Re: Urgent - Withdraw my application for Google summer of code

2010-04-20 Thread Robin Anil
Dear Yinhua, Most of us here at Mahout have full time day jobs and we contribute in terms of ideas and discussion and in terms of code only when we get time. You are welcome anytime to come and contribute to Mahout and code up your Algorithm as well as improve the codebase. If yo

Re: Urgent - Withdraw my application for Google summer of code

2010-04-20 Thread Robin Anil
Noted. Robin On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:18 AM, yinghua hu wrote: > Mahout Development, > > I just got a summer internship offer today. I would like to withdraw my > application for GSOC. I am really sorry to tell you this late. I did not > hear anything from them until last week. I also did not

Urgent - Withdraw my application for Google summer of code

2010-04-20 Thread yinghua hu
Mahout Development, I just got a summer internship offer today. I would like to withdraw my application for GSOC. I am really sorry to tell you this late. I did not hear anything from them until last week. I also did not know that I would be selected for this internship. Thank you very much for y

Re: Digest for google-summer-of-code-mentors-l...@googlegroups.com - 25 Messages in 2 Topics

2010-04-12 Thread Benson Margulies
OK, sign me up. On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Grant Ingersoll wrote: > > On Apr 12, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > >> Robin asked me to pay attention to this mentoring question. I have >> assumed that, to be an effective mentor here, I'd have to be capable >> of at least keeping

Re: Digest for google-summer-of-code-mentors-l...@googlegroups.com - 25 Messages in 2 Topics

2010-04-12 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On Apr 12, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > Robin asked me to pay attention to this mentoring question. I have > assumed that, to be an effective mentor here, I'd have to be capable > of at least keeping up with the mentee on the math behind whatever > algorithm is in play. Thus, abse

Re: Digest for google-summer-of-code-mentors-l...@googlegroups.com - 25 Messages in 2 Topics

2010-04-12 Thread Benson Margulies
Robin asked me to pay attention to this mentoring question. I have assumed that, to be an effective mentor here, I'd have to be capable of at least keeping up with the mentee on the math behind whatever algorithm is in play. Thus, absent a proposal to work on maven configurations or collections, I'

Re: Digest for google-summer-of-code-mentors-l...@googlegroups.com - 25 Messages in 2 Topics

2010-04-12 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On Apr 10, 2010, at 5:26 PM, Sean Owen wrote: > +mahout-dev I think at this point > > I could be misremembering (there's that word again Grant) but are we > not supposed to sign on to mentor more than 1 person without having > talked it over on code-awards? Seems like a lot of grumbling about >

Re: Digest for google-summer-of-code-mentors-l...@googlegroups.com - 25 Messages in 2 Topics

2010-04-10 Thread Sean Owen
+mahout-dev I think at this point I could be misremembering (there's that word again Grant) but are we not supposed to sign on to mentor more than 1 person without having talked it over on code-awards? Seems like a lot of grumbling about gaming the system and such from past years, which seems legi

Re: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects

2010-03-12 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On Mar 12, 2010, at 1:22 AM, Robin Anil wrote: > Shall I go and put some of the ideas up. I will do it as a whole for the > project. Later we can re-assign things maybe ? How does that sound? Unlike > other projects we cant really go an put a proposal like "Implement > back-propagation" and expec

Re: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects

2010-03-11 Thread Robin Anil
Shall I go and put some of the ideas up. I will do it as a whole for the project. Later we can re-assign things maybe ? How does that sound? Unlike other projects we cant really go an put a proposal like "Implement back-propagation" and expect a student to take it up and reduce things to map/reduce

Fwd: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects

2010-03-11 Thread Ted Dunning
4:03 PM Subject: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects To: p...@apache.org, priv...@incubator.apache.org, code-awa...@apache.org It is time for your project to start preparing for GSoC if you have not already done so. Things you need to do if you want to consider being a mentor

Re: Need comments on Proposal for linear SVM framework (Google Summer of Code 2010)

2010-02-21 Thread zhao zhendong
So far, I think it's a great idea to resize the proposal to porting LIBLINEAR to Mahout with compatible interface with Pegasos implementation. I will mail the author of JAVA-LIBLINEAR and discuss about the licenses stuff. On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Ted Dunning wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 20

