[mlpack] Projects accepted for GSoC 2020

[Ryan Curtin]

Ah wait, I forgot to add an important bit.  If you applied for GSoC and
want mlpack (or ensmallen) stickers but didn't get them already, just
send an email to stickers at mlpack.org with a mailing address and we can
get them in the mail to you.  It's the least we can do to appreciate
everyone's contributions and effort in putting together the proposals.

On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 04:52:39PM -0400, Ryan Curtin wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Today the accepted projects for mlpack were announced.  This year, we
> received 8 slots out of our requested 10, so we unfortunately had to
> make some hard decisions.  We received 89 proposals, and many were quite
> competitive, so, as always, it isn't easy selecting which students
> should be accepted.
> 
> Here are the 8 projects:
> 
>   - Nishant Kumar
>      "Addition of Rainbow and Soft Actor-Critic to RL Codebase"
>      mentored by Marcus and Rahul
> 
>   - Kartik Dutt
>      "Application of ANN Algorithms Implemented in mlpack"
>      mentored by Sangyeon and Saksham
> 
>   - Yashwant Singh
>      "Automatically-Generated R Bindings"
>      mentored by Ryan C., Dirk, and James
> 
>   - Himanshu Pathak
>      "Implementing Essential Deep Learning Module"
>      mentored by Saksham
> 
>   - Anjishnu Mukherjee
>      "Improvisation and Implementation of ANN Modules"
>      mentored by Sreenik
> 
>   - Omar Shrit
>      "mlpack on RPi and other resource-constrained devices"
>      mentored by Ryan C. and Roberto
> 
>   - Mrityunjay Tripathi
>      "Transformer and BERT in mlpack"
>      mentored by Mikhail
> 
>   - Jeffin Sam
>      "Vis Tool"
>      mentored by Toshal and Ryan B.
> 
> Congratulations to everyone who was accepted!  If you were not accepted,
> but you feel that you put together a competitive proposal, you are
> probably right---and we're sorry that we weren't able to make it work
> out.
> 
> Thank you to everyone who has applied.  Many bugs were found, many
> improvements were merged, and with all of our work combined we released
> mlpack 3.1.1 and will continue to release more improvements in the
> future.
> 
> I realize that there are lots of PRs that didn't get merged during the
> application period; personally, I'll be trying to do some work through
> the backlog as I'm able to.
> 
> The next month is community bonding---so students should make sure they
> have regular communications with their mentors, get familiar with
> coding/merging practices (if that hasn't happened already).  Feel free
> to hang out in the chat and if there are any questions don't hesitate to
> ask your mentor or anyone.
> 
> Have a great day!  (may the fourth be with you! :))
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ryan
> 
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