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Updating with talking points from Sept. 2 discussion
author Dumitru Erhan <dumitru.erhan@gmail.com>
date Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:01:02 -0400
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1 Discussion of Function Specification for Dataset Types
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4 Some talking points from the September 2 meeting:
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6 * Datasets as views/tasks (Pascal Vincent's idea): our dataset specification
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7 needs to be flexible enough to accommodate different (sub)tasks and views of
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8 the same underlying data.
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9 * Datasets as probability distributions from which one can sample.
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10 * Our specification should allow transparent handling of infinite datasets (or
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11 simply datasets which cannot fit in memory)
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12 * GPU/buffering issues.
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14 Commiteee: DE, OB, OD, AB, PV