On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 12:20:16PM +0000, Patrick Cando wrote: > Hi Ryan, Marcus and everyone else in the MLPack community, > > Permit me to start with a friendly introduction! My name is Patrick. I'm > currently coming to the end of my MSc in Data Science at Birkbeck College, > University of London. Prior to my MSc I was employed as a Support Engineer > working for a logistics software company in London, and have held roles for > the likes of Unilever and 20th Century Fox before that. I work mostly with > Python and C++, but still wake up at night in sweats, remembering days gone > past, whereby I've been lost for days in various jar files. > > I've been working with my supervisor Professor George Magoulas on some EA > implementation ideas, but given the popularity of the NEAT project, I > wanted to see if there was a possibility of working on the string utility > deliverable and integrate that as my MSc project? I think it could be a > great way for me to get to know the community and library better, as well > as submit something for the MSc, before trying to move on to some other > areas. > > My proposal for work needs to be submitted by April 15, so would love to > know if this is a possibility, as I'm not sure I'll be able to make it in > time for GSOC '19.
Hi Patrick, Thanks for getting in touch. Based on your history it sounds like you might not be interested in the Java bindings project then. :) The GSoC deadline is April 9th, so it doesn't seem like it would be too different than the April 15th deadline you're already aiming for. I guess, I'm not fully sure that I understand exactly what you want to do. Definitely the string processing utilities project is open and I'd love to see it completed, but it sounds like you need a project for your MSc. Since we don't yet know who will be accepted for the string processing utilities project (if anyone) we definitely can't promise a spot or anything, unfortunately. So like I said, maybe I don't understand the needs for your proposal of work for the MSc project, but I expect a lot of proposals for GSoC for this project, so maybe it is not the best idea? Let me know if I can clarify what I mean. Another project you may find interesting that I haven't heard too much about is the mlpack on resource-constrained devices project: https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas#mlpack-on-rpi-and-other-resource-constrained-devices Anyway, I'm sure we can work something out; I hope that my email is a step in the right direction. :) Thanks! Ryan -- Ryan Curtin | "I'm just going to shoot you once!" [email protected] | - Joseph Dunn _______________________________________________ mlpack mailing list [email protected] http://knife.lugatgt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlpack
