Re: [Scikit-learn-general] mean square error

2012-02-01 Thread Vlad Niculae
Sent from my iPod On 01.02.2012, at 15:43, Mathieu Blondel math...@mblondel.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:10 PM, David Warde-Farley warde...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote: I might suggest mean over training examples but sum over output dimensions, if there is more than one. Currently,

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Announce: scikit-learn 0.10

2012-01-27 Thread Vlad Niculae
sorry, I don't have a Windows system at the moment, if you have a VM could you do it? If you're not set up either, I'll do it in a day or two. Best, Vlad Sent from my iPod On 27.01.2012, at 12:29, Fabian Pedregosa fabian.pedreg...@inria.fr wrote: @vene: do you have time to make the windows

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Announce: scikit-learn 0.10

2012-01-27 Thread Vlad Niculae
My pleasure, I'm sorry for the delay! Sent from my iPod On 27.01.2012, at 20:49, Vincent Dubourg vincent.dubo...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Vlad! After a slight upgrade of both numpy and scipy I managed to get a brand new working 0.10 sklearn! On 27/01/2012 17:32, Gael Varoquaux wrote: On

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Strange install instructions

2012-01-18 Thread Vlad Niculae
I am quoting from http://docs.python.org/distutils/builtdist.html By default the installer will display the cool “Python Powered” logo when it is run, but you can also supply your own 152x261 bitmap which must be a Windows .bmpfile with the --bitmap option. I'm assuming -b is short for

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Strange install instructions

2012-01-18 Thread Vlad Niculae
On Jan 18, 2012, at 20:23 , Andreas wrote: On 01/18/2012 07:19 PM, Vlad Niculae wrote: I am quoting from http://docs.python.org/distutils/builtdist.html By default the installer will display the cool “Python Powered” logo when it is run, but you can also supply your own 152x261 bitmap

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSoC 2012

2012-01-18 Thread Vlad Niculae
On Jan 19, 2012, at 00:23 , Gael Varoquaux wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 07:37:12PM +0900, Mathieu Blondel wrote: It would be nice if you could make a few contributions to scikit-learn before the application process starts. This will allow you to familiarize with the code base, us to

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] sparse_encode implementation

2012-01-09 Thread Vlad Niculae
Short answer, no. sparse_encode is just a wrapper for funcionality that existed in the scikit already (lasso, omp), with support for parallelization. We couldn't embed SPAMS anyway, because of the license IIRC. A benchmark would be interesting indeed. Vlad On 09.01.2012, at 18:02, Ian

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] test time performance and sparse - dense dot products

2012-01-08 Thread Vlad Niculae
Olivier's solution sounds good. And it's easy to implement too :) @pprett can you confirm it solves your perf issue on your data? I'm talking without actually looking at the code but as long as after fit, the array will only be needed in F-order, this feels right. However afaik

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Putting SVC and NuSVC into the same class

2012-01-08 Thread Vlad Niculae
A bit off topic but since we're talking about work on the SVM module, I noticed something wrong with the docs. http://scikit-learn.org/dev/modules/svm.html#tips-on-practical-use The scaling part makes reference to some Cookbook (I don't know what this is, it probably died before I joined you

[Scikit-learn-general] Development doc not being updated

2012-01-06 Thread Vlad Niculae
Hello all, especially Fabian. I've noticed that the new examples still don't show up in scikit-learn.org/dev/, in particular the multi-label one that I'd like to show off. Can somebody address this? Sorry if this should be discussed somewhere else. Best, Vlad

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Development doc not being updated

2012-01-06 Thread Vlad Niculae
On Jan 6, 2012, at 17:39 , Olivier Grisel wrote: 2012/1/6 Vlad Niculae zephy...@gmail.com: Hello all, especially Fabian. I've noticed that the new examples still don't show up in scikit-learn.org/dev/, in particular the multi-label one that I'd like to show off. Can somebody address

