Virtual-Hackathon

Participate in virtual hackathon for scholars of Secure and Private AI Scholarship Challenge from Facebook conducted by #sg_hackathon_orgnizrs. Come join us let's for a fun filled weekend of coding and competing against each other.

When is it?

Hackathon starts => Saturday 00:01am GMT to Monday 11:59am GMT .
Coding Time => Saturday 00:01am GMT to Sunday 11:59pm GMT.
Commiting Kernel => Sunday 00:01am GMT to Monday 11:59am GMT.

Where is it?

Hackathon Blossom: https://www.kaggle.com/spaics/hackathon-blossom-flower-classification
Hackathon Auto_matic: https://www.kaggle.com/c/virtual-hack
Hackathon Sentimento: https://www.kaggle.com/c/virtual-hackathon
Hackathon Sentimento_v2: https://www.kaggle.com/c/nlp-hack
Hackathon Forecast: https://www.kaggle.com/c/web-traffic-time-series-forecasting/overview

How to participate?

Use this form to sign up. You can participate alone or as part of a team of up to 4 individuals. Only 1 member of the team needs to fill the form. http://bit.ly/hackathon-signup. Please join the #sg_hackathon-orgnizrs channel to get the announcements and ask questions.

How will submissions be evaluated?

Submissions will be evaluated by members of the community with a background in DS, DL or ML on the following criteria:

Accuracy and Loss on Training Data,
Accuracy and Loss on Validation Data
Accuracy on Test data,
Model Efficiency,
Time of Commit.

When will results be announced?

On Thursday.

RULES

Teams should be made up of at most 4 individuals.
Kernels must be committed before Monday @ 11:59am GMT. No points are gained for submitting before this time but all submissions after this time will not be accepted. Any teams that make any changes to their kernel after this time will be disqualified
Please include short description/summary of your

Model architecture and hyperparameters.
and Why you used these models. should be included at the top of your kernel (1st or 2nd cell). This will be give our judges an idea about what you have done.

Please check in every 8hrs in the #sg_hackathon-orgnizrs, so we know you are still there :). Feel free to send pictures of you or your team working on the hackathon, send text messages or motivational messages to motivate your peers.

Some Statistics:

For about 80% of our participants, this was the first hackathon they have ever taken part in.
For 95% of our participants this was their first time taking part in a virtual hackathon (This was really motivating to the organizers)
The winners for the 5 hackathons (from first to fifth): @Venkata Rathnam Muralidharan @Khush @Ronit @Abhishek Lalwani and @Ronit

Here are the most commonly asked question :

1. Is there any restriction to frameworks ?

Yes since this scholarship is related to pytorch we are restricting the use with PYTORCH only

2. Can we use colab for training since my model is taking a lot of time with kaggle kernel?

You can work on Google colab then download your notebook and upload the notebook in your kaggle kernel . We want all the kernels to be under that dataset for easy access. Please upload your notebook to the kaggle kernel before the submission time and make it private till the submission time.

3. Do we have to make the kernel public?

Please, DO NOT make your kernel public while the hackathon is still running. DO make it public after Sunday 23:59 GMT. Any modification to kernel code after that time counts as disqualification.

4. What if am sleeping the time for making the kernel public ?

You can make your kernel public when you wake up (on Monday) but please don't add any modification to the kernel after the submit time as that time counts as disqualification. And if you are working on Google Colab , please upload your notebook to the kaggle kernel before the submission time to be on the safe side.

5. How can I add my team members ?

When you create a new kernel in the right hand side you will find settings there will be an option for sharing click on that and add your team members as collaborators. Please refer to the gifs of this article for more info https://towardsdatascience.com/kaggle-for-beginners-getting-started-75decb43c0c0

6. Can we participate in the hackathon after the hackathon starts?

Yes the hackathon is open for the whole weekend so you guys can fill in the form and start it now also https://forms.gle/sX3sUDSE85xH4PS18

Judges: George Christopoulos, Amitrajit Bose,Yemissi B. Kifouly, Fairoza Amira Binti Hamzah, Arka Chakraborty,Anna Unger

Organizers: Ngong Ivoline,Munira Omar, Mushrifah Hasan, Mahfuza Humayra Mohona and Amina Assouane

Participation is not mandatory for Secure and Private AI Challenge scholars.

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