Nicolas Hug

Hi @ziyadmsq , I'd suggest looking at our FAQ https://surprise.readthedocs.io/en/stable/FAQ.html, and possibly start with the getting-started guide: https://surprise.readthedocs.io/en/stable/getting_started.html

Hi @agb2k, the entry-point for similarity metrics is this function https://github.com/NicolasHug/Surprise/blob/3414ad931c1ef4630fdaf2a0ca6b8cd3cd1cbc1b/surprise/prediction_algorithms/algo_base.py#L205 Take a look at the internals. You might want to implement your function in Cython to speed it up.

Hi Marc, Thanks a lot for the PR! I think integrating docker is outside the scope of this repo, plus I'm not experienced with docker and I wouldn't have the...

You mean NDPM? I think I'd be interseted in seeing what the actual functions would look like first, for example in a FAQ entry. That would help me have a...

Thanks for the proposition, it can be interesting. How do you see the different input methods changing, as well as the cross-validation pipelines? As always with the addition of a...

>The only difference that I can think of right now is that two datasets will be supplied to the all the functions instead of one. I agree but that's really...

Thanks for agreeing to make these changes @parmeet , I think this will be positively impact users' experience with datapipes in the long run. Considering the release and branch cut...

Sorry, moving `save_image` probably isn't going to happen, so I'll close this issue. We acknowledge that the situation is not ideal and confusing, but moving it would still require a...

Feel free to open a separate an issue for that. We can clarify what parallelism means there. (I'm not particularly sold on the "batch saving" idea considering it's really just...

> done in parallel multithreading? multi-processing? Neither is going to help much when using the `DataLoader(num_workers=N)` because `num_threads` is set to 1 and multiprocessing is already enabled. Apart from during...