Hi GSOCers (Vlad and Immanuel), The GSOC is getting to an end, and we are in the last rush. It's really a pitty, as the projects seem to be entering a super-productive phase in which pull request with significant speed ups are popping up.
As we want to benefit as much as possible of the remaining time, I'd like to enourage the students to be as pragmatic as possible: focus on getting the speed ups in the scikit. For Vlad, I would say that small targetted improvements as you have started are absolutely the right thing. For Immanuel, merging in the strong rules, as you are currently doing, is definitely the right thing. Time is not for large plans and grand ideas. All the seconds that we can squeeze out of the benchmarks before the end of the GSOC are a benefit. The second point that I wanted to make, is that I would really like you to blog about your project. Give us a status update with the big picture: what harder than expected? Was there anything easier than expected? What are the big achievements? What do you want to do in the time left? Just give the big lines, not need to go in fine details. But do this on a blog, not as a reply to this email, this is better to reach a wider audience. Remember Google and PSF may be reading these blogs. And besides, its a PSF requirement to blog about the project weekly. I haven't exactly read weekly blog posts. As they say, 'go go team'! Gael PS: yeah, I know: http://iamgiant.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/2759213384_a13acd4f9e_o.jpg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
