03:40 < rcurtin> finally got https://www.mlpack.org working and signed correctly

12:48 < zoq> rcurtin: nice, let's encrypt does an awesome job.

14:20 < rcurtin> agreed, it was very simple... I used acmetool to automatically get and renew the certificates

16:15 < akshay> hii everyone i am akshay, a BTech 3rd year student in computer science

16:16 < akshay> i want to contribute to mlpack and participate in gsoc 2018. I have downloaded all the files and have read a lot from the website of mlpack tutorials

16:17 < akshay> I really want help with how to proceed with mlpack now and contribute to fix some bug. thanks in advance

16:19 < zoq> akshay: Hello there, in case you haven't seen: mlpack.org/gsoc.html and www.mlpack.org/involved.html both pages provide a bunch of helpful information.

16:21 < akshay> @zoq okayy i am going through that. thank you

16:21 < zoq> If you have any further questions don't hesitate to ask.

17:01 < akshay> @zoq i have executed the covariance program but I cannot understand the data.csv and cov.csv file, where are these files??

17:07 < zoq> akshay: cov.csv contains the data, you can use your own data or you can use: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mlpack/mlpack/master/src/mlpack/tests/data/fake.csv

17:07 < zoq> cov.csv is the output file that contains the computed covariance matrix

17:08 < zoq> so, after you run the program there should be a new file called cov.csv

17:08 < akshay> zoq: okay and what about the data.csv file that we are loading through the load method?

17:09 < zoq> you can use any file e.g. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mlpack/mlpack/master/src/mlpack/tests/data/fake.csv

17:09 < zoq> just renmae fake.csv to data.csv and it should work just fine

17:09 < zoq> or adjust the example to load fake.csv instead of data.csv

17:14 < akshay> zoq: okay yes this makes sense now. Thanks a lot. By the way, are you a mentor for this organization or one of the contributors?

17:17 < rcurtin> zoq: can you see any reason to keep the ubuntu-toolchain-r/test PPA in the travis build? I'm not seeing where it's actually used later in the build, I think maybe we can remove it

17:18 < zoq> akshay: Mentor/Contributor, in fact some of the last GSoC students are now mentors as well.

17:19 < zoq> rcurtin: No, I guess it was there to get a specifc boost/gcc version?

17:20 < rcurtin> that must have been the case, I'll suggest removing it in #1174

17:20 < akshay> zoq: oh okay. But you have been really helpful. Thanks a lot. It's really difficult to get started with any project but now I think I can contribute something to this org

17:20 < zoq> Happy to help :)

17:21 < zoq> rcurtin: ah, good idea, no need to add another workaround

17:26 < rcurtin> I also wonder if the entire set of changes I made to disable the apt-daily job are still necessary; it's possible that travis auto-disables that now

17:27 < rcurtin> when I did all that work I wasn't really sure I was solving the problem the right way, and it didn't seem to always fix it...

17:28 < zoq> agreed, fine for me to remove the steps

17:56 < miqlas> hi Guys!

17:57 < miqlas> rcurtin, i got the stickers. Thanks!

17:57 < miqlas> I know, Marcus sent them, but i don't know his nick on IRC.

18:09 < rcurtin> miqlas: great to hear you got them :)

18:09 < rcurtin> Marcus is zoq :)

18:24 < miqlas> zoq, thanks the stickers.

18:43 < zoq> miqlas: you're welcome :)

22:30 < shikhar> Hi! I'm Shikhar, a prospective GSoC student with mlpack. Anyone here to help me with my queries?