Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSoC 2015 Proposal: Multiple Metric Learning

2015-03-26 Thread Raghav R V
Hey Gael, I am sorry that I missed this comment of yours - > > 1. The design of multiple metric support is important and would bring an immense usability gain. > But it will also require a framework of its own. I would say that this is to be considered in a second step. Could you expand a littl

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSoC 2015 Proposal: Multiple Metric Learning

2015-03-25 Thread Raghav R V
Hi all, thanks a lot for the comments! I've just edited/formatted my prop. based on all of your comments... https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/wiki/GSoC-2015-Proposal:-Multiple-metric-support-for-CV-and-grid_search-and-other-general-improvements Only thing to be done is to plan what I

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSoC 2015 Proposal: Multiple Metric Learning

2015-03-25 Thread Andreas Mueller
On 03/24/2015 07:39 PM, Vlad Niculae wrote: > Hi Raghav, hi everyone, > > If I may, I have a very high-level comment on your proposal. It clearly shows > that you are very involved in the project and understand the internals well. > However, I feel like it’s written from a way too technical per

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSoC 2015 Proposal: Multiple Metric Learning

2015-03-25 Thread Raghav R V
Hi Vlad!! Thanks a tonne for the detailed review of my proposal. :) > Your proposal contains implementation details, but little or no discussion of why each change is important and how it impacts users Yes, I'll add a section discussing the motivation of the various deliverable. (which actually

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSoC 2015 Proposal: Multiple Metric Learning

2015-03-24 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 07:39:17PM -0400, Vlad Niculae wrote: > 1. The design of multiple metric support is important and would bring an > immense usability gain. But it will also require a framework of its own. I would say that this is to be considered in a second step. G -

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSoC 2015 Proposal: Multiple Metric Learning

2015-03-24 Thread Vlad Niculae
Hi Raghav, hi everyone, If I may, I have a very high-level comment on your proposal. It clearly shows that you are very involved in the project and understand the internals well. However, I feel like it’s written from a way too technical perspective. Your proposal contains implementation detai

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSoC 2015 Proposal: Multiple Metric Learning

2015-03-24 Thread Joel Nothman
I agree with everything Andy says. I think the core developers are very enthusiastic to have a project along the lines of "Finish all the things that need finishing", but it's very impractical to do so much context switching both for students and mentors/reviewers. One of the advantages of GSoC is

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSoC 2015 Proposal: Multiple Metric Learning

2015-03-24 Thread Raghav R V
Hi Andy, Thanks a lot for your feedback... I'll update my proposal wiki based on your guidelines and also submit the same to melange too by today! Thanks, R On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 3:10 AM, Andreas Mueller wrote: > Hi Raghav. > > I feel that your proposal lacks some focus. > I'd remove the

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSoC 2015 Proposal: Multiple Metric Learning

2015-03-23 Thread Andreas Mueller
Hi Raghav. I feel that your proposal lacks some focus. I'd remove the two: Mallow's Cp for LASSO / LARS Implement built in abs max scaler, Nesterov's momentum and finish up the Multilayer Perceptron module. And as discussed in this thread probably also Forge a self sufficient ML tutorial base

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSoC 2015 Proposal: Multiple Metric Learning

2015-03-23 Thread Andreas Mueller
can you please also upload it to melange? On 03/22/2015 08:52 PM, Raghav R V wrote: 2 things : * The subject should have been "Multiple Metric Support in grid_search and cross_validation modules and other general improvements" and not multiple metric learning! Sorry for that! * The link was n

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSoC 2015 Proposal: Multiple Metric Learning

2015-03-23 Thread Raghav R V
Thanks for all the good comments!! I'll replace that section of my proposal with some other more important work! :) On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 7:53 PM, Matthieu Brucher < matthieu.bruc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > For practical purposes, I currently know of 2 (3?) sklearn books > > published with PACKT.

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSoC 2015 Proposal: Multiple Metric Learning

2015-03-23 Thread Matthieu Brucher
> For practical purposes, I currently know of 2 (3?) sklearn books > published with PACKT. There is also an OReilly book coming up: > http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920030515.do 2 general books, 1 cookbook and I think there is another one half-written as well. Didn't know about O'Reilly, good

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSoC 2015 Proposal: Multiple Metric Learning

2015-03-23 Thread Andreas Mueller
On 03/22/2015 07:57 PM, Raghav R V wrote: > > 2. Given that there is a huge interest among students in learning > about ML, do you think it would be within the scope of/beneficial to > skl to have all the exercises and/or concepts, from a good quality > book (ESL / PRML / Murphy) or an academi

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSoC 2015 Proposal: Multiple Metric Learning

2015-03-22 Thread Raghav R V
2 things : * The subject should have been "Multiple Metric Support in grid_search and cross_validation modules and other general improvements" and not multiple metric learning! Sorry for that! * The link was not available due to the trailing "." (dot), which has been fixed now! Thanks R On Mon,

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSoC 2015 Proposal: Multiple Metric Learning

2015-03-22 Thread Raghav R V
> > 1. the link is broken > Ah! Sorry :) - https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/wiki/GSoC-2015-Proposal:-Multiple-metric-support-for-CV-and-grid_search-and-other-general-improvements . 2. that sounds quite difficult and unfortunately conducive to cheating > Hmm... Should I then simply op

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSoC 2015 Proposal: Multiple Metric Learning

2015-03-22 Thread Ronnie Ghose
1. the link is broken 2. that sounds quite difficult and unfortunately conducive to cheating On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Raghav R V wrote: > Hi, > > 1. This is my proposal for the multiple metric learning project as a wiki > page - > https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/wiki/GSoC-