On 4/6/15 6:19 AM, Gilles wrote:
> Hi Phil.
>
> On Sun, 05 Apr 2015 13:25:02 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote:
>> Thanks for the feedback and contributions!
>>
>> I added a disclaimer making it clear that the challenges / lessons
>> learned stuff was just one contributor's view.  The content is now
>> pretty much complete (unless someone has some awesome better example
>> I can swap in).  I would appreciate a review of the completed
>> optimization slides and both the final challenges and lessons
>> learned slides.  I will wait a few days to upload the slides so I
>> can clean them up some more and incorporate any feedback I get.
>>
>> Anyone who wants to review but does not want to fuss with
>> tex/beamer, shoot me a note and I will cut a pdf based on master
>> when I get the request.
>
> After this:
>
> ---CUT---
> public PAIR optimize(OptimizationData... optData)
> ---CUT---
>
> you could perhaps add one or two slides (to indicate the current
> state of affairs and what remains to be implemented for the next
> major release); something along the following lines:
>
> ---CUT---
> Decision: Refactor of all classes in "o.a.c.m.optim"
>
> * Phase out "OptimizationData"
> * Use "fluent" API
> * Separate optimization problem from optimization procedure
>
> New ideas (brought forward by our most recent committer, Evan Ward)
> experimented on least-squares optimizers:
> * LevenbergMarquardtOptimizer
> * GaussNewtonOptimizer
>
> New classes/interfaces in "o.a.c.m.fitting.leastsquares":
> * LeastSquaresProblem and LeastSquaresProblem.Evaluation
> * LeastSquaresOptimizer and LeastSquaresOptimizer.Optimum
> * LeastSquaresFactory
> * LeastSquaresBuilder
> * LevenbergMarquardtOptimizer
> * GaussNewtonOptimizer
> * AbstractEvaluation
> * ...
>
> Usage:
>
> final LeastSquaresProblem problem = LeastSquaresFactory.create( /*
> ... */ );
> final LeastSquaresOptimizer optim = new
> LevenbergMarquardtOptimizer( /* ... */ );
> final Optimum result = optim.optimize(problem);
>
> Yet to be done (before next major release?): Refactor all the
> other optimizers.
> ---CUT---
>
>
> Regards,
> Gilles

Thanks, Gilles!

I added two slides with only slight editing of the above.

Thanks again for reviewing.

Phil
>
>> Phil
>>
>> On 4/1/15 10:27 AM, Phil Steitz wrote:
>>> Starting with Thomas and Gilles' tex setup from FOSDEM 2013, I have
>>> started creating slides for my talk in a couple of weeks at
>>> Apachecon NA [1].  The basic idea is to combine an overview and
>>> quick examples with some discussion of the many design and
>>> implementation challenges that we have faced.  I have put the tex
>>> sources on github [2] and would appreciate any comments or just PRs
>>> there.  There is a make file (thanks, Thomas!) that creates a pdf
>>> from the sources and also has a clean target to clean up cruft. 
>>> You
>>> need to have beamer installed for the build to work.
>>>
>>> The content looks like too much for 50 mins, but I can fly through
>>> most of it, so don't be discouraged to provide more examples.  I
>>> can
>>> also swap out some of the ones that are there.  I have also
>>> obviously not made it look pretty yet.  Patches of all kinds
>>> welcome
>>> :)  My goal is to have the slides complete and uploaded to LF by
>>> the
>>> end of this weekend.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for review / feedback.  Its probably best to
>>> provide the feedback on github.  If we get into any code
>>> discussions, we can take things back here.
>>>
>>> Phil
>>> [1] http://sched.co/2P9O
>>> [2] https://github.com/psteitz/apachecon-2015-commons-math.git
>>>
>
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