On Saturday 29 March 2008, Samee Zahur wrote: > Being an undergrad student interested in the field of data-intensive machine > learning techniques and applications, I am interested in implementing these > algorithms as a way of getting an exposure into this field.
Great. Nice to have you here. > Even though I have already applied to work in this SoC, I do have one > question though. When coding, how am I expected to test the > effectiveness of my algorithms without running it on a multicore > platform? I think the first step should be to make sure your algorithms run correct in a single core environment but on top of Hadoop. Currently we do not yet have the infrastructure to test the runtime performance of the implementations on large clusters. > What is the usual development platform used here? I guess every developer uses the platform that best fits his needs. Myself I am currently developing on a black MacBook that is running Debian Etch. As IDE I am still using Eclipse, for svn and ant the command line tools are sufficient for me. > And about the application for SoC, I selected the ASF as the mentoring > organisation - how do I make sure that someone from mahout reviews it? Those mahout developers that volunteered to mentor students will see your application automatically in the Google web app, don't worry about it. Yet it would be nice if you posted your application to the list as well, that way people who have no time for mentoring can still discuss your proposal and contribute that way. > Initially for the SoC, I want to implement LWLR, NN and PCA, Sounds like quite a bit of work for this summer. You are sure you can successfully implement all three algorithms? > but later beyond the GSoC I want to continue contributing to this project in > other ways I figure out once I gain familiarity with the scope of this > project. Good to hear. Grant already sent a posting on contributing even w/o Google funding. I would very much like to see students that remain in the project after the GSoC is over. Isabel -- It got to the point where I had to get a haircut or both feet firmly planted in the air. |\ _,,,---,,_ Web: <http://www.isabel-drost.de> /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ |,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_) (fL) IM: <xmpp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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