Hi Maik, thanks for the pointers! Will follow up on protocols and the Data Set implementation as mentioned.
On Wednesday, 26 February 2014 03:24:00 UTC+5:30, Maik Schünemann wrote: > > Hi, > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Rohan Prinja > <rohan....@gmail.com<javascript:>> > wrote: > > Hi everyone. I'm Rohan Prinja, a third year Computer Science undergrad > at > > IIT Bombay. I love programming in Lisp-family languages and although I > have > > only recently begun to use Clojure, I'm already quite familiar with > Racket > > and Common Lisp. I also have a basic knowledge of the J programming > > language. > > > > I am really interested in furthering my knowledge of Clojure while at > the > > same time producing some meaningful contributions and in my opinion, > > contributing to open source via GSoC is the best way for me to do that! > I second you on that. I participated in GSoC last year on the project > Algebraic Expressions > and it was a very good experience and I definitly learned a lot by doing > it. > > I went through the project ideas list and I feel that the Linear Algebra > for > > Clojure project is the best one for me because I have a strong > foundation in > > Linear Algebra. > I would be very happy if you manage to work on this project. Having > support for the > linear algebra operations is a long standing issue in core.matrix. > Also Mike did a fantastic job mentoring me last year ;) > > Please give me some suggestions on understanding and learning more about > the > > project. So far I've seen the Enter the Matrix Clojure conj talk and > have > > begun browsing the core.matrix source on Github. What other things can I > do? > I think it is good to contact Mike Anderson (mikera on this > list) directly for your gsoc specific questions regarding this project > idea and what you can do > to prepare yourself for it. Here are some of my ideas of what you could > do: > You should learn how clojure protocols are working and figure out how > the code flows in > core.matrix. > Also, watch the numerical clojure mailing list and get involved > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/numerical-clojure > (There is currently an active discussion about a Data Set > implementation of core.matrix > which could be a good starting point) > > greetings > Maik > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
