[mlpack] Greetings and selecting a first issue

[Sunanda Gamage]

Hi Ryan.

Thank you! Yes you're right about the financial community being performance
oriented, and I felt my experience would be relevant to mlpack.

Great, I will start with #1152: FastMKS test, and get back when I have
something for you to look at.

Thanks again!

Sunanda

On Mon, Feb 4, 2019, 7:46 PM Ryan Curtin <ryan at ratml.org wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 07:31:19PM -0500, Sunanda Gamage wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > My name is Sunanda and I'm a PhD student at Western University, Canada.
> My
> > research is on using machine learning methods for network traffic
> analysis
> > (detecting intrusions/ other events). Before grad school, I was a
> developer
> > for 3 years writing back-ends of stock exchange systems in C++. Writing
> > elegant and performant C++ code is something I love, and I can see that
> > mlpack is a code base full of such code.
>
> Hi Sunanda,
>
> Welcome to the community!  Great to have someone with your experience on
> board.  I think that the finance and stock exchange communities value
> efficient implementations about the same as we do, so I think we are on
> the same page. :)
>
> > I'd like to be a contributor to this project, and I have read the pages
> on
> > getting involved, gsoc, GSoC Ideas and Design Guidelines. I've also
> > compiled and run some example code and gone through some of the API
> > documentation.
> >
> > I was going to get started with a "good first issue", but many have been
> > taken up by developers who have not commented on them in a few months. Is
> > it OK if I work on one if these and try to open a pull request? I was
> > thinking issue #1152: the fastmks test.
>
> I'd love to see the FastMKS test finished.  There's already a PR open
> for it: #1356.  But it hasn't been touched in a long time.  You could
> start there and finish it out, or, you could write the code from
> scratch.  Either is just fine with me.  We're getting pretty close to
> fully finished with #1152; I'm hopeful that the last few tests get
> merged in the next months.
>
> If you put together some code, I'll review it when I have a chance.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ryan
>
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