06:30 < kakarot> hello everyone! I am new around here and came to know of mlpack from the Last year GSoC list. I have decent exposure to ML and neural nets. Any recommendations on how to get started/some starter tasks that can get me up to speed with how things work around here? TIA

12:23 < zoq> kakarot: Hello there, have you seen this page: http://www.mlpack.org/involved.html. That might be helpful for you in figuring out how to contribute and how to get started. Let us know if we can clarify anything.

12:27 < kakarot> zoq: Thank you, I will get back in touch here when further guidance is needed.

12:28 < zoq> kakarot: Sounds good.

13:40 < Kirizaki> Hi there

13:41 < Kirizaki> should I make armadillo DEBUG=ON if I want make mlpack DEBUG=on?

13:42 < Kirizaki> because I build armadillo without debug, later build mlpack with -DDEBUG=ON

13:42 < Kirizaki> compile, include mlpack in random project

13:42 < Kirizaki> and I'm having non-debug build

13:54 < Kirizaki> I'll try some other flow to build but if still fail I'll send some logs

16:52 < rcurtin> Kirizaki: armadillo configuration shouldn't matter, because Armadillo is basically header only

16:52 < rcurtin> even if you use the wrapper (libarmadillo.so) it isn't affected by any debug flag or anything

17:43 < Kirizaki> ok

18:12 < Kirizaki> for sure DEBUG definition is NULL

18:13 < Kirizaki> due to IF(NOT MSVC) in CMakeLists.txt (130-132)

18:15 < Kirizaki> add_definitions(-DDEBUG) only when it's NOT MSVC

18:16 < Kirizaki> but still doesn't test it

18:16 < Kirizaki> I'm gonna build it right now

18:22 < rcurtin> I think that the debug definition has to be added differently with MSVC, but I've never looked into it

20:05 < arvind> Hello! I am Arvind, a GSOC aspirant. I wanted to know if one needs to have a sound background in Neural Networks in order to take up a project?