Hi Andreas,
No, I don't have a local mentor (at least not now neither did I think of
it). I'll talk to a professor (that I know of) in my college's CS
department. My plan was to make some good volunteer contributions in
December and on the basis of those made contributions to ask for a
mentor. I totally understand the absence of full-time availability of
core scikit-learn developers on this.
Considering my past experience with SymPy's contribution with the help
of my mentor (in Finland), I think I can try to override the problem of
absence of local mentor (in case I don't get access to one) both of my
past projects were pure maths based. My only worry would be that I could
choose a project having good enough impact on scikit-learn 's development.
So the point is I'll try to make contribution and if I think I've made
good enough contributions I'll ask on this mail thread.
PS: Sorry, I mistakenly sent that mail to you, I intended to send that
mail to the list.
On Wednesday 01 November 2017 01:43 AM, Andreas Mueller wrote:
Hi Gaurav.
Do you have a local mentor? I think having a mentor that can guide you
during a thesis is very important.
You could get some feedback from the community for a contribution, but
that can be slow,
and is entirely on volunteer basis, so there is no guarantee that
you'll get the necessary feedback in time
to finish your thesis.
Mentoring a thesis - in particular without knowing you - is a serious
commitment, so I'm not sure someone
from inside the project will want to do this. I saw you already made a
contribution in https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/pull/10005
but that's a very different scope than doing what I expect would be
several month of work.
Best,
Andy
On 10/31/2017 03:31 PM, Gaurav Dhingra wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am a final year (5th year) undergraduate Applied Mathematics
student in India. I am thinking of doing my final year thesis by
doing some work (coding part) on scikit learn, so I was thinking if
anyone could tell me if there are available topics (not necessarily
names of those topics) that I could work on being an undergraduate
student? I would want to expand upon this in December when my exams
will be over. But in the mean time would want to take a step in that
direction by just knowing if there will be available topics that I
could work on.
It could be the case that available topics are not so easy for an
undergraduate, still in that case I would like to do some research on
the topics first.
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