[SciPy-Dev] GSoC'18 participation?

[Ralf Gommers]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 8:16 AM, Jordi Montes <jomsdev at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Ralf,
>
> I have been working on these methods before. I do not have any problem
> writing down a draft developing the idea and starting a discussion about
> the scope after.
>
> However, I had in mind to be the student and not the mentor.
>

Okay, that's great!

This is my last year as Master student so it is my last chance for
> participating in a GSoC.  I am sure that we can find good mentors for this
> initiative who are more expert in the field than myself.
>

If we can pair one domain expert with one of the core developers, that
would be a good mentoring config.

Ralf



>
> Jordi.
>
> On 10 January 2018 at 19:24, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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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