<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 1:02 AM, Jordi Montes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jomsdev@gmail.com" target="_blank">jomsdev@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi all,<br><br></div>Last year I started implementing some methods for Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra (RNLA) in scipy. <br></div>By now it is only the CountMin Sketch (clarkson_woodruff_<wbr>transformation) for reducing the dimensionality of a vector space to an embedded space. <br></div></div><div><br></div><div>I think that it would be interesting to add to scipy other methods for subspace embedding (like the Johnson-Lindenstrauss) and build some algorithms on top of it for things like least squeres or low rank approximation.</div><div><br></div><div>Would some other people be interesting in this?<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>PS: I have a project called <a href="https://github.com/jomsdev/randNLA" target="_blank">RandNLA</a> where I implemented some of the methods of RNLA. The idea is to implement only the most important methods of RNLA in scipy and have this other library for experimenting with new methods and APIs. That will let us not overloading scipy with features if people are not interested in them and focus on the ones that really brings value to the community.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That sounds like a good approach. Worth a discussion in a separate thread or as a draft enhancement proposal / GSoC idea to detail out which would be those most important methods.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Would you be interested in mentoring then?</div><div><br></div><div>Ralf</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Jordi.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 10 January 2018 at 10:42, Ralf Gommers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ralf.gommers@gmail.com" target="_blank">ralf.gommers@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hi all,<br><br></div>The GSoC schedule is a bit earlier than normal this year. The PSF is asking for ideas pages to be up and in decent shape by Jan 19th. So we'll need to come up with some content quick if we want to participate.<br><br></div>Who is interested in mentoring this year?<br><br></div>I'm happy to do the admin again, but probably won't have time to mentor.<br><br></div>Cheers,<br></div>Ralf<br><br></div>
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