Contra ACT On The Extinction Tournament

In my last blog post, I discussed participating in a Forecasting Tournament through the University of Pennsylvania. One of the top rationalist blogs, Astral Codex Ten (ACT) wrote a post discussing findings from the tournament, specifically focusing on the issue of artificial intelligence (AI). The forecasting tournament focused on existential risks and asked about the… Continue reading Contra ACT On The Extinction Tournament

Well Classification using Extreme Gradient Boosting for Re-Claimed 2019 Untapped Datathon

Keenan Viney  ​I recently participated in the 2019 reClaim Data Competition: Alberta’s Aging Oil and Gas Infrastructure. There were two parts to this competition, predicting the initial production of oil wells based on there characteristics and, presented here, classifying the status of oil wells based on their characteristics. Below, I have included the script that… Continue reading Well Classification using Extreme Gradient Boosting for Re-Claimed 2019 Untapped Datathon