Hello Crunchers,
We’re back with your weekly dose of updates!
Crunch for Causality: Adia Lab Launches New Discovery Challenge
We’re thrilled to announce a new Global Crunch - the ADIA Lab Causal Discovery Challenge! This groundbreaking machine learning competition, hosted in partnership with ADIA Lab, focuses on Causal Discovery, a critical area in AI. This challenge addresses the limitations of current AI algorithms, aiming to push beyond correlation to understand true causation, with far-reaching implications across multiple fields.
Key points:
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$100,000 USD prize pool, with $40,000 for the overall winner
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Registrations are open since July 25, 2024
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Competition runs from August 1 to October 24, 2024
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Registration link: Home - CrunchDAO
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More info: ADIA Lab Causal Discovery Challenge
Ongoing Competition Update: DataCrunch
The DataCrunch Competition is in full swing! Here’s a quick look at the current leaderboards:
target_w Leaderboard update:
NB: (username / model name)
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overall-philip / giras-b (Spearman: +20.180%)
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xgilbert / model-1 (Spearman: +16.415%)
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coolplay / equity-ranker-1 (Spearman: +14.167%)
We’re excited to announce that the target_r has been resolved and scores are now available!
target_r Leaderboard:
NB: (username / model name)
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crowded-anirban / equity-ranker-1 (Spearman: +24.137%)
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tarandros / tarandros-model-1 (Spearman: +19.307%)
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permanent-nosa / equity-ranker-3 (Spearman: +15.391%)
Keep pushing those models, Crunchers! Both leaderboards are active and competitive.
Payouts: The last mile
Great news! We’ve received approval to resume buying stable coins. The compliance phase is complete, and we’re initiating the transaction process. We’ll update you once the transfer is finalized. Thank you for your patience and support during this process.
Weekly Changelogs Update
Our dev team has been busy improving your Crunch experience:
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Added ADIA Lab Causal Discovery Challenge card to home and featured pages
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UI improvements for better clarity and functionality
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Crunch-CLI Version 3.17.2 released with new features and bug fixes
For a full list of changes, visit our forum: 2024-W30 - New competition
Collective intelligence: Numerai Meetup in Tokyo
Members of our team recently attended the Numerai community meetup in Tokyo, Japan. This event brought together various AI and web3 projects, including our own, for a day of networking and knowledge sharing.
Came across any interesting data science events happening around the world? We’re open to attending or presenting, so let us know if you think we should be there.
What’s Next?
Get ready. August 1st marks the start of submissions for the ADIA Lab Causal Discovery Challenge. Submit in the first week for an additional reward (that we’ll disclose on the first day of the competition). Don’t miss out!
– Crunchers Be Crunchin’ while others be Guessin’