Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Metric Learning Algorithms

2013-04-22 Thread Kenneth C. Arnold
Some gists: https://gist.github.com/kcarnold/5439917 https://gist.github.com/kcarnold/5439945 They are rather terribly documented, sorry. Input to such algorithms is usually given as: - a set of similarity and dissimilarity links, - relative comparisons (x is closer to y than w is to z), or -

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Metric Learning Algorithms

2013-04-22 Thread Mathieu Blondel
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Alexandre Gramfort < alexandre.gramf...@inria.fr> wrote: > > If people were interested in putting together a separate package in the > > style of the scikit collecting metric learning algorithms with a common > API, > > I would love to contribute to that too. > I'

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Metric Learning Algorithms (John Collins) (Robert McGibbon)

2013-04-22 Thread John Collins
It seems like there is already a manifold learning project in progress. These two topics are closely related. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~liuy/lle_isomap_metric.pdf -- Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of a

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Fwd: , Write a book on "Learning Scikit " for Packt Publishing

2013-04-22 Thread Robert Kern
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Pritesh Dsouza wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I am Pritesh D'souza, an Author Relations Executive with Packt Publishing. > We publish computer-related books on a wide variety of IT topics. > > We have a new book project, Learning SciKit and we are looking for skilled > auth

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Metric Learning Algorithms (John Collins)

2013-04-22 Thread John Collins
Hi Robert, Gotcha. Sorry I misunderstood. And ditto by the way. John On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:43 PM, < scikit-learn-general-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Send Scikit-learn-general mailing list submissions to > scikit-learn-general@lists.sourceforge.net > > To subscribe or uns

[Scikit-learn-general] Fwd: , Write a book on "Learning Scikit " for Packt Publishing

2013-04-22 Thread Pritesh Dsouza
Hi Guys, I am Pritesh D'souza, an Author Relations Executive with Packt Publishing. We publish computer-related books on a wide variety of IT topics. We have a new book project, _Learning SciKit_ and we are looking for skilled authors with the right expertise. When I came across this _blog

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSoC Proposal (was: optimization instead of brute force GridSearch)

2013-04-22 Thread Jasper Snoek
Hey there, I'm not on the mailing list actually, but I would love to be. Yeah, working in some compatibility between hyperopt and spearmint would be really great. I have found that I've been making more many promises on coding work than I can keep recently, so I won't promise anything, but I wou