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Community Bonding

The Community Bonding period lasted from May 20 to June 12, and it was a lot of fun and fruitful. I had the wonderful opportunity to meet my mentor Sayam Kumar at an in-person meetup in Delhi on the first day of my community bonding periods. It was a fantastic day for me as we discussed about the project, took some photos 📸, and had a lot of fun. 🎉

Unfortunately, my end-semester exams began on the 25th of May and lasted until the 13th of June, so I did not have enough time to interact with the community in this period. However I managed to find some time to participate in the PyMC Developer hackathon. I worked on the issue #5581 with Maxim Kochurov and had the opportunity to meet the amazing PyMC community members, developers, and contributors. While working on this issue, I learned a lot about Variational Inference, how tests works, and more about the PyMC code base.

PyMC Developer Hackathon

GSoCers Meet

In the final week of the community bonding period Larry Dong hosted a Google meet, where I met all of the GSoC selected participants for this year. We got to know each other, talked about our projects, our interests, and had a lot of fun.

What I learned?

I didn't have much time to learn about the projects because of my end-semester exam, so I spent the last week of community bonding period by reading Aesara documentation. I learned about Aesara syntax, followed the beginner's Tutorial, and created some small programmes to become more acquainted with Aesara.

Then I learned about Aesara Ops, Graph Structures, and Aesara's Broadcasting features.

What is coming up next?

The Coding Period has already begun, and I am behind on my proposal timeline due to my university exam, but this week I will collect all of the Ops from Aesara that are used in multivariate implementations and will discuss the project's implementation with my mentor.

In addition, I am reading more about the various statistical distributions to gain a better understanding of them.

In my next blog, I'll discuss project implementation.

Thank you very much.😊

With 💖 Purna.