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Re: Octave-maintainers Digest, Vol 120, Issue 61


From: shubham negi
Subject: Re: Octave-maintainers Digest, Vol 120, Issue 61
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 13:24:58 +0530

hey, i am intersted in going on with Gosc. please forward me more
details how to get start with this project ?

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>    1. [GSoC] An interested student with some questions
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>    2. [GSoC] An interested student with some questions
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>    3. About a little question (=?ISO-8859-1?B?RWR3YXJkIFN1bg==?=)
>    4. Re: GSOC 16, Improvements to sqrtm,logm and funm (Carn? Draug)
>    5. Re: package database-2.4.0 released (Olaf Till)
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> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 16:29:17 +0100
> From: Damjan Angelovski <address@hidden>
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> Subject: [GSoC] An interested student with some questions
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> Hi,
>
> I'm Damjan Angelovski, an IT student from Skopje, Macedonia, and i am
> interested in working on Octave at this google summer of code. I have some
> questions:
>
> 1. Is working on packages athttp://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.php (or
> other open source packages) a valid proposal for GSoC? From them i am
> mostly interested in nan, parallel, mvn, strings, geometry. Got some ideas
> on those.
>
> 2. From the proposed ideas I am mostly interested for the Numerical
> projects. What is the interest level on those, so i know on which to focus
> on?
>
> 3. I have read what there is to read. What is next? My guess is building
> the development version of Octave.
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Damjan Angelovski
> BEST Skopje
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> *Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje*
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> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 16:29:17 +0100
> From: Damjan Angelovski <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Subject: [GSoC] An interested student with some questions
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> Hi,
>
> I'm Damjan Angelovski, an IT student from Skopje, Macedonia, and i am
> interested in working on Octave at this google summer of code. I have some
> questions:
>
> 1. Is working on packages athttp://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.php (or
> other open source packages) a valid proposal for GSoC? From them i am
> mostly interested in nan, parallel, mvn, strings, geometry. Got some ideas
> on those.
>
> 2. From the proposed ideas I am mostly interested for the Numerical
> projects. What is the interest level on those, so i know on which to focus
> on?
>
> 3. I have read what there is to read. What is next? My guess is building
> the development version of Octave.
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Damjan Angelovski
> BEST Skopje
>
> *Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje*
> *Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering*
> ------------------------------------------
> *phone: +389 70 487820 *
> *email: address@hidden <address@hidden>*
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> Dear Sir,
>     My name is Zhiqing SUN. I am a freshman in Peking University, China and
> major in Computer Science. And I want to take part in GSoC and work on
> Octave Project as I sometimes use Octave to calculate matrices.
>    But there is a small problem that although I have learned coding for six
> years and have gotten good grades in China's NOIP. I think I am good at
> understanding and implementing algorithms. And I think I will get good
> grades in ACM this year. My Advanced Algebra score is also very good. But I
> am not familiar with big project at all. For example, I don't know how to
> fix the bugs in Short projects and how to  subscribe them. I am feeling very
> worried now. Would there be anything I can do? Could you give some advice?
> Yours Sincerely
> Zhiqing SUN
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> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 17:33:08 +0000
> From: Carn? Draug <address@hidden>
> To: Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso <address@hidden>
> Cc: octave-maintainers <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: GSOC 16, Improvements to sqrtm,logm and funm
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> March 2016 at 02:52, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2016-03-03 at 14:09 +0100, Marco Caliari wrote:
>>> In my humble opinion what is left is not enough for a GSOC. Jordi,
>>> you are indicated a potential mentor, what do you think? Carn??
>>
>> I think there's still lots of work to be done. Although Higham has
>> published a lot of code, there are still things to be done. Not all of
>> the work he and his colleagues have published has made it into free
>> code; a lot of it is only in proprietary Matlab code. This includes
>> some of the most interesting things, such as the funm function. We are
>> in effect reproducing many years of work by a large team of
>> researchers. We're lucky that the papers all published; "all" that has
>> to be done is distill the knowledge into Octave code. There's plenty
>> of meat here for a GSoC project and beyond.
>>
>> For example, how much more work is there before the `mft_test` command
>> available here passes on Octave? How about making it pass with speed
>> comparable to Matlab?
>>
>>     http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~higham/mftoolbox/
>>
>> This seems like a very nice, concrete goal to aim for. What do you
>> think?
>
> Here's my notes from the few meetings we had last year with Antonio
> Pino (the GSoC student that disappeared after the initial payment).
>
> This was going to be the work plan (I don't see reason to deviate
> much from it):
>
> * Create repositories for Higham's toolboxes, and code from his papers.
> * We don't know which of his code works, and which does not, in Octave.
>   So start by writing several Octave tests for all this functions.  In many
>   cases, tests are described on the papers and reports.
> * Do not modify the code to it work in Octave.  We have more interest in
>   improving Octave so that it works out of the box.  That maximizes the use
>   of the work done for all the community.  Only change code to work around
>   undocumented Matlab features that we do not want in Octave such as for
>   loop to "Inf", or "superiorfloat" (but still report them in Octave bug
>   tracker).
> * Higham's code uses a lot of loops that will not be accepted in core.
>   Vectorize those operations (likely to not be possible), or reimplement
>   them in C++.  Use the tests that are already written.
>
> Some notes from other meetings:
>
> * sqrtm.cc already implements Higham's code.  Compare with his published
>   code and write tests for this.  Read section 6 of Numerical Analysis
>   Report 336.
> * Add sqrtm tests for %!warning
> * Get familiar with xpow.cc since there will be a lot of work done in
>   that file.
> * Write tests for gallery().
> * Start by working on the Test Matrix Toolbox which seems to be the easiest
>   and mostly working out of the box.
>
> Carn?
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 19:18:43 +0100
> From: Olaf Till <address@hidden>
> To: "Montgomery-Smith, Stephen" <address@hidden>
> Cc: octave-maintainers <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: package database-2.4.0 released
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> Ok, thanks for doing all this.
>
> So make rebuilds database.info although it is up-to-date ...? I'm not
> aware of a make option or environment variable which makes it do such
> things, but maybe something like this is the reason ... In this case,
> it would probably be really best for you to remove the target 'doc'
> from the Makefile, as you suggested in your previous post.
>
> If it's not too much effort, we could try to find the reason for
> failing anyway. MFDOCSTRINS is deleted by make after building. You can
> produce it manually by going into src/ and giving the command:
>
> ./mkdoc.pl ../inst/getdbopts.m ../inst/setdbopts.m ../inst/pq_exec_params.m
> ../inst/pq_connect.m ../inst/database_doc.m ../inst/__all_db_opts__.m
> ../inst/pq_lo_view.m > MFDOCSTRINGS
>
> (I've moved to the maintainers list.)
>
> Olaf
>
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