeting at Loyola Message-ID: We are excited to meet for the first time at Loyola. We have some great talks lined up. Come enjoy food and soft drinks. ChiPy will buy first round after. I am fairly certain this will be our best meeting ever. RSVP here-> http://chipy.org *When:* Nov. 13, 2014, 7 p.m. *Where:* > Loyola's downtown campus > > Kasbeer Hall > 15th floor of Corboy Law Center > > 25 E Pearson St. > > Chicago, IL 60611 > Topics - *Hidden Markov Models to improve activity recognition in patients with spinal cord injury* (0:15:00 Minutes) By: Asma Mehjabeen Fitness tracking is great for calories and steps, but similar sensors are capable of reporting much more about how we move throughout the day. This is especially important in assessing the quality of movement for those with limited mobility. Doctors often want to know more detail about patient behavior after therapy to select and adjust the appropriate intervention. Using machine learning on wearable accelerometer signals, we estimate the activities patients with incomplete spinal cord injury are performing. By combining windowed classifier estimates over time using a hidden markov model, we show how error rates can be significantly decreased, which brings more detailed assessments of patient activity closer to a clinical reality. - *Innate learning: training the brain before the eyes open* (0:15:00 Minutes) By: Isaac Adorno Amorphous, blob-like patterns of neural activity form and move over the eye during visual development in animals. Why do such patterns exist? We show that these patterns are this way to better prepare the visual system for natural vision. Essentially, these are movies played in the eyes to refine the visual system before the eyes even open. We use python to model the developing visual system, produce an efficient code based on those patterns, and show how that code matches what is seen biologically. In this way, we show that during your early development you are learning from innately generated patterns - a unique twist in the debates of nature and nurture. RSVP Here -> http://chipy.org -- Brian Ray @brianray (773) 669-7717 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From liza at checkio.com Wed Nov 19 01:19:49 2014 From: liza at checkio.com (Liza Avramenko) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 00:19:49 -0000 Subject: [ChiPy-announce] ChicagoPy Message-ID: Hi PyPeople, I wanted to run by you CheckiO - the game for PyCoders and an open platform for AI gaming. We see a lot of coders using it to pump up their skills by solving and seeing solutions of others, or to teach others to show that coding is fun, or to create and publish their own AI games so that all the world competes at the best algorithms for you challenges. Would love to hear your feedback or simply see CheckiO being helpful to you in any possible ways. Liza Avramenko CEO, CheckiO [image: Inline image 7] [image: Inline image 6] [image: Inline image 3] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From liza at checkio.com Fri Nov 21 19:53:05 2014 From: liza at checkio.com (Liza Avramenko) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 18:53:05 -0000 Subject: [ChiPy-announce] ChicagoPy In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Brian, And yes, CheckiO is built on Python. We also use PostgreSQL, Django, Backbone.js, Redis, Twisted, ExtJS. Right now we are woking on using Docker for running user solutions there. It will allow us to run more kinds of different challenges. We are also using GitHub to store our missions there. So every mission is an independent GitHub repository and any user can either propose their own changes or create their own missions on CheckiO by forking any of repositories. So if anybody has a fun idea about some kind of algorithmic challenge don't hesitate to post it - you'll see some of the best Pythonistas helping you improve that algorithm. Liza Avramenko CEO, CheckiO [image: Inline image 7] [image: Inline image 6] [image: Inline image 3] On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Liza Avramenko wrote: > Hi PyPeople, > > I wanted to run by you CheckiO > - > the game for PyCoders and an open platform for AI gaming. We see a lot of > coders using it to pump up their skills by solving and seeing solutions of > others, or to teach others to show that coding is fun, or to create and > publish their own AI games so that all the world competes at the best > algorithms for you challenges. > > Would love to hear your feedback or simply see CheckiO being helpful to > you in any possible ways. > > > > > Liza Avramenko > > CEO, CheckiO > > > > [image: Inline image 7] > [image: > Inline image 6] > [image: > Inline image 3] > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: