[Campaign-news] Smoke Test

[whsu at sfsu.edu]

Hi Kai,

Sure, let's meet next week to firm up our current conversations about  
setting up the repository, and test data sets. Marc is not feeling  
well this week, and we've been busy battling some problems on another  
GPU-related project of ours, so things haven't been moving on that  
front.

I can't do Monday the 9th, but the rest of the week looks ok.

Bill

Quoting Kai Kohlhoff <kohlhoff at stanford.edu>:

> Hi Bill and Marc,
>
> I have a small FEATURE data set that we can use for testing, bit will
> also look for something bigger. For k-centers I just completed a
> protein rmsd kernel.
>
> K-centers is currently deterministic for a given seed, but this comes
> at a performance cost. This can be easily overcome, though, because
> clusters are always the same. Only their sequence changes.
>
> I will be back in the office on Wednesday and will get back to you then.
>
> Would it make sense to have another meeting the week after next?
>
> - Kai
>
> Sent from my kaiPhone.  Apologies for brevity or unusual tone.
>
> On Oct 30, 2009, at 14:39, whsu at sfsu.edu wrote:
>
>> I assume Kai probably has a small test data set that he uses?   
>> k-centers can probably be deterministic if we fix the initial seed   
>> cluster, and have a tie-breaking mechanism for data points that are  
>>  equi-distant from two clusters (there might be something in Kai's   
>> code already). I need to spend a bit more time with the k-means   
>> code...
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> Quoting Marc Sosnick <marcsosnick at mac.com>:
>>
>>> Kai, Bill:
>>>
>>> Before I post to the software repository, I want to have the initial
>>> reorganization of the system completed.  To do this I will be rewriting
>>> all the scripts in PERL and normalizing the deployment process.
>>>
>>> To be in compliance with standard SE practices, we should have some
>>> sort of smoke test against which we can test so that we don't post
>>> non-working code to the library.  I was wondering if either of you had
>>> a good idea as to what that smoke test could entail?  Perhaps a known
>>> dataset and algorithm against which we could test?  Of course, it would
>>> mean that whatever we choose, the result must be deterministic.
>>>
>>> I look forward to your ideas...
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
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