[Scikit-learn-general] Verbose joblib output

2012-01-06 Thread Vlad Niculae
Hello everybody, This is something that has been bugging me for a while. I am not exactly sure what entity is printing these messages (I assume joblib) but when doing a verbose CV with n_jobs=1, the progress report looks something like: [Parallel(n_jobs=1)]: Done job 20 | elapsed: 28.3s

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] sklearn.test() weirdness

2012-01-05 Thread Vlad Niculae
On Jan 5, 2012, at 23:45 , Fabian Pedregosa wrote: and that was quite convenient for testing on systems on which nosetest fails (windows). Hi Fabian Could you please be more specific regarding this point, since as a former Windows user, I find that I don't know what you mean. On topic, I

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] using string features for classification

2012-01-03 Thread Vlad Niculae
On Jan 3, 2012, at 17:02 , Olivier Grisel wrote: 2012/1/3 Lars Buitinck l.j.buiti...@uva.nl: We probably need to extend the sklearn.feature_extraction.text package to make it more user friendly to work with with pure categorical features occurrences: I'm not sure this belongs in

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] December sprint planning (NIPS edition)

2011-12-08 Thread Vlad Niculae
On Dec 8, 2011, at 20:11 , David Warde-Farley wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 03:13:53AM +0900, Mathieu Blondel wrote: Hi, Thanks heaps Gael. I'm planning to contact the guy by tomorrow. I think it would be easier for him if we don't contact him individually. I can make the reservations

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Image denoising example

2011-12-07 Thread Vlad Niculae
I think I know what happened here. An upstream change in scipy removed scipy.lena() and left only scipy.misc.lena(). I wonder if this affects other examples as well. I will try to check and patch this soon. Vlad On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Gael Varoquaux gael.varoqu...@normalesup.org

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Specify rather than learn sparse coding dictionary?

2011-12-06 Thread Vlad Niculae
On Dec 6, 2011, at 11:04 , Gael Varoquaux wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 09:41:56AM +0200, Vlad Niculae wrote: This is actually exactly how the module is designed. Great design! I should have looked at it closer before writing my mail. We have BaseDictionaryLearning which only implements

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Specify rather than learn sparse coding dictionary?

2011-12-06 Thread Vlad Niculae
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Alexandre Gramfort alexandre.gramf...@inria.fr wrote: I do confirm that Lasso and LassoLars both minimize 1/2n || y - Xw || + alpha ||w||_1 and that the n should not be present in the sparse coding context. it means :

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Issue with gaussian processes

2011-11-29 Thread Vlad Niculae
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Alexandre Gramfort alexandre.gramf...@inria.fr wrote: Hi Alex, I would say: if it makes sense to fit a GP with only one point:    it should be fixed Note that even though it might not make any sense in practice, unless there's a mathematical reason that I'm

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] A new jenkins integration server is online for scikit-learn

2011-11-28 Thread Vlad Niculae
Hi Olivier, This is very cool. Could we plot average test coverage as well, similar to pep8? Is there a way to subscribe to the build reports, like with the buildbot? I signed up but still couldn't find one. Vlad On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 4:26 AM, Olivier Grisel olivier.gri...@ensta.org wrote:

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] scikit test failure on osx

2011-11-27 Thread Vlad Niculae
Hello Massimo I believe this is an issue others, including me, have faced: https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/issues/445 https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/issues/330 I reverted to the stable versions of numpy and scipy from their website, and the bleeding-edge scikit-learn,

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] NLP course at Stanford available for enrollment

2011-11-21 Thread Vlad Niculae
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Lars Buitinck l.j.buiti...@uva.nl wrote: 2011/11/21 Jacob VanderPlas vanderp...@astro.washington.edu: I would recommend these: I'm currently taking the Machine Learning course, taught by Andrew Ng, which will be offered again in January. It's been a great intro

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] December sprint planning (NIPS edition)

