[Scikit-learn-general] Proposal: Optimizing sparse linear models using coordinate descent and strong rules.

2012-04-04 Thread Immanuel B
Hello all, here finally is the draft for my proposal. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BG7Qmf3yepwkSCngRtJHQjWg2-tX-ltWxbV-goxXudA/edit Any remarks are greatly appreciated. best, Immanuel -- Better than sec? Nothing i

[Scikit-learn-general] SciPy 2012 - The Eleventh Annual Conference on Scientific Computing with Python

2012-04-04 Thread Warren Weckesser
SciPy 2012, the eleventh annual Conference on Scientific Computing with Python, will be held July 16–21, 2012, in Austin, Texas. At this conference, novel scientific applications and libraries related to data acquisition, analysis, dissemination and visualization using Python are presented. Attend

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSoC 2012 pre-application

2012-04-04 Thread Olivier Grisel
Le 4 avril 2012 20:19, Alexandre Gramfort a écrit : > hello vlad, > > hope you're doing better. > > My gut feeling reading the proposal is that you clearly know what you're > talking > about as you know well the code base but I think you should be more specific > about where the low hanging fruit

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSoC 2012 pre-application

2012-04-04 Thread Alexandre Gramfort
hello vlad, hope you're doing better. My gut feeling reading the proposal is that you clearly know what you're talking about as you know well the code base but I think you should be more specific about where the low hanging fruits are and which modules deserve some love in terms of speed. Alex

[Scikit-learn-general] PR reviewers wanted

2012-04-04 Thread Olivier Grisel
I'd like to have this merged ASAP not to wait for the code to drift to much. https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/pull/748 -- Olivier http://twitter.com/ogrisel - http://github.com/ogrisel -- Better than sec? No

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Reminder GSoC Student Application Deadline is: April 06 at 19:00 UTC

2012-04-04 Thread Olivier Grisel
Le 4 avril 2012 16:56, Vlad Niculae a écrit : > > On Apr 4, 2012, at 17:11 , Olivier Grisel wrote: > >> Detailed instructions and links on the wiki: >> >> https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/wiki/A-list-of-topics-for-a-google-summer-of-code-%28gsoc%29-2012 >> >> Please write the draft pro

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Reminder GSoC Student Application Deadline is: April 06 at 19:00 UTC

2012-04-04 Thread Vlad Niculae
On Apr 4, 2012, at 17:11 , Olivier Grisel wrote: > Detailed instructions and links on the wiki: > > https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/wiki/A-list-of-topics-for-a-google-summer-of-code-%28gsoc%29-2012 > > Please write the draft proposal on a google document or some wiki page > on your

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] [Off-topic] julia

2012-04-04 Thread Alejandro Weinstein
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Satrajit Ghosh wrote: > http://julialang.org/ This recent post by John Cook seems relevant: "Math languages vs. application languages" http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2012/04/02/why-scipy/ Alejandro.

[Scikit-learn-general] Reminder GSoC Student Application Deadline is: April 06 at 19:00 UTC

2012-04-04 Thread Olivier Grisel
Detailed instructions and links on the wiki: https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/wiki/A-list-of-topics-for-a-google-summer-of-code-%28gsoc%29-2012 Please write the draft proposal on a google document or some wiki page on your github account and share in the mailing list to discuss it wit

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] [Off-topic] julia

2012-04-04 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
yeap -- another example of such a "ideologically nice" new language is (was) Fortress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_%28programming_language%29 which I was told in 2005 would rule the scientific world in a few years ;-) On Wed, 04 Apr 2012, Mathieu Blondel wrote: >Creating a new langua

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSoC 2012 pre-application

2012-04-04 Thread Vlad Niculae
Hello guys, Unfortunately I have come down with the flu, and therefore missed a good amount of time to work on gsoc 2012 proposals. I know that there's not much time left for review, but here is my pre-proposal for a overall speedup and benchmarking project. https://docs.google.com/document/d/

[Scikit-learn-general] [scikit-learn] gmm.py API fix

2012-04-04 Thread Jaques Grobler
Apologies for not adding a subject in the last message. Regards, Jaques Grobler 2012/4/4 Jaques Grobler > Hey everyone- > > I've got a WIP PR out for fixing up gmm.py's API.. > Would greatly appreciate any inputs on this. > > The PR is here: > https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/pull/7

[Scikit-learn-general] [scikit-learn]

2012-04-04 Thread Jaques Grobler
Hey everyone- I've got a WIP PR out for fixing up gmm.py's API.. Would greatly appreciate any inputs on this. The PR is here: https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/pull/754 Thanks in advance Jaques Grobler -- Bet

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] sklearn.hmm ownership?

2012-04-04 Thread Olivier Grisel
Le 4 avril 2012 03:18, David Kadish a écrit : > I'm hoping to help out a little this summer, time permitting. If you're > taking ownership, then hopefully I'll be able to contribute something in a > month or two! Just to make it clear, I don't plan to "take ownership" of this module and nobody sh

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] [Off-topic] julia

2012-04-04 Thread Olivier Grisel
Le 4 avril 2012 07:31, Mathieu Blondel a écrit : > Creating a new language has its advantages (e.g., tailor the language to > scientific computing) but the main disadvantage is that they need to > recreate a complete ecosystem (plotting, interactive shell, ...). I wonder > if we could get most of