[SciPy-User] Google Summer of Code...

[Jarrod Millman]

Hello Sebastian,

Thanks for taking the time to outline a potential GSoC project.  It is
definitely worth taking the time to add it to the wiki:
http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/wiki/SummerofCodeIdeas

Unfortunately, though, it isn't likely that a project like this will
be accepted this year.  But it will be nice to have the proposal
written down because someone might decide to work on it without a GSoC
or someone might do the project next year.

I forwarded an email from Titus Brown, which explains that the PSF
will be looking for Py3K-related projects this year.  So if we get any
GSoC projects funded this year, they will probably be focused on
porting numpy, scipy, matplotlib, ipython, etc. to Py3K.

Thanks,
Jarrod

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Sebastian Walter
<sebastian.walter at gmail.com> wrote:
> I could mentor an algorithmic differentiation (AD) project, but I'm
> still not quite sure how to proceed.
> Should I write up a proposal on the wiki and after that propose the
> project on the
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/soc2010-mentors mailing list?
>
> I have already created a package that I believe would be a very good
> addition to scipy/numpy (preferably numpy) when it is mature enough.
> It is hosted on http://github.com/b45ch1/taylorpoly
>
> The package is not an AD tool but makes it very easy to create AD
> tools using those algorithms.
> An illustrative example how to do (forward mode) AD is given in:
> http://github.com/b45ch1/taylorpoly/blob/master/examples/utps_for_algorithmic_differentiation.py
>
> What is missing up to now are differentiated algorithms for tan, atan,
> asin, sinh, etc. (in Taylor arithmetic)
> as well as the core algorithms for reverse mode AD.
>
> Implementing those algorithms should be doable in 4 months. Also,
> since the task is to implement many small algorithms,
> this project is unlikely to fail completely. The worst that can happen
> is that not as many algorithms get implemented as one could wish for.
>
> Could anyone give feedback if that project is ok?
>
> best regards,
> Sebastian