Re: Need comments on Proposal for linear SVM framework (Google Summer of Code 2010)

2010-02-21 Thread Ted Dunning
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 1:49 AM, zhao zhendong wrote: > ... > That's true. Do you think whether porting a LIBLINEAR to Mahout is good > enough for this proposal, I really don't know How big is big enough:) If > Yes, I can move the rest part for the future work. > Porting liblinear would probably

Re: Need comments on Proposal for linear SVM framework (Google Summer of Code 2010)

2010-02-21 Thread zhao zhendong
Hi, See the response below: On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Ted Dunning wrote: > This seems like a good idea for a project, but I see two issues: > > a) it seems very ambitious for one summer. This is good and bad. Good > because you are excited and want to accomplish something grand, bad if

Re: Need comments on Proposal for linear SVM framework (Google Summer of Code 2010)

2010-02-20 Thread Ted Dunning
This seems like a good idea for a project, but I see two issues: a) it seems very ambitious for one summer. This is good and bad. Good because you are excited and want to accomplish something grand, bad if it is too ambitious and would cause you to officially fail while still accomplishing parts

Need comments on Proposal for linear SVM framework (Google Summer of Code 2010)

2010-02-20 Thread zhao zhendong
Hi all, Robin told me such great chance for continuous contributing code here (many thanks to Robin). Because I still work on Sequential SVM (Mahout-232) and I prefer to extend it to a unified framework that incorporates some other state-of-the-art linear SVM classifiers, I propose "Linear Support

Re: Google Summer of Code Proposal Submission

2009-03-27 Thread Philip Ramsey
Grant, Thank you very much for the feedback! I'll make those changes and elaborations to my proposal very soon. Our thinking with the bi-grams is that, if we can maintain a relatively low error-rate in computing sets of similar words at a grassroots level, then we can have a powerful base case for

Re: Google Summer of Code Proposal Submission

2009-03-26 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Hi Philip, Thanks for the proposal. Sounds interesting. For the proposal that you submit, you should make sure to add references, details on how you plan to implement, etc. Of course, no need to do that in great depth on the wiki. Also, have you looked at going beyond just bi-grams? N

Google Summer of Code Proposal Submission

2009-03-25 Thread Philip Ramsey
Hello Folks, I'm a student at The Evergreen State College and yesterday I submitted a proposal for the GSoC project to the wiki. I'm sending a link to my submission, with hopes that some of you might have feedback or questions or advice: http://wiki.apache.org/general/SoC2009/PhilipRamsey-Mahout-

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-04-22 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Also, have a look at: http://www.apache.org/dev/ for more info. It would be helpful if all people (esp. GSOCers) who plan on contributing code file a CLA (http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas) although it is not explicitly required, just makes things a bit nicer for us on the legal side.

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-04-22 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Welcome aboard! We had a lot of very nice proposals, including a couple that were, unfortunately just below the cutoff. We (the ASF) had originally hoped to get more slots from Google, but they had an even bigger response from other projects as well. As it were, Mahout alone had somethi

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-04-21 Thread Isabel Drost
On Tuesday 22 April 2008, deneche abdelhakim wrote: > So we are four students, that's cool. I wish us good work and great fun in > this summer. I am really happy, we received a few slots more than expected. Welcome to the Mahout project to both of you and congratulations to the successful GSoC

RE : Google Summer of Code

2008-04-21 Thread deneche abdelhakim
Hi Robin, I am very happy that I've been accepted, thanks to the Mahout Community that kindly commented on my draft. So we are four students, that's cool. I wish us good work and great fun in this summer. Hakim Robin Anil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : Hi Everyone, This is

Google Summer of Code

2008-04-21 Thread Robin Anil
Hi Everyone, This is one of those days where I wake up and see that I have got accepted to GSoc with Mahout (:32-all-out:) . I am really excited to kick start the work. I know I have a lot to understand in terms of coding practices, the whole workflow/process. And i would like to

Re: Regarding Google Summer of Code Lucene Mahout Project

2008-04-01 Thread Robin Anil
Hi, I have submitted my proposal for implementing Complementary Naive Bayes. Along with it, I have proposed to implement an EM algorithm to help learn unlabelled data. More explanation of the method is found in this paper. http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~tsuruoka/papers/conll03.pdf. My

Re: Regarding Google Summer of Code Lucene Mahout Project

2008-03-27 Thread Jason Rennie
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Isabel Drost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The paper looks interesting: The modifications to naive bayes presented in > the > paper seem to lead to a classifier that is comparable to SVM performance > for > text classification while having far better performance.

