[Numpy-discussion] Contribution

[Dmitriy Rybalkin]

I added the page LinearClassification to Numpy/Scipy Cookbook
http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/LinearClassification, hope that it won't
be deleted

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Dmitriy Rybalkin
<dmitriy.rybalkin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you, Gael, I really hope that I'll improve my programming skills.
> Also I have a question: Will the page with my example be deleted in
> case the code is not efficient or smth else has been found to be
> wrong?
>
> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Gael Varoquaux
> <gael.varoquaux at normalesup.org> wrote:
>> I Dmitriy,
>>
>> Welcome.
>>
>> This is a great initiative. You'll learn by doing, and I am willing to
>> bet that contributing examples can make you a good programmer.
>>
>> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 09:47:24PM +0400, Dmitriy Rybalkin wrote:
>>> I thought I could contribute to the Numpy project by
>>> showing some examples of simple classification techniques (Fisher
>>> discriminant function, Naive Bayes) which use numpy functions. So,
>>> I'am inquiring about such contribution and some details: can I do that
>>> and, if yes, then how can I submit such example or should I only
>>> modify the Wiki page and request the permission?
>>
>> It might be interesting to stress on the corresponding wiki pages that
>> these methods are available in readily coded package, such as the
>> scikits.learn. The reason I stress this is that code on a wiki page tends
>> to go unmaintained, while a great deal of quality assurance goes in the
>> standard software packages.
>>
>> Gaël
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