Hi Ryan. Thank you! Yes you're right about the financial community being performance oriented, and I felt my experience would be relevant to mlpack.
Great, I will start with #1152: FastMKS test, and get back when I have something for you to look at. Thanks again! Sunanda On Mon, Feb 4, 2019, 7:46 PM Ryan Curtin <[email protected] wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 07:31:19PM -0500, Sunanda Gamage wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > My name is Sunanda and I'm a PhD student at Western University, Canada. > My > > research is on using machine learning methods for network traffic > analysis > > (detecting intrusions/ other events). Before grad school, I was a > developer > > for 3 years writing back-ends of stock exchange systems in C++. Writing > > elegant and performant C++ code is something I love, and I can see that > > mlpack is a code base full of such code. > > Hi Sunanda, > > Welcome to the community! Great to have someone with your experience on > board. I think that the finance and stock exchange communities value > efficient implementations about the same as we do, so I think we are on > the same page. :) > > > I'd like to be a contributor to this project, and I have read the pages > on > > getting involved, gsoc, GSoC Ideas and Design Guidelines. I've also > > compiled and run some example code and gone through some of the API > > documentation. > > > > I was going to get started with a "good first issue", but many have been > > taken up by developers who have not commented on them in a few months. Is > > it OK if I work on one if these and try to open a pull request? I was > > thinking issue #1152: the fastmks test. > > I'd love to see the FastMKS test finished. There's already a PR open > for it: #1356. But it hasn't been touched in a long time. You could > start there and finish it out, or, you could write the code from > scratch. Either is just fine with me. We're getting pretty close to > fully finished with #1152; I'm hopeful that the last few tests get > merged in the next months. > > If you put together some code, I'll review it when I have a chance. > > Thanks! > > Ryan > > -- > Ryan Curtin | "I like this game." > [email protected] | - Coach >
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