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 >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "sympy" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an email to [email protected]. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAHVvXxSDX1r%2BR7zyU3uz2aa7X%2BRLy_hsXAyQagKrJCeQdkS3_A%40mail.gmail.com. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/2662f687-f5c2-4530-ab79-b2d8944b2db9n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/2662f687-f5c2-4530-ab79-b2d8944b2db9n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- With regards, Gagandeep Singh Github - https://github.com/czgdp1807/ Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/czgdp1807/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. 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