[Boston.pm-announce] No August Meeting; No Website

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce]

(1) August is canceled.

(2) We'll have a meeting in September; 2nd Tuesday is the 11th --
Where is TBD; maybe at MIT, maybe in Waltham.
If Waltham, it'll be near (T) bus and train as well as parking; and
I'll provide Car Pool out and or back for anyone that wants to.

(3) Our Wiki is down. Free provider has pulled the plug.
(In copious spare time, Tom and I are looking for right replacement.)
So temporarily boston.pm.org DNS points to a 404-ish page :-(


(4) Meantime, our Twitter, Facebook, G+, MeetUp, LinkedIn, and these
two Mailing Lists provide redundant communications.

https://twitter.com/BostonPM
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=134089120681
https://plus.google.com/communities/113462745547836195580
https://plus.google.com/114663318510475261282
https://www.meetup.com/Boston-pm/
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/41363
https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm-announce
https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

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[Boston.pm] No August Meeting; No Website

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

(1) August is canceled.

(2) We'll have a meeting in September; 2nd Tuesday is the 11th --
Where is TBD; maybe at MIT, maybe in Waltham.
If Waltham, it'll be near (T) bus and train as well as parking; and
I'll provide Car Pool out and or back for anyone that wants to.

(3) Our Wiki is down. Free provider has pulled the plug.
(In copious spare time, Tom and I are looking for right replacement.)
So temporarily boston.pm.org DNS points to a 404-ish page :-(


(4) Meantime, our Twitter, Facebook, G+, MeetUp, LinkedIn, and these
two Mailing Lists provide redundant communications.

https://twitter.com/BostonPM
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=134089120681
https://plus.google.com/communities/113462745547836195580
https://plus.google.com/114663318510475261282
https://www.meetup.com/Boston-pm/
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/41363
https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm-announce
https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

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[Boston.pm] No July Meeting

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

We have nothing prepared for a July meeting and it's hot and the elevator
still wasn't fixed last week, and it's summer so probably people have other
things to do.

Should we try August 14th or just reconvene in September?

Note also there may be some downtime on boston.pm.org website. The free
wiki provider we have been using is shutting down. We'll prop it up
somewhere else, and get the DNS re-directed.
While it's down, and after, we can be found on twitter @BostonPM , Facebook
(page and group), and  MeetUp .


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[Boston.pm] No meeting night

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There will be no June meeting this month.

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[Boston.pm-announce] No meeting night

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There will be no June meeting this month.

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[Boston.pm] TONIGHT Re: Tech meeting 5/8: shorts: Signatures and Precision

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

​​Our next tech meeting is TONIGHT -- Tuesay, May 8.

We'll watch (dissect?) two shorter conference videos, with our usual
MST3K commentary and rabbit-hole research. Topics are 3 dialects of
Function Signatures in  recent Perls and infinite precision
computation in Perl 6.

Location: MIT Building 51, Room 372, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA

NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
(parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
circling), and paid lot/garages.
Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)
Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.

Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE:  we're moving back to the squarer room 372 (first door after
the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had the last
several years)

http://boston.pm.org/Calendar
http://boston.pm.org/MIT%20Directions  << Details on parking options and
transit
​


​


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[Boston.pm-announce] TONIGHT Re: Tech meeting 5/8: shorts: Signatures and Precision

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce]

​​Our next tech meeting is TONIGHT -- Tuesay, May 8.

We'll watch (dissect?) two shorter conference videos, with our usual
MST3K commentary and rabbit-hole research. Topics are 3 dialects of
Function Signatures in  recent Perls and infinite precision
computation in Perl 6.

Location: MIT Building 51, Room 372, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA

NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
(parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
circling), and paid lot/garages.
Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)
Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.

Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE:  we're moving back to the squarer room 372 (first door after
the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had the last
several years)

http://boston.pm.org/Calendar
http://