On 4/5/2019 12:35 PM, Sarang Shrivastava wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>  
> I went through the proposal. It looks crisp. I had a few things which
> were still unclear to me and was not sure if we should mention these
> things in proposal or not ?
>
> 1) The statistical ML models can be implemented in python as it has
> enormous amount of library support for the same. We can then use this
> trained model to pass in scores for a new email via a plugin in perl.
> Do you think this is feasible ? Do you have bay alternative approach
> in mind by which we can do this ?

Sure, using python is feasible though I won't be able to help much with
python.  You'll be teaching me.

Can you restate your bay alternative question?

> 2) Lets say that we have mentioned some models in our proposal and
> they don't perform that well in the actual evaluation phase. In that
> case are we flexible enough to try new models on the fly which weren't
> even mentioned in the proposal ?

Sure but I would say to set your goals on what's in the proposal.  Time
management is the reason for most failures in the program.


Regards,

KAM

>
> Cheers,
> Sarang
>
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 6:44 AM Kevin A. McGrail <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     I could nitpick things here and there but to me, I really liked
>     the schedule. 
>
>     I might recommend you add something like, if accepted, the project
>     has agreed to support me and identified Kevin A. McGrail as a mentor.
>
>     Regards,
>     KAM
>
>     On 3/30/2019 12:00 PM, Shreyansh Shrivastava. wrote:
>>     Hello everyone,
>>     This is Shreyansh Shrivastava, Computer Science and Engineering
>>     student at NITK India. 
>>     I am interested in working on the below-mentioned project
>>     during GSoC 2019.
>>
>>     SpamAssassin Statistical classifier
>>     
>> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMDEV-268?jql=text%20~%20%22GSOC%202019%20SpamAssassin%22>
>>
>>     I have finalized the first draft of my proposal. Any further
>>     suggestions/changes in the proposal are highly appreciated.
>>     Please add comments to Google doc wherever you feel appropriate.
>>
>>     Gsoc 2019 Proposal
>>     
>> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/16rDbjhtUmJKDgmLL_76C0vVm6SYRPjhnc5w5R1cen04/edit?usp=sharing>
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     Shreyansh Shrivastava
>
>
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>     Member, Apache Software Foundation
>     Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project
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