2011-11-14 Thread Vlad Niculae
Gael, can you give me the info (URL and telephone number) for the guest house? I would like to call them to make a reservation for me. I can make a reservation for other people too at the same time if needed (since Gael only reserved for 5 people). Yes and maybe we can benefit from Fabian's

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] pl.pcolormesh in the examples

2011-11-10 Thread Vlad Niculae
Very much +1, I would always cringe when seeing colormesh calls. I gave a talk using the IPython notebook and scikit-learn examples, setting it to SVG mode at the top, and I would have to switch back to PNG mode for all examples using pcolormesh because it would crash (well probably just take

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Parallel GridSearchCV on sparse.SVC fails with ValueError

2011-11-06 Thread Vlad Niculae
Yes, I was thinking of a sequencial, exploratory IPython-style thing where you change something in your X and re-fit, when you don't want to clone and delete the old estimator. Hope this makes sense. Vlad 2011/11/6 Lars Buitinck l.j.buiti...@uva.nl: 2011/11/6 Vlad Niculae v...@vene.ro

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Multi Layer Perceptron / Neural Network in Sklearn

2011-11-04 Thread Vlad Niculae
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Andreas Müller amuel...@ais.uni-bonn.de wrote: On 11/04/2011 03:49 PM, Andreas Müller wrote: On 11/04/2011 03:42 PM, Alexandre Passos wrote: On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:34, Lars Buitinck l.j.buiti...@uva.nl wrote: 2011/11/4 Alexandre Passos alexandre...@gmail.com:

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] OMP behavior

2011-10-19 Thread Vlad Niculae
Interesting. I've been staring at the code but the algorithm itself shouldn't be losing precision. On the other hand, there are those stopping conditions that I had taken from the C implementation of the author of the Cholesky-OMP paper. If it's as you say, it could be that when it fails, OMP

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Documentation linking

2011-10-19 Thread Vlad Niculae
Hi Jake, A while back I remember having that issue because my local version of sphinx was higher than 1.0.0 and thus unsupported by the scikit-learn docs, so the function links wouldn't work when I built it locally, but they would work in the online-generated version. Did the sphinx version used

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] OMP behavior

2011-10-18 Thread Vlad Niculae
Thank you for the observation. I have been looking into this since yesterday where the same thing has been reported on my blog by Bob L. Strum. At the moment I have no idea what the cause is. Does it behave in the same way if you use the gram solver instead? Best, Vlad On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at

[Scikit-learn-general] Gaussian processes missing from class reference

2011-10-12 Thread Vlad Niculae
Hello As far as I can tell (hope I'm not too tired and missing something), gaussian processes are missing from the class reference. They are not included in the classes.rst index. Is this just an omission? Because the module seems to have solid docstrings that deserve to be listed. Best, Vlad

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Passing attributes to the compiler when building win32 binaries

2011-10-03 Thread Vlad Niculae
I think that the binaries without statically linked libgcc and libstdc++ would have worked if run from a mingw32 environment (ie. they worked in mine). I wonder if it works the other way around (ie. no static linking, build with MSVC, run from within mingw32) Fabian, is the 0.8 release built with

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] [scikit-learn] Failed to install sklearn 0.9 on Windows XP (py 2.7) (#368) (fwd)

2011-09-28 Thread Vlad Niculae
Hopefully the positive reports from the initial discussion are actually accurate and the new installers are working. As far as I can tell, sourceforge still hosts the old, buggy installers. (looking at the date) If this turns out to be the case, who can update the sourceforge files? Vlad On

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] [scikit-learn] ImportError: Please do not forget to run `make` first (#359)

2011-09-24 Thread Vlad Niculae
can be closed and I can be rehabilitated in the public eye :) Best, Vlad On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 3:25 PM, josef.p...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Vlad Niculae v...@vene.ro wrote: The date should be 24th I think since I uploaded it late at night. You can get it from PyPI

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