Regarding Issue MAHOUT-1941

[Aditya]

Hello Saikat,

I have been talking to Trevor in relation to contributing to Apache Mahout
in terms of Algorithm development / improvements and he suggested that
currently you and Jim are working on Generalized Linear Model.

I was looking through the list of issues and found issue 1941 and was
wondering if there is an opportunity to contribute there. In general, I
would be grateful if you could guide me on how I can make myself useful to
Apache Mahout.

Awaiting your reply.


Regards,
Aditya

[Saikat Kanjilal]

Aditya,

Welcome to mahout, you can start by taking a look at the plan I've outlined in the JIRA to Trevor and others and add your comments there for tracking purposes, I am looking to get a shell API up for review in its very crude state hopefully in the next week or two based on the outlined plan. Also depending on your experience level it may be worthwhile to solve a few simple issues first which require getting your hands into the code, for example unit tests are a good place to do that to understand the Samsara framework before implementing any large algorithm. My 2 cents for what its worth. Use the dev list for help as needed.

Thanks


________________________________
From: Aditya <***@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 12:03 AM
To: ***@mahout.apache.org
Subject: Regarding Issue MAHOUT-1941

Hello Saikat,

I have been talking to Trevor in relation to contributing to Apache Mahout
in terms of Algorithm development / improvements and he suggested that
currently you and Jim are working on Generalized Linear Model.

I was looking through the list of issues and found issue 1941 and was
wondering if there is an opportunity to contribute there. In general, I
would be grateful if you could guide me on how I can make myself useful to
Apache Mahout.

Awaiting your reply.


Regards,
Aditya

[Aditya]

Thanks for the advice Saikat. I'll try to get some hands on experience. I
have gone through the mail thread " Contributing an algorithm for Samsara "
and was wondering if there are any unit tests / any bug fixes pending to
which I could contribute.

I will also go through the list of issues in Jira and see if I can
contribute to any of them to understand the framework. I'll get back to you
if I have any questions.

Best Regards,
Aditya

Post by Saikat Kanjilal
Aditya,
Welcome to mahout, you can start by taking a look at the plan I've
outlined in the JIRA to Trevor and others and add your comments there for
tracking purposes, I am looking to get a shell API up for review in its
very crude state hopefully in the next week or two based on the outlined
plan. Also depending on your experience level it may be worthwhile to
solve a few simple issues first which require getting your hands into the
code, for example unit tests are a good place to do that to understand the
Samsara framework before implementing any large algorithm. My 2 cents for
what its worth. Use the dev list for help as needed.
Thanks
________________________________
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 12:03 AM
Subject: Regarding Issue MAHOUT-1941
Hello Saikat,
I have been talking to Trevor in relation to contributing to Apache Mahout
in terms of Algorithm development / improvements and he suggested that
currently you and Jim are working on Generalized Linear Model.
I was looking through the list of issues and found issue 1941 and was
wondering if there is an opportunity to contribute there. In general, I
would be grateful if you could guide me on how I can make myself useful to
Apache Mahout.
Awaiting your reply.
Regards,
Aditya

[Saikat Kanjilal]

Aditya,

Please take a look at the plan in mahout-1929 specifically the list of next steps I identified to see which of those interests you and which you think you can finish in a managable period of time, for all GLM discussions lets keep all our discussions inside that JIRA. I am also in the middle of researching ALS so feel free to take a look at the discussion with Dmitry to see whether you want to work on any of the areas identified in that thread (namely (1) double-weighed ALS
(2) bayesian optimization and crossvalidation in an n-dimensional
hyperparameter space
(3) feature extraction per (preferrably R-like) formula.) , if you have questions ping the list and I'll respond as my bandwidth frees up some more.


Thanks again for your help.


________________________________
From: Aditya <***@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 7:29 AM
To: ***@mahout.apache.org
Subject: Re: Regarding Issue MAHOUT-1941

Thanks for the advice Saikat. I'll try to get some hands on experience. I
have gone through the mail thread " Contributing an algorithm for Samsara "
and was wondering if there are any unit tests / any bug fixes pending to
which I could contribute.

I will also go through the list of issues in Jira and see if I can
contribute to any of them to understand the framework. I'll get back to you
if I have any questions.

Best Regards,
Aditya

Post by Saikat Kanjilal
Aditya,
Welcome to mahout, you can start by taking a look at the plan I've
outlined in the JIRA to Trevor and others and add your comments there for
tracking purposes, I am looking to get a shell API up for review in its
very crude state hopefully in the next week or two based on the outlined
plan. Also depending on your experience level it may be worthwhile to
solve a few simple issues first which require getting your hands into the
code, for example unit tests are a good place to do that to understand the
Samsara framework before implementing any large algorithm. My 2 cents for
what its worth. Use the dev list for help as needed.
Thanks
________________________________
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 12:03 AM
Subject: Regarding Issue MAHOUT-1941
Hello Saikat,
I have been talking to Trevor in relation to contributing to Apache Mahout
in terms of Algorithm development / improvements and he suggested that
currently you and Jim are working on Generalized Linear Model.
I was looking through the list of issues and found issue 1941 and was
wondering if there is an opportunity to contribute there. In general, I
would be grateful if you could guide me on how I can make myself useful to
Apache Mahout.
Awaiting your reply.
Regards,
Aditya

[Trevor Grant]

Hi Aditya,

I went through and mopped up a lot of the outstanding 'beginner' issues as
part of the 0.13.0 release cycle. Sorry there isn't much there for you.