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-25 Thread Isabel Drost
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Marko Novakovic wrote: > I understood kMeans algorithm from paper related to > this project. > Where could I find this code? Just have a look into the svn. The url to access it are on the website. > Does it exist any algotithm, which is not realized? I think you can al

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-25 Thread Marko Novakovic
I understood kMeans algorithm from paper related to this project. Where could I find this code? I could realize whatever algorithm, it needn't be kMeans. Which algorithm is more interesing to realize for you? Does it exist any algotithm, which is not realized? My mentor from my faculty said to me

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-25 Thread Isabel Drost
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Marko Novakovic wrote: > I attached beta version of presentation. > I must consult with mentor form my college to examine > exact which the role of clusterin is in this system. Hmm, one of the slides talks about using the clustering algorithm to identify new topics. I gu

Re: Regarding Google Summer of Code Lucene Mahout Project

2008-03-25 Thread Isabel Drost
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Robin Anil wrote: > You may be interested in reading the paper which talks more about it Here > . The paper looks interesting: The modifications to naive bayes presented in the paper seem to lead to a classifier t

Re: Regarding Google Summer of Code Lucene Mahout Project

2008-03-25 Thread Matthew Riley
Maybe you can get some feedback from Jason Rennie (one of the authors of the paper you linked) on your implementation - I seem to remember seeing some comments from him on this mailing list about a week ago. Matt On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Robin Anil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Isabel,

Re: Regarding Google Summer of Code Lucene Mahout Project

2008-03-25 Thread Robin Anil
Hi Isabel, On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:52 AM, Isabel Drost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 24 March 2008, Robin Anil wrote: > > > The Complement-Naive-Bayes-Classifier(coded up for this project) then run on > > the retrieved document to do post processing. > > The ideas presented in the sli

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-24 Thread Isabel Drost
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Marko Novakovic wrote: > Other components will be clasifier, crawler and > indexer. So it will be the typical setup: Crawl web pages, classify them as positive or negative and in the end index them correctly? I would be especially interested in how the classifier will b

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-24 Thread Isabel Drost
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Josh Harguess wrote: > I have completed an application for Google Summer of Code for the > implementation of the PCA algorithm in Mahout. My research is directly > related to the use of PCA, so I am very familiar with that algorithm. Great! > However, sin

Google Summer of Code

2008-03-24 Thread Josh Harguess
Hello all, I have completed an application for Google Summer of Code for the implementation of the PCA algorithm in Mahout. My research is directly related to the use of PCA, so I am very familiar with that algorithm. However, since I work in the area of pattern recognition and machine learning

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-24 Thread Marko Novakovic
The cluster will be one component at search engine. Other components will be clasifier, crawler and indexer. I have idea about architecture in which all components will be run at each machine. Weba pages will be sent to cpu-s by hash function, which will be variable depending on inserting new or di

Re: Regarding Google Summer of Code Lucene Mahout Project

2008-03-24 Thread Isabel Drost
On Monday 24 March 2008, Robin Anil wrote: > The Complement-Naive-Bayes-Classifier(coded up for this project) then run on > the retrieved document to do post processing. The ideas presented in the slides look pretty interesting to me. Could you please provide some pointers to information in the

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-24 Thread Isabel Drost
On Monday 24 March 2008, Marko Novakovic wrote: > and I am interesting to implement this clustering > algorithm at Handop platform. So you would like to get a distributed clustering algorithm for grouping search results? It would be nice to hear more about your approach to this problem. There

Google Summer of Code

2008-03-24 Thread Marko Novakovic
Dear, I have read about funcionalities, which apache wants to implement in Mahout. I am interested in applying for kMeans algortithm for clustering. I have menthor at my faculty, whose phd thesis was about machine learning algorithms in Search Engines. His Search Engine makes categorization and cl

