Hi,

Ideas for Probability and Statistics are updated. Please visit,
https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-Ideas#probability

Thanks.

On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 3:40 AM Psycho-Pirate <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hey Aaron,
> I would like to help clean up the ideas page. Please let me know how you
> want me to proceed. Should I just search the tags related to ideas and see
> how much work has been done and how much can be done in the given coding
> period?
>
> Prakhar Saxena
>
> On Saturday, February 13, 2021 at 3:09:00 AM UTC+5:30 [email protected]
> wrote:
>
>> Reminder that our deadline to submit our application to Google is Feb
>> 19 (a week from today). I plan on working on the application next
>> week, but if anyone can volunteer to go through and clean up the ideas
>> page, that would be really helpful. Also reminder that if you are
>> potentially interested in mentoring to please add your name to list
>> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-Ideas#potential-mentors
>>
>> Aaron Meurer
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 5:55 PM Oscar Benjamin
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 at 23:32, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 4:20 PM Oscar Benjamin
>> > > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > Thanks Aaron for sorting this.
>> > > >
>> > > > I've removed the ODE systems idea from the ideas page as it has
>> been
>> > > > mostly sorted out by Milan Jolly last year. There is still work to
>> do
>> > > > but it is not such a high priority after Milan's work.
>> > > >
>> > > > The change to 175hrs which is basically 5 actual weeks which places
>> > > > quite significant limits on what could be achieved. We should think
>> > > > about how to break up a lot of these ideas and make them more
>> > > > manageable. For example the highest priority ideas are probably
>> things
>> > > > like the Risch algorithm, Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition, Karr
>> > > > etc. Each of those is way beyond 5 weeks though - we shouldn't
>> bother
>> > > > listing them there unless we can distil the idea down to more
>> > > > carefully described steps that are actually achievable.
>> > >
>> > > Yes, although I would argue that that has already been a problem. We
>> > > haven't had much interest in these problems because they are too
>> > > unapproachable. I don't know if they can be split into smaller
>> > > problems, and if doing so would make them more approachable (there's
>> > > also the issue that they are mathematically hard).
>> >
>> > I think that these problems would be more approachable if there was
>> > clear documentation explaining:
>> >
>> > 1. What is already implemented
>> > 2. What should ideally be implemented
>> > 3. What the next steps should be
>> > 4. Where to find more information
>> >
>> > The problem is when we have something like the Risch algorithm that is
>> > partially implemented but it is difficult for any newcomer to
>> > understand what should actually be done to take it further. Listing
>> > the idea of "implementing the algorithm" in the GSOC page isn't very
>> > helpful if it doesn't represent any manageable piece of work.
>> >
>> > > > I think that it would be good to move all of these ideas to a page
>> > > > like "old ideas" and say that if anyone wants to rejuvenate the
>> idea
>> > > > then it should be updated and reframed in a way that is suitable to
>> > > > the new GSOC arrangement before being moved to the new ideas page.
>> > > > Bigger goals like the Risch algorithm should be moved to something
>> > > > like a "big ideas" page. Any ideas listed for GSOC need to be
>> specific
>> > > > and achievable. Open ended ideas should go somewhere else I think.
>> > >
>> > > Feel free to refactor the page however you see fit. I deleted the old
>> > > years pages because they were only confusing.
>> >
>> > Thanks for doing that.
>> >
>> > I guess what I'm saying is that we shouldn't allow any ideas to "roll
>> > over" from one year to another. I think that the ideas page should
>> > always be a page of up to date fresh proposals presented by currently
>> > available mentors.
>> >
>> > Or perhaps there should be a separation where there is a page of
>> > general "ideas" and then another page of off the shelf "projects" that
>> > are suitable for the GSOC timeline.
>> >
>> > Either way if we want to make the most of GSOC then I think we could
>> > do better by giving better guidance to students.
>> >
>> > Oscar
>> >
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