This is really sad indeed. I did not know Raghav personally, but I got to know the engineer in him through his work with the Scikit Learn project. Almost every time I looked up an issue or tried to find a PR for a lacking feature, there he was, either working on it himself or starting a discussion and motivating others to work on it. His enthusiasm and dedication to improving Scikit Learn was, and will remain, an inspiration for all contributors.The community has no doubt lost a talented engineer and I cannot even begin to imagine the loss for those he touched personally. My sincere condolences to his family and friends.
On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Brown J.B. via scikit-learn < scikit-learn@python.org> wrote: > This is truly, truly sad news. > Leaving the home country you grew up in to find your way in a new language > and culture takes considerable effort, and to thrive at it takes even more > effort. > He was to be commended for that. > > I think many of us knew of his enthusiasm for the project and benefited > greatly from it. > May his family and friends know of his contribution, and may he rest > peacefully. > > J.B. Brown > > 2017-10-06 21:04 GMT+09:00 Gael Varoquaux <gael.varoqu...@normalesup.org>: > >> Raghav was a core contributor to scikit-learn. Venkat Raghav Rajagopalan, >> or @raghavrv -as we knew him- appeared out of the blue and started >> contributing early 2015. From Chennai, he was helping us make scikit-learn >> a better library. As often in open source, he was working with people that >> he had never met in person, to improve a tool used by the whole world. He >> successfully completed a Google summer of code for the project that year, >> and then was hired as a full time engineer to work on the project in Paris. >> Raghav was excited to join the scikit-learn team. When he became core >> contributor, in 2016 he said that it was a highlight of his year. >> >> In Paris, we got to know him and enjoy him. Raghav was a very >> enthusiastic and easygoing person. It was a delight to have him around. For >> scikit-learn, he was a huge driver. He tackled a large number of issues, >> include tedious and difficult ones such as revamping our cross-validation >> API, multiple-metrics support in grid-search, or 32bit support in various >> models. >> >> Raghav had left India to live an adventure in a new culture. Curiosity >> and goal-driven, he had found his own way. He was growing fast, moving from >> student to expert, on his way to a bright future. >> >> Raghav passed away a month ago. We have been in shock and sorrow here in >> Paris. He will be deeply missed. >> >> Gael Varoquaux and Alexandre Gramfort >> _______________________________________________ >> scikit-learn mailing list >> scikit-learn@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-learn >> > > > _______________________________________________ > scikit-learn mailing list > scikit-learn@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scikit-learn > >
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