Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Announce: sklearn.crowdbase.com

2012-02-13 Thread Martin Laprise
Thanks all for you constructive comments, I think your right. In fact, it was also my impression that a QA dedicated to sklearn is a little bit overkill, but I convinced myself that there is never to much communication channels. That said, I think your right, sklearn will have better visibility if

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Announce: sklearn.crowdbase.com

2012-02-13 Thread Olivier Grisel
2012/2/14 Alexandre Passos : > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 17:30, Gael Varoquaux > wrote: >> Hi Martin, >> >> Thanks for you enthousiasm, and thanks for the Crowdbase instance. The >> Q&A sites are definitively very useful. I am myself an occasional user of >> a few of them. Scikit-learn is actually v

[Scikit-learn-general] Discussion with Guido van Rossum and (hopefully) core python-dev on scientific Python and Python3

2012-02-13 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi folks, [ I'm broadcasting this widely for maximum reach, but I'd appreciate it if replies can be kept to the *numpy* list, which is sort of the 'base' list for scientific/numerical work.  It will make it much easier to organize a coherent set of notes later on.  Apology if you're subscribed to

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Announce: sklearn.crowdbase.com

2012-02-13 Thread Alexandre Passos
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 17:30, Gael Varoquaux wrote: > Hi Martin, > > Thanks for you enthousiasm, and thanks for the Crowdbase instance. The > Q&A sites are definitively very useful. I am myself an occasional user of > a few of them. Scikit-learn is actually very well represented on the main > Q&A

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Why does polynomial SVC perform so poorly on document classification?

2012-02-13 Thread Alexandre Gramfort
> At the moment I'm not sure when and how the "C" values > are scaled by the number of examples. in the fit method before calling the low level libsvm/liblinear bindings. to check you can try with scale_C=False Alex --

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Announce: sklearn.crowdbase.com

2012-02-13 Thread Gael Varoquaux
Hi Martin, Thanks for you enthousiasm, and thanks for the Crowdbase instance. The Q&A sites are definitively very useful. I am myself an occasional user of a few of them. Scikit-learn is actually very well represented on the main Q&A site for machine learn, http://metaoptimize.com/qa. With regard

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Why does polynomial SVC perform so poorly on document classification?

2012-02-13 Thread Andreas
On 02/13/2012 09:49 PM, Lars Buitinck wrote: > Hi all, > > After reading some papers on (approximate) polynomial kernels for NLP > applications, I got curious and decided to do some quick experiments. > I modified the 20 newsgroups example to benchmark vanilla SVC instead > of LinearSVC with linear

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Why does polynomial SVC perform so poorly on document classification?

2012-02-13 Thread Olivier Grisel
2012/2/13 Lars Buitinck : > Hi all, > > After reading some papers on (approximate) polynomial kernels for NLP > applications, I got curious and decided to do some quick experiments. > I modified the 20 newsgroups example to benchmark vanilla SVC instead > of LinearSVC with linear, quadratic and cub

[Scikit-learn-general] Why does polynomial SVC perform so poorly on document classification?

2012-02-13 Thread Lars Buitinck
Hi all, After reading some papers on (approximate) polynomial kernels for NLP applications, I got curious and decided to do some quick experiments. I modified the 20 newsgroups example to benchmark vanilla SVC instead of LinearSVC with linear, quadratic and cubic kernels. I was quite surprised at

[Scikit-learn-general] Announce: sklearn.crowdbase.com

2012-02-13 Thread Martin Laprise
Hi All, I read a lot of really interesting discussion on the sklearn mailinglist lately. Unfortunately, it is hard to find specific answers in the archive, so I started an new Crowdbase instance (a Q&A tool ... a little bit like Stackoverflow) specifically for the sklearn developers and users. Fee