[mlpack] An Introduction

[Marcus Edel]

Hello Amitrajit,

sorry for the slow response.

> I am especially interested in:
> 
> Neuroevolution Algorithms,
> Essential Deep Learning Modules,
> We Need To Go Deeper - Google LeNet.


I might suggest that you narrow your focus because each of these projects has a
significant amount of background knowledge that is necessary.

To learn more about each of the projects than what has been listed on the Ideas
page, take a look at the mailing list archives:

https://mailman.cc.gatech.edu/pipermail/mlpack/

> However, others are already working on the warmup tasks listed alongside the
> projects. Are there any other tasks that I could try?

Don't worry, contributing is not a requirement for an application. So if you
don't find anything that you think you can do, that's not necessarily a problem.
However, I'll see if I can add some more "easy" issues in the next couple of
days. On the other side, you are always welcome to just poke around the library
and try to fix any problems you find, or improve the speed of various parts.

Thanks,
Marcus

> On 06 Mar 2016, at 08:39, Amitrajit Sarkar <aaiijmrtt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am Amitrajit Sarkar, a CS undergrad from Jadavpur University, India. I have been working on machine learning for over a year now. I even have my own neural networks library <https://github.com/aaiijmrtt/NET>, which I wrote from scratch while trying to understand existing theories. I am very eager to contribute to mlpack for GSoC 2016, as almost all the projects excite me equally.
> 
> I am especially interested in:
> 
> Neuroevolution Algorithms, <https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas#neuroevolution-algorithms>
> Essential Deep Learning Modules, <https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas#essential-deep-learning-modules>
> We Need To Go Deeper - Google LeNet. <https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas#we-need-to-go-deeper---googlenet>
> 
> I have implemented basic neuroevolution algorithms here <https://github.com/aaiijmrtt/LEARNING>, and several deep learning modules here <https://github.com/aaiijmrtt/NET>. I am certain that I can take up the tasks. However, others are already working on the warmup tasks listed alongside the projects. Are there any other tasks that I could try? I have a lot of experience with research work, and am a skilled coder.
> 
> I am attaching my CV for reference. You may find more about my interests on my blog <http://aaiijmrtt.github.io/>.
> 
> Cheers,
> Amitrajit.
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