Re: The Prize #5

[Michael Koppelman <lolife@bitstream.net>]

With all due respect, Tom, you keep talking about it as if it was a 
"maybe" and you talk about how we may be able to access the data via 
such and such and it all seems very tentative and vague right now. If 
you want to do this, and I won't encourage you one way or the other, 
you should lay it out a little more clearly, IMHO.

For example:

Which data set should we use? It seems everyone should use the exact 
same data set.
Where is the data and how do we get it?
What are the criteria for determining the winner?
What techniques are specifically not allowed?
What is the deliverable? A code base? A revised data set? An revised 
data acquisition process?
What happens if more than one group uses the same technique with the 
same (winning) results?
Who is the judge?
When does the contest start and end?
What if the TASS pipeline changes mid-contest? Do we use the old data 
or new data?

This is just a start. I think if you took 30 minutes and wrote up a 
Word doc, web page, email or something that was the "official contest 
kick-off", we would all be taking it more seriously. I'm not going to 
start working on this until I know what the deal is. Don't get me wrong 
-- if I had the time I would work on it contest or no contest, but I 
don't. I have to prioritize where my efforts go and I can't start a 
project that is so far fairly vaguely defined.

Cheers,
Michael Koppelman

On Oct 8, 2004, at 12:31 PM, Tom Droege wrote:

> With the exception of one person, there has not been much buzz about 
> the
> possible prize.  I am rethinking whether I will do it at all.  I have 
> some
> other thoughts as to what might be a better way to get work done on 
> the tass
> data.