My time is limited, but I think I can do a mentorship. Please email me
directly, I'd like to have a quick conversation to make sure our
expectations are aligned. Following that, I will submit the paperwork
required on my end to become a mentor. To answer your question, I believe
you need to submit your application to the ASF or to Google, I think its
Google. You'll need to do some research on your end to figure out which
steps exactly need to be taken on your side.

Sorry, I haven't been more on this- again, blaming working on 0.13.0
release.

Best wishes, and thank you for your interest.

Talk soon,
tg


Trevor Grant
Data Scientist
https://github.com/rawkintrevo
http://stackexchange.com/users/3002022/rawkintrevo
http://trevorgrant.org

*"Fortunate is he, who is able to know the causes of things." -Virgil*

Post by Aditya
Thanks for the advice Saikat. I'll try to get some hands on experience. I
have gone through the mail thread " Contributing an algorithm for Samsara "
and was wondering if there are any unit tests / any bug fixes pending to
which I could contribute.
I will also go through the list of issues in Jira and see if I can
contribute to any of them to understand the framework. I'll get back to you
if I have any questions.
Best Regards,
Aditya

Post by Saikat Kanjilal
Aditya,
Welcome to mahout, you can start by taking a look at the plan I've
outlined in the JIRA to Trevor and others and add your comments there for
tracking purposes, I am looking to get a shell API up for review in its
very crude state hopefully in the next week or two based on the outlined
plan. Also depending on your experience level it may be worthwhile to
solve a few simple issues first which require getting your hands into the
code, for example unit tests are a good place to do that to understand

the

Post by Saikat Kanjilal
Samsara framework before implementing any large algorithm. My 2 cents

for

Post by Saikat Kanjilal
what its worth. Use the dev list for help as needed.
Thanks
________________________________
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 12:03 AM
Subject: Regarding Issue MAHOUT-1941
Hello Saikat,
I have been talking to Trevor in relation to contributing to Apache

Mahout

Post by Saikat Kanjilal
in terms of Algorithm development / improvements and he suggested that
currently you and Jim are working on Generalized Linear Model.
I was looking through the list of issues and found issue 1941 and was
wondering if there is an opportunity to contribute there. In general, I
would be grateful if you could guide me on how I can make myself useful

to

Post by Saikat Kanjilal
Apache Mahout.
Awaiting your reply.
Regards,
Aditya

[Aditya]

Hello Trevor,

I emailed you personally. Looking forward to your reply.

Regards,
Aditya

Post by Trevor Grant
Hi Aditya,
I went through and mopped up a lot of the outstanding 'beginner' issues as
part of the 0.13.0 release cycle. Sorry there isn't much there for you.
My time is limited, but I think I can do a mentorship. Please email me
directly, I'd like to have a quick conversation to make sure our
expectations are aligned. Following that, I will submit the paperwork
required on my end to become a mentor. To answer your question, I believe
you need to submit your application to the ASF or to Google, I think its
Google. You'll need to do some research on your end to figure out which
steps exactly need to be taken on your side.
Sorry, I haven't been more on this- again, blaming working on 0.13.0
release.
Best wishes, and thank you for your interest.
Talk soon,
tg
Trevor Grant
Data Scientist
https://github.com/rawkintrevo
http://stackexchange.com/users/3002022/rawkintrevo
http://trevorgrant.org
*"Fortunate is he, who is able to know the causes of things." -Virgil*

Post by Aditya
Thanks for the advice Saikat. I'll try to get some hands on experience. I
have gone through the mail thread " Contributing an algorithm for

Samsara "

Post by Aditya
and was wondering if there are any unit tests / any bug fixes pending to
which I could contribute.
I will also go through the list of issues in Jira and see if I can
contribute to any of them to understand the framework. I'll get back to

you

Post by Aditya
if I have any questions.
Best Regards,
Aditya

Post by Saikat Kanjilal
Aditya,
Welcome to mahout, you can start by taking a look at the plan I've
outlined in the JIRA to Trevor and others and add your comments there

for

Post by Aditya

Post by Saikat Kanjilal
tracking purposes, I am looking to get a shell API up for review in its
very crude state hopefully in the next week or two based on the

outlined

Post by Aditya

Post by Saikat Kanjilal
plan. Also depending on your experience level it may be worthwhile

to

Post by Aditya

Post by Saikat Kanjilal
solve a few simple issues first which require getting your hands into

the

Post by Aditya

Post by Saikat Kanjilal
code, for example unit tests are a good place to do that to understand

the

Post by Saikat Kanjilal
Samsara framework before implementing any large algorithm. My 2 cents

for

Post by Saikat Kanjilal
what its worth. Use the dev list for help as needed.
Thanks
________________________________
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 12:03 AM
Subject: Regarding Issue MAHOUT-1941
Hello Saikat,
I have been talking to Trevor in relation to contributing to Apache

Mahout

Post by Saikat Kanjilal
in terms of Algorithm development / improvements and he suggested that
currently you and Jim are working on Generalized Linear Model.
I was looking through the list of issues and found issue 1941 and was
wondering if there is an opportunity to contribute there. In general, I
would be grateful if you could guide me on how I can make myself useful

to

Post by Saikat Kanjilal
Apache Mahout.
Awaiting your reply.
Regards,
Aditya