Awesome. Thanks, James. Gustavo -- Gustavo Lacerda http://www.optimizelife.com
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 6:44 PM, James Porter <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > >> > > >