Re: Regarding Google Summer of Code Lucene Mahout Project

2008-03-24 Thread Robin Anil
Hi Isabel, I had used the C# platform to work on the project. I am attaching a presentation which I used in my last thesis review. It doesn't contain any results at the moment. The Complete project is done on C# in a single application. The indexed documents are searched for the keywor

Re: Google summer of code & mahout-machine-learning

2008-03-24 Thread Isabel Drost
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Frédéric wrote: > Hello, > > I am a french student, currently studying distributed systems in Finland. Sounds interesting. What are you working on? > To be honest I don't know all the algorithms listed in the paper. I think it is sufficient to either know at least on

Re: Regarding Google Summer of Code Lucene Mahout Project

2008-03-24 Thread Isabel Drost
On Monday 24 March 2008, Robin Anil wrote: > I am currently working on my Btech Thesis which is to extract opinionated > Sentences from Blogs which is also a part of Text Retrieval Conference TREC > 2008 Blog Track under the guidance of Prof. Sudeshna Sarkar Can you tell us a little more about yo

Re: Regarding Google Summer of Code Lucene Mahout Project

2008-03-24 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On Mar 24, 2008, at 11:07 AM, Robin Anil wrote: Hi Admins, I went through the Google Summer of Code Wiki and found out about the mahout-machine-learning project. I wish to participate in implementing the papers. I am currently working on my Btech Thesis which is to extract

Regarding Google Summer of Code Lucene Mahout Project

2008-03-24 Thread Robin Anil
Hi Admins, I went through the Google Summer of Code Wiki and found out about the mahout-machine-learning project. I wish to participate in implementing the papers. I am currently working on my Btech Thesis which is to extract opinionated Sentences from Blogs which is also a part

Re: Google summer of code & mahout-machine-learning

2008-03-19 Thread Grant Ingersoll
x27;t know all the algorithms listed in the paper, but I've ever implemented genetic algorithms and artificial neural networks for both my academic and personal projects. I have a good knowledge of Java and I have ever done a successful Google summer of code last year. Unfortunately, I have som

Google summer of code & mahout-machine-learning

2008-03-19 Thread Frédéric
ver implemented genetic algorithms and artificial neural networks for both my academic and personal projects. I have a good knowledge of Java and I have ever done a successful Google summer of code last year. Unfortunately, I have some exams to take this week and I'm sorry for not having eno

RE: Google Summer of Code[esp. More Clustering]

2008-03-11 Thread Jeff Eastman
ch 10, 2008 9:09 PM > To: mahout-dev@lucene.apache.org > Subject: RE: Google Summer of Code[esp. More Clustering] > > Hi Matthew, > > I'd like to pursue that canopy thought a little further and mix it in with > your sub sampling idea. Optimizing can come later, once we figu

RE: Google Summer of Code[esp. More Clustering]

2008-03-10 Thread Jeff Eastman
-dev@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code[esp. More Clustering] > > Hi Jeff- > > I think your "basin of attraction" understanding is right on. I also like > your ideas for distributing the mean-shift iterations by following a > canopy-style method. My in

Re: Google Summer of Code[esp. More Clustering]

2008-03-10 Thread Ted Dunning
There is a lot of locality in the local density function window, and >> this could perhaps be exploited. If points could be pre-clustered (as >> canopy is often used to prime the k-means iterations), parallelization >> might be feasible. >> >> Are these observations within a &quo

Re: Google Summer of Code[esp. More Clustering]

2008-03-10 Thread Matthew Riley
ons within a "basin of attraction" to your > understanding of mean-shift ? > > Jeff > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Riley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 11:46 AM > To: mahout-dev@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re:

RE: Google Summer of Code[esp. More Clustering]

2008-03-10 Thread Jeff Eastman
thew Riley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 11:46 AM To: mahout-dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code[esp. More Clustering] Hey Jeff- I'm certainly willing to put some energy into developing implementations of these algorithms, and it's good to

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-10 Thread Anush Shetty
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow, maybe w/ all of our mentors we could get 2 students... > neat ++ :) -- ((Anush Shetty)) ((mail AT anushshetty DOT com))

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-10 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Wow, maybe w/ all of our mentors we could get 2 students... On Mar 10, 2008, at 3:42 AM, Isabel Drost wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2008, Grant Ingersoll wrote: Please feel free to add your name to the list of mentors if you can. I have added my name and created an account at the Google SoC w

