<div dir="ltr">Hey Marcus,<div><br></div><div>Thanks a lot for your suggestions. I am going through the literature and would prepare a first draft of the proposal after which I would have better understanding of which algorithm to start with CNE or NEAT.</div><div><br></div><div>You rightly pointed out that writing test cases might take longer, so I would spend some understanding about testing evolutionary algorithms and mlpack is doing thing.</div><div><br></div><div>I would go through the floss manual so I can write a good proposal, things seem to have changed a bit from last year.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Regards,</div><div>Nakul Gulati</div><div><a href="https://nakulgulati.com/">Web<span id="goog_22996122"></span><span id="goog_22996123"></span>site</a> || <a href="http://in.linkedin.com/in/nakulgulati">LinkedIn</a> || <a href="https://github.com/nakulgulati/">GitHub</a></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Marcus Edel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marcus.edel@fu-berlin.de" target="_blank">marcus.edel@fu-berlin.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Hello Nakul,</div><div><br></div><div>It is a good decision to start with something easy that could be CNE or NEAT.</div><div>Afterwards, we can use that as a baseline for comparison with other</div><div>implementation. You should keep in mind, that you have to write tests, for every</div><div>evolution algorithm you write, and that often takes more time than the actual</div><div>implementation. Anyway, this year google made draft proposals part of the</div><div>proposal workflow. So we can comment on your timeline etc. and give feedback</div><div>once you submitted your application. Also take a look at:</div><div><a href="http://write.flossmanuals.net/gsocstudentguide/" target="_blank">http://write.flossmanuals.net/gsocstudentguide/</a></div><div><br></div><div>I hope this is helpful. Let me know if I can clarify anything,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Marcus</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div>On 10 Mar 2016, at 04:12, Nakul Gulati <<a href="mailto:nakgulati@gmail.com" target="_blank">nakgulati@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br></div></div><div><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I am a final year Computer Science and Engineering student. I am interested in contributing to the project <b>Neuroevolution algorithms</b> as part of GSoC 2016. Some of the courses completed which are relevant to this project are: Data Structures and Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Soft Computing and Artificial Neural Networks.</div><div><br></div><div>In order to get better understanding about the project and mlpack, the following steps were taken:</div><div><ul><li>Compiled and tested mlpack on OS X</li><li>Compiled and tested nes emulator communication code: during this I ended up crashing the emulator hosted on <a href="http://mario.urgs.org/" target="_blank">mario.urgs.org</a> 4561, <a href="https://github.com/zoq/nes/issues/1" target="_blank">link to issue</a>. Which was promptly fixed by Marcus Edel, big shout out to him.</li></ul><div>Currently I am studying the reading material, starting with the CNE algorithm.</div></div><div><br></div><div>For scope of GSoC project I propose to start with the implementation of the CNE algorithm at first and then move to a second (name would be specified soon) if time permits.</div><div><br></div><div>I have little trouble setting up an exact timeline for the project. I would love to hear your insight about the approach and timeline and if you think what I propose is realistic.</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Regards,<br>Nakul Gulati</div><div><a href="https://nakulgulati.com/" target="_blank">Website</a> || <a href="http://in.linkedin.com/in/nakulgulati" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> || <a href="https://github.com/nakulgulati/" target="_blank">GitHub</a></div></div></div></div></div>
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