Hi Martin,
Thanks for you enthousiasm, and thanks for the Crowdbase instance. The
Q&A sites are definitively very useful. I am myself an occasional user of
a few of them. Scikit-learn is actually very well represented on the main
Q&A site for machine learn, http://metaoptimize.com/qa.
With regards to the new sklearn.crowdbase.com, I am not completely sure
that we are better off starting a site rather than benefiting from the
existing ones such as metaoptimize. The main benefits of using an
existing one is that it helps grows the comunity by drawing new users to
the scikit, and having people who don't use the scikit answer general
questions.
Also, in the long run, I'd really like to see an ecosystem of Python
scikit-learn like package for machine learning. Indeed, the scikit-learn
cannot answer all usecases, and it is healthy to see packaging growing to
complement it, or as incubators of new ideas. Having a Q&A website
completely dedicated to scikit-learn might not help convey the message
that the cake is big enough to be shared.
What do other people think?
Gaël
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 02:17:02PM -0500, Martin Laprise wrote:
> Hi All,
> I read a lot of really interesting discussion on the sklearn mailinglist
> lately. Unfortunately, it is hard to find specific answers in the archive,
> so I started an new Crowdbase instance (a Q&A tool ... a little bit like
> Stackoverflow) specifically for the sklearn developers and users. Feel free
> to ask (and answer !) questions here:
> sklearn.crowdbase.com
> Martin
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