18:34 < win_dt> hi zoq

18:34 < win_dt> i keep getting 'no cmake_c_compiler' and 'no cmake_cxx_compiler' when i try to build the mlpack source code in cmake

18:35 < win_dt> the erroe in CmakeLists.txt is at project(mlpack c cxx)

18:35 < win_dt> Any idea how to fix this?

18:38 < rcurtin> win_dt: it sounds like CMake is not finding your C/C++ compiler; make sure that you have that installed and that CMake is looking for it in the right directories

19:54 < k9_> Hi, I have a query regarding the recent project we are working on. We are planning to build a summarization system and looking at the recent trend in research we are planning to use an encoder-decoder paradigm

19:54 < k9_> i was wondering how mlpack would be useful for this particular use case. Any comments and suggestions are appreciated. Thanks

19:59 < rcurtin> k9_: I think that you can build autoencoders with the ANN module that zoq has worked on

19:59 < rcurtin> however, the ANN code hasn't been released as part of mlpack stable yet, so you would need to work in the git master branch

20:07 < k9_> rcurtin: thanks, that looks promising. i'll have to take a deeper look, however

20:08 < k9_> could you point me to the documentation of this module? I can't seem to find it

20:08 < rcurtin> k9_: sure, hang on

20:08 < k9_> thanks :)

20:09 < rcurtin> I should also point out---the ANN module is being revamped in a pull request (https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/831) which will change the API completely

20:09 < rcurtin> I think that PR will be merged in the next couple of days, so looking at documentation for that might be the better way to go

20:09 < rcurtin> I think that the actual user documentation is not quite done yet though; however, you can take a look at some of the tests to see how the networks are built and trained

20:10 < rcurtin> https://github.com/zoq/mlpack/blob/ann/src/mlpack/tests/feedforward_network_test.cpp for instance has a few cases of networks being built and trained

20:11 < k9_> I see. Not a problem. I think for now i'd try to figure out through those tests as you suggest. Good start so far

20:15 < rcurtin> yeah; feel free to ask any questions if you have any

20:15 < rcurtin> I'm excited about the ANN package, and I'm looking forward to when we can release it as a part of mlpack

20:15 < rcurtin> it's nicely designed internally so I think it can be a nice way to build neural networks in C++ that are fast

20:17 < k9_> Nice, i'm starting to feel good about my decision to go with mlpack for our problem :)

20:17 < k9_> eagerly looking forward to the latest release

20:22 < rcurtin> :)