On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Arnaud Joly <arnaud4...@gmail.com> wrote
Welcome and congratulation to Issam, Hamzeh, Manoj and Maheshakya!
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> Arnaud
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> On 23 Apr 2014, at 07:51, Robert Layton <robertlay...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks Gaël. The fact we received four students is testament to the hard
> work everyone has done before me!
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> On 23 April 2014 15:46, Gael Varoquaux <gael.varoqu...@normalesup.org>wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems that the information is now out. I'd like to welcome the four
>> students that were accepted for the GSoC this year:
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>> * Issam: Extending Neural networks
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>> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2014/issamou/5733935958982656
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>> * Hamzeh: Sparse Support for Ensemble Methods
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>> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2014/hamsal/5709068098338816
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>> * Manoj: Making Linear models faster
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>> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2014/manojkumar/5673522948997120
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>> * Maheshakya: Locality Sensitive Hashing
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>> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2014/maheshakya/5754903989321728
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>> Welcome to all of you. Your submissions were excellent, and you
>> demonstrated a good will to integrate in the project, with it's social
>> and coding dynamics. It is a privilege to work with you.
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>> I was especially pleased when I saw that some of you were helping other
>> GSoC candidates to improve their submissions. Being able to work as a
>> group, and being above competition is a testimonial of quality people!
>>
>> This is only a start. Now summer is coming and you will have to work your
>> way through your project. Remember, these projects are challenging by
>> definition, as we don't accept simple projects. But the number one cause
>> of failure of projects (whether they be GSoC projects or in the industry)
>> is not technical, but rather failure to communicate and failure to
>> regulate goals accordingly to difficulties and resources. Your mentors,
>> and the whole team of scikit-learn developers, are there to help you.
>> They are drowning under a variety of requests, so you'll need to be good
>> at communication, but they are also your allies.
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>> We did not expect to have four slots, rather two or three, based on the
>> previous years. We did consider that we had four excellent proposals, and
>> were facing a difficult choice. I am really happy that we could take all
>> four of you. I just need to stress that this is a chance and a privilege.
>>
>>
>> I'd also like to thank all the mentors, Alex, Arnaud, Daniel, James,
>> Jaidev, Olivier, Robert and Vlad. It is a lot of work to mentor and
>> mentors are not only making it possible for great code to enter
>> scikit-learn, but also shaping a future generation of scikit-learn
>> contributors.
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>> Gaël
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Welcome folks! This is going to be a great summer.
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