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-10 Thread Isabel Drost
On Saturday 08 March 2008, Grant Ingersoll wrote: > Please feel free to add your name to the list of > mentors if you can. I have added my name and created an account at the Google SoC web application. Anything else - apart from reading the GSoC documentation we should not forget? Isabel -- A

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-09 Thread Ian Holsman
Hi Grant. I'll be happy to mentor someone for this project. regards Ian | A person or group responsible for review and ranking of student | applications, I'd be happy to help out here. Anyone else? Cool

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-09 Thread Grant Ingersoll
ECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 1:42 PM To: mahout-dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code Note, the deadline for project proposals is March 12. I put an item up for us at: http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2008 I think it is probably general enough to cover all o

RE: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-09 Thread Jeff Eastman
oogle Summer of Code Note, the deadline for project proposals is March 12. I put an item up for us at: http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2008 I think it is probably general enough to cover all of the bases discussed here. Please feel free to add your name to the list of mentors i

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-08 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Note, the deadline for project proposals is March 12. I put an item up for us at: http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2008 I think it is probably general enough to cover all of the bases discussed here. Please feel free to add your name to the list of mentors if you can. Perhaps

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-07 Thread Isabel Drost
On Friday 07 March 2008, Grant Ingersoll wrote: > Sounds good. I should also note that all mentoring should (barring > personal conversation) should take place on the dev list. That is, > decisions, discussions on what to do should be done on the list so > that we all benefit from the understandi

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-07 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On Mar 7, 2008, at 3:08 AM, Isabel Drost wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2008, Grant Ingersoll wrote: I think we can split the duties a bit, too. I think the Apache FAQ also said that - according with the usual Apache way of doing things - it would be ok if the GSoC students would receive he

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-07 Thread Dawid Weiss
What about encouraging your students to submit their work at Mahout? Just a naive thought of mine. Those students I'm in charge of have their area of interest defined already -- too late to change it. Good idea for the future, I have been thinking about it, actually. D.

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-07 Thread Isabel Drost
On Thursday 06 March 2008, Matthew Riley wrote: > I would basically be interested in doing anything that fits in well with > the overall goals of the Mahout project. Whether that is implementing well > known algorithms within the Hadoop framework or working on some novel idea > is up to the mentors

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-07 Thread Isabel Drost
On Thursday 06 March 2008, Grant Ingersoll wrote: > I think we can split the duties a bit, too. I think the Apache FAQ also said that - according with the usual Apache way of doing things - it would be ok if the GSoC students would receive help from all community members. So the actual time spe

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-06 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On Mar 6, 2008, at 4:36 PM, Matthew Riley wrote: I would basically be interested in doing anything that fits in well with the overall goals of the Mahout project. Whether that is implementing well known algorithms within the Hadoop framework or working on some novel idea is up to the ment

Re: Google Summer of Code[esp. More Clustering]

2008-03-06 Thread Matthew Riley
l clustering algorithms with you and your > >> colleague. > >> I'm a complete noob in this area and it is always enlightening to > >> work > >> with students who have more current theoretical exposures. > >> > >> Do you have some links on these app

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-06 Thread Matthew Riley
be great to have someone implement one of the algorithms on our > >>> wiki. > >> Just as a general note, the deadline for applications: > >> > >> March 12: Mentoring organization application deadline (12 noon > PDT/19:00 > >> UTC). > >&g

Re: Google Summer of Code[esp. More Clustering]

2008-03-06 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Do you have some links on these approaches that you find particularly helpful? Jeff -Original Message- From: Matthew Riley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 11:11 PM To: mahout-dev@lucene.apache.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code Hey everyone

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-06 Thread Grant Ingersoll
19:00 UTC). I suppose we should identify interesing tasks until that deadline. As a general guideline for mentors and for project proposals: http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/AdviceforMentors Isabel -- Better late than never. -- Titus Livius

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-06 Thread Grant Ingersoll
I think we can split the duties a bit, too. Simon, can you share your experience since you did a GSOC for Lucene a few years back? I seem to recall there being a couple of Lucene mentors. On Mar 6, 2008, at 1:47 AM, Isabel Drost wrote: Finally found a general answer to my question: | Wh

