# HG changeset patch
# User Dumitru Erhan <dumitru.erhan@gmail.com>
# Date 1283522462 14400
# Node ID a5886b394bdabbb0e433d546717a220730b6eab6
# Parent  2e515be92a0e6091b85e9594a8aba2d677ca7571
Updating with talking points from Sept. 2 discussion

diff -r 2e515be92a0e -r a5886b394bda doc/v2_planning/dataset.txt
--- a/doc/v2_planning/dataset.txt	Thu Sep 02 22:28:32 2010 -0400
+++ b/doc/v2_planning/dataset.txt	Fri Sep 03 10:01:02 2010 -0400
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
 Discussion of Function Specification for Dataset Types
 ======================================================
 
+Some talking points from the September 2 meeting:
+
+ * Datasets as views/tasks (Pascal Vincent's idea): our dataset specification
+ needs to be flexible enough to accommodate different (sub)tasks and views of
+ the same underlying data.
+ * Datasets as probability distributions from which one can sample.
+ * Our specification should allow transparent handling of infinite datasets (or
+ simply datasets which cannot fit in memory)
+ * GPU/buffering issues.
+
+Commiteee: DE, OB, OD, AB, PV
diff -r 2e515be92a0e -r a5886b394bda doc/v2_planning/existing_python_ml_libraries.txt
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/doc/v2_planning/existing_python_ml_libraries.txt	Fri Sep 03 10:01:02 2010 -0400
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+Committee members: GD, DWF, IG, DE
+
+This committee will investigate the possibility of interfacing and/or
+borrowing from other Python machine learning libraries that exist out there.
+Some questions that we need to answer:
+
+ * How much should we try to interface with other libraries? 
+ * What parts can we and should we implement ourselves and what should we leave
+ to the other libraries?
+
+Preliminary list of libraries to look at:
+
+ * Pybrain
+ * MDP
+ * Orange
+ * Shogun python bindings
+ * libsvm python bindings
+