If you don't have any specific project idea, James Bergstra is looking for
a student for his hyperparameter optimization project. See the thread "GSoC
Proposal (was: optimization instead of brute force GridSearch)".
Mathieu
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 5:20 AM, Andreas Mueller
<amuel...@ais.uni-bonn.de>wrote:
> Hi Jim.
> Thanks a lot for your interest. I think the project still applies.
> It is indeed necessary that you contributed previously to apply as a GSoC
> candidate.
> You should also check if you being a post-graduate student makes any
> difference. I'm not entirely sure what the GSoC conditions are.
>
> If you want to apply, the best thing would be if you started working on
> some of the easy issues in the issue tracker.
> If you don't find anything suitable, don't hesitate to ask.
> It is really important that possible mentors see you code and interact
> with you.
>
> I am not sure who would be a mentor for that project. Currently we are a
> bit short. But I'm sure we'll find someone.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
>
> On 04/15/2013 10:14 PM, Jim Holmström wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> my name is Jim Holmström and I am currently a postgraduate in machine
> learning at KTH, Sweden (Bachelor in Engineering physics). I have been
> interested in contributing to sklearn for a while now. The GSoC seems to be
> a really good way to get started.
>
> I currently have no proposals of my own but I looked into the list of
> topics<https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/wiki/A-list-of-topics-for-a-Google-Summer-of-Code-%28GSOC%29-2013#improve-gmm>and
> found ``Improve GMM'' to be really interesting, is it still applicable?
>
> I started by adding myself as a possible candidate alongside the topic,
> but what is the next course of action? I haven't contributed any code to
> sklearn at all. Do I understand it correctly that it is almost a
> requirement before a GSoC with sklearn? Anyhow, I'm reading through the
> developer docs and are scoping for a possible contribution. Should I start
> writing a proposal for ``Improve GMM'' or contact the possible mentors for
> further instructions or just wait a bit?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jim Holmström
>
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