I'm eligible for GSoC as far as I know.
Finally got time to read through the papers and the hyperparameter
optimization sure do look like a really interesting project, I'm most
definitely interested to candidate.
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Mathieu Blondel <math...@mblondel.org>wrote:
> 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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