Re: Working on nnet package

[Evangelos Rozos]

Does anyone know who can give me write access to http://hg.code.sf.net/p/octave/nnet octave-nnet. I have some minor things to improve on.

On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 at 21:34, Evangelos Rozos <address@hidden> wrote:

Will anyone advice me what should I do to become the maintainer of this
package?

On 06/03/2019 17:14, Doug Stewart wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 8:57 AM Mohammed Elmusrati
> <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>
> wrote:
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>     Hi,
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>     Yes, I totally agree.. Machine learning is state of the art now
>     and it would be great to develop more functions to support this
>     extremely important area. Since I use Octave in my Machine
>     Learning course, I have written few functions for my students to
>     implement ANN for example. They work fine under Octave as well as
>     Matlab. But there are not similar to Matlab ANN toolbox structure.
>     I may add them to Github so wider range of users may use them.
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>     Question: Is it necessary for the developed packages to be
>     identical as Matlab toolboxes? Is it possible to have Octave style
>     CNN or Deep learning packages?
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>     Thank you
>
>     M. Elmusrati
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> About being Identical to matlab:
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> If we are not the same as matlab, then we will get a lot of complaints
> like " My code works on matlab but not on octave"
> But we can have more features and different features (better) than matlab.
> So we should try and minimize the complaints but still have unique and
> better code.
> Just my 2C worth.
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>     *From: *vrozos <mailto:address@hidden>
>     *Sent: *Wednesday, March 6, 2019 3:40 PM
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>     *Subject: *Working on nnet package
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>     The development of the NNET package by the original author,
>     Michael Schmid,
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>     stopped in 2010. Three years ago Francesco Faccio [1] volunteered to
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>     continue the development. However, NNET is still stuck on version
>     0.1.13,
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>     Last Release Date: 2010-12-02. As a result, the recent changes in
>     Octave and
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>     the deprecation of some functions (e.g. finite) have render this
>     package
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>     broken. This is a shame. NNET is not state of the art, but it is
>     the only
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>     readily available option for NN in Octave. Currently, it is
>     useless to the
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>     average Octave user only because of some very minor issues.
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>     I would like to contribute to this package doing some minor
>     development
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>     regarding the amount of work, but critical regarding the
>     functionality (e.g.
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>     replace deprecated functions and symbols, improve documents, etc.).
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>     I am familiar with Mercurial and Github, but I don't know how
>     Sourceforge
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>     works.
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>     Regards
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>     Evangelos Rozos
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