hi all, My main interest in JuliaCon is to discuss/plan the development of statistics and machine learning libraries. I'm hoping for some hacking sessions, pair programming, etc.
Given that the conference is single-track, will there be space for this? How many people are interested in this? Gustavo On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:51 AM, James Porter <porterjam...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all— > > As far as Patrick's question goes— > > It is true that a lot of the talks at the conference are going to be about > fairly advanced topics (Julia internals, a prototype Julia typechecker, > etc.). That said there will also be a number of talks that deal with using > Julia to solve some sort of technical computing problem (e.g. parallelizing > sparse matrix multiplication), which even novice Julia users will probably > be able to appreciate provided that they have some understanding of the > mathematical/scientific content. So I would say in order to get a lot out of > the conference, attendees should probably ether be relatively experienced > Julia users, or have domain knowledge in one or more areas that Julia is > used in (numerical linear algebra, statistics, machine learning, etc.) > > As far as Luis's question— > > Yes, we've been meaning to get this information up for a while, it should be > on the website soon. > > Cheers, > James > > > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Luis Benet <luis.bene...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> can you post some information/recommendation about nearby hotels or other >> accommodation possibilities? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Luis > >
