Hi David, Thanks for the update. I think that it is perfectly natural to take the better job offer if it comes early in the summer. You did the right thing. I also think that it is not realistic to try and do both. In addition, it is clearly stated in the GSOC rules that you shouldn't.
I am off course very disappointed, but I cannot blame you. I just hope that you'll learn interesting things during your internship, and that maybe you'll be able to teach them to us :). Have fun! PS: David: Ideally, in such situation, you shouldn't warn your former colleagues as soon as your new contract is signed. Warning early is a good way to mitigate the disappointment. PPS: Andreas: To answer your comment on whether that makes us look bad in the face of Google or PSF: yes it does, in some sens. I don't know how to avoid those situations: we want to choose good students, because that the best way to get good work, but these students get other good offers. It's a problem I have with post-docs too :). On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 08:12:09PM +0200, David Marek wrote: > Hi, > I am sorry, but I won't be able to work on gsoc. Many things happened > since I started working on my project. I now live in Switzerland and work > at Google. I received the offer after I started working on my project. I > am very interested in scikit-learn, I thought it would be possible to work > on it in my spare time, but I think that's not how gsoc should work and it > would be better if I step off. > I have implemented a working implementation of backpropagation, with > squared loss, cross-entropy loss and momentum term. I was able to create > gradient checking and assure that the sgd works right. When I was > experimenting with MNIST dataset I was able to get close to the expected > results, even though the computation took whole day. However, I don't have > the time now to continue with developing, I hope I'll be able to work > after my internship is over, but that will be over gsoc. > I am sorry for all problems this cause to you. I like the project, but > there is a difference between gsoc and actually working at Google office. > David > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Scikit-learn-general mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general -- Gael Varoquaux Researcher, INRIA Parietal Laboratoire de Neuro-Imagerie Assistee par Ordinateur NeuroSpin/CEA Saclay , Bat 145, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette France Phone: ++ 33-1-69-08-79-68 http://gael-varoquaux.info http://twitter.com/GaelVaroquaux ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
