[SciPy-Dev] GSoC'18 participation?

[Ralf Gommers]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 1:02 AM, Jordi Montes <jomsdev at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Last year I started implementing some methods for Randomized Numerical
> Linear Algebra (RNLA) in scipy.
> By now it is only the CountMin Sketch (clarkson_woodruff_transformation)
> for reducing the dimensionality of a vector space to an embedded space.
>
> 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.
>
> Would some other people be interesting in this?
>
>
> PS: I have a project called RandNLA <https://github.com/jomsdev/randNLA>
> 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.
>

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.

Would you be interested in mentoring then?

Ralf


> Thanks,
>
> Jordi.
>
> On 10 January 2018 at 10:42, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Who is interested in mentoring this year?
>>
>> I'm happy to do the admin again, but probably won't have time to mentor.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ralf
>>
>>
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