On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 01:37:16PM -0500, Marcus Edel wrote: > Hello, > > > mlpack video meetings: > > What about we create a shared document (e.g. google docs) and use that to > manage > the meetings, if someone has a particular question or topic they like to > discuss > they can write it down before the meeting. This allows us to prepare for > certain > topics. We can also keep track of what was discussed in the meetings.
That sounds good to me if you want to set it up; alternately we can just send an email to the list beforehand and people could respond to it with ideas. Either is fine honestly. > > giving talks on mlpack: > > > > mlpack talks/workshops - this is a very good point. I've been doing some of > > this > > and it really pays off. The amount of user conversion you get by doing this > > is > > superior to opportunistic discoveries of the library. And I truly believe we > > need more users and more engagement. After all, that's why we build mlpack, > > right? I would add that we also need talks and workshops that are *not* > > super > > technical. For new users (consumers of the library I mean), metaprogramming > > is > > not really attractive. Instead, these users are looking forward a > > simple-useful-easy "Hello World" that delivers instantaneous value. Take a > > look > > at scikit-learn for instance, it's all about examples and ready to consume > > snippets. > > Agreed, maybe we can put a list together with events (local/global) as a > starting point. Sounds good---I'll see if I can compile a list of events I'm interested in in the near future and we can share it here or somewhere. > > C++ notebooks: > > I have a setup running that I can make accessible, Sylvain used Binder, which > has some limitations like 1-2GB of memory, kernel shutdown after 10 minutes of > inactivity. If I'm thinking about running neural network examples, we might > run > into the mentioned limitations. Sounds good---we can also use some of mlpack.org's resources for this, and NumFOCUS might be able to help with the resources also via connections to large companies or something? I'm not sure. -- Ryan Curtin | "Wha' happened?" [email protected] | - Mike LaFontaine _______________________________________________ mlpack mailing list [email protected] http://knife.lugatgt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlpack
