Hey Gustavo, I think what you're looking for will be the primary focus of the Hack Day we're holding at the University of Chicago the Saturday after the conference. Register on Meetup if you want to attend!: http://www.meetup.com/JuliaChicago/events/181343542/
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Gustavo Lacerda <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> can you post some information/recommendation about nearby hotels or > other > >> accommodation possibilities? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Luis > > > > >