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-06 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On Mar 6, 2008, at 1:32 AM, Isabel Drost wrote: On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Simon Willnauer wrote: You could have a look at the FAQ or the GSoC pages http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ and http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html respectively. Hmm, there is little about what mentors are expec

Re: Google Summer of Code[esp. More Clustering]

2008-03-06 Thread Matthew Riley
t; Jeff > > -Original Message- > From: Matthew Riley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 11:11 PM > To: mahout-dev@lucene.apache.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code > > Hey everyone- > > I've been watching the m

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-06 Thread Isabel Drost
On Thursday 06 March 2008, Dawid Weiss wrote: > > five hours per student per week in summer should be doable, at least for > > me. > > I'm out, unfortunately -- my academic job already comes with a bunch of > students to take care of. It's fun, but it's time-consuming. What about encouraging your

RE: Google Summer of Code[esp. More Clustering]

2008-03-06 Thread Jeff Eastman
ED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 11:11 PM To: mahout-dev@lucene.apache.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code Hey everyone- I've been watching the mailing list for a little while now, hoping to contribute once I became more familiar, but I wanted to jump in here now and e

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-06 Thread Dawid Weiss
ors and for project proposals: http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/AdviceforMentors Isabel -- Better late than never. -- Titus Livius (Livy) |\ _,,,---,,_ Web: <http://www.isabel-drost.de> /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ |,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_) (fL) IM:

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-06 Thread Dawid Weiss
five hours per student per week in summer should be doable, at least for me. I'm out, unfortunately -- my academic job already comes with a bunch of students to take care of. It's fun, but it's time-consuming. D.

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-05 Thread Matthew Riley
until that deadline. As a > general guideline for mentors and for project proposals: > > http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/AdviceforMentors > > Isabel > > -- > Better late than never. -- Titus Livius (Livy) > |\ _,,,---,,_ Web: <http:

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-05 Thread Isabel Drost
anization application deadline (12 noon PDT/19:00 UTC). I suppose we should identify interesing tasks until that deadline. As a general guideline for mentors and for project proposals: http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/AdviceforMentors Isabel -- Better late than never. -- Tit

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-05 Thread Isabel Drost
Finally found a general answer to my question: | While the answer to this question will vary widely depending on the number | of students a mentor works with, the difficulty of the proposals and the | skill level of the students, most mentors have let us know that they | underestimated the amount

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-05 Thread Isabel Drost
| accepted student and to mentor her/him as the project progresses; + backup That would be the mentors Grant already mentioned. | A written evaluation of each student participant, including how s/he worked | with the group, whether s/he should be invited back should we do another | Google

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-05 Thread Simon Willnauer
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Isabel Drost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 01 March 2008, Grant Ingersoll wrote: > > > Any of the other committers willing to mentor? > > Could you please clarify - or point to a page that does so - about what it > means to become a Mentor? Anyone have

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-05 Thread Isabel Drost
On Saturday 01 March 2008, Grant Ingersoll wrote: > > Any of the other committers willing to mentor? Could you please clarify - or point to a page that does so - about what it means to become a Mentor? Anyone have any experience being a mentor? I would be happy to help - but I would rather lear

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-03-01 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Well, here's your chance. Make a proposal of something you would like to work on that fits with what we are doing and we'll discuss it and possibly put it up as a project. I think it would be great if anyone took on something like M/R SVM implementation, or one of the other ones that is no

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-02-29 Thread jaideep
> Hi Gang, > > I think we should put in for this: > http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2008 > > I would be there are some students interested in doing ML on Hadoop. Yes. I would be happy to work :) Didn't know that Mahout is also participating in SoC. > Any of the other committers willing t

Re: Google Summer of Code

2008-02-29 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Also, any thoughts on what we might want someone to do? I think it would be great to have someone implement one of the algorithms on our wiki. -Grant On Feb 29, 2008, at 9:33 PM, Grant Ingersoll wrote: Hi Gang, I think we should put in for this: http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCo

Google Summer of Code

2008-02-29 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Hi Gang, I think we should put in for this: http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2008 I would be there are some students interested in doing ML on Hadoop. Any of the other committers willing to mentor? I am, but would also like some others to help out if you have the time. See http