[mlpack] GSoC '16: Introduction and Project ideas discussion

[Vivek Pal]

Hi Ryan,


I want to give an update about my current situation as application period
for GSoC opens from tomorrow. Last few days, I couldn't spend much time on
preparing an early draft of my proposal due to(may be it is some bad luck)
the reason that I have exams from coming Monday (right when application
period starts :-/) Therefore, I was busy preparing for it and hence
couldn't devote fair amount of time to interact in the project community. *I
seriously apologize for that. I do have full intentions to not to lose grip
on this side of my focus due to exams. *I have actually planned the rest of
my days in the following manner :-


*I will do some small but crucial tasks in the exam week like reading
required papers and try to gather as much information I can which will help
me later on**. **Although, good thing is that the exams will get over by
18th March which gives me 7 days(18 - 24th March) before the application
period ends to refine my proposal.** I will direct my full attention, time
and energy towards working on this project from 18th evening. So, I'll get
my first rough draft ready and request to get feedback by 20th March. *


I know it might be less time but I can literally devote my whole day into
getting my proposal in good shape once my exams get over in order to get up
to speed quickly. Also, since I have everything set up already now, I'll
get familiar with in's and out's of the code base and how to use it.


I hope you understand my situation.

Have a nice day!



Thanks,

Vivek Pal


On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 9:11 PM, Vivek Pal <vivekpal.dtu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I hope your day is going well! Allow me to introduce myself. My name is
> Vivek Pal. I'm an undergraduate majoring in Computer Science Engineering at
> Delhi Technological University in New Delhi, India. I have been taking up
> number of courses on Machine Learning from various MOOC platform like MITx, Coursera,
> Edx and Udacity. Also, I have more than 4 years of coding experience in
> C++, C and python. I took my first course on Computer Science in high
> school and started writing working programs in C++ since then.
>
> I have keen interests in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. I
> have read atleast half a dozen research papers related to different
> algorithms, implementation models and framework over the period of last 5-6
> months. I also started contributing to different projects like OpenCog
> recently. However, those were minor contributions. Here's my Github profile
> link for reference: https://github.com/ivmarkp . I intend to contribute
> in MLPack project via GsoC '16. I have been lurking around in IRC channel
> to gain an insight into the code of conduct for past few days and have also
> followed previous mailing list mails. I have moderate-difficulty level
> experience in working on recommender systems as I had built a recommender
> system for the Minor project in college by taking cues from this research
> paper: A Graph-based model for context-aware recommendation using implicit
> feedback data. Here's the link for this paper:
> http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11280-014-0307-z
>
> After checking out proposed project ideas, I am quite interested in
> working on these projects:
>
> 1. Alternatives to neighborhood-based collaborative filtering
>
> 2. Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
>
> Regarding the first project idea, I'm currently reading the paper
> referenced as an alternative to k-NN for recommender selection. Would
> revert back if I require more clarification. Also, if the issue #406 is
> taken up by someone else what else can be done on my part to get involved
> deeper into the project. And regarding the second project, no relevant
> issues are mentioned yet. How can I proceed further on working on this
> project? I think I could use some appropriate directions that can help me
> get seriously involved into the projects. I kind of feel lost even though
> I'm trying to take up open issues from Github but most of them are already
> taken up and it wouldn't make sense to duplicate the work already done. I
> apologize for starting off a little late but I've been quite busy with
> coursework in college last week. Though, it seems next week is going to be
> much more relaxed as per the planned schedule so expect me to be available
> all the time. Also, I was wondering that is it possible that these projects
> are already assigned to other students already on the account of their
> prior contributions?
>
> One thing I want to make a point on is the EXTENSIVE and VERY HELPFUL
> guidelines for anyone who wants to get invoved in this project. I was able
> to build and install Mlpack easily on my system. Thanks so much for putting
> together this documentation. I'm basically done with all the guidelines and
> starting points given on this page: http://www.mlpack.org/involved.html,
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vivek Pal
>
> B.Tech, CSE
>
> Delhi Technological University
>
> New Delhi, India
>
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