Google Summer of Code 2016 Only A Few Hours Left

[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 19 February 2016 at 21:10:45 UTC, Dave wrote:
>
> Good starting points for a GSOC project would be "to port" 
> mc-stan.org or some optimization algorithms from Coin-OR.org 
> (please let me be more particular and independent of existing 
> work if there is any interest for such a project!).
>

I've written bindings for nlopt and a wrapper to make it more 
D-like. Close to releasing it. I'm also thinking about doing the 
same thing for GLPK, but I want to do other non-D stuff before I 
get to that. The only optimization library I'm familiar with in 
Coin-OR is ipopt and that's C++, which might be more difficult to 
get working.

Being able to call Stan from D would definitely be cool. It looks 
beyond my expertise to get it working though. I think part of the 
difficulty is that while it is written in C++, there isn't a C++ 
interface. I think they are working on one though. I looked at 
the code for rstan and the command line interface and couldn't 
make much headway in understanding what's going on.

It should be possible to do some manipulation in D and pipe it to 
the command line interface of Stan. Alternately, you could try 
calling pystan or rstan from D. If you make any progress on these 
approaches, I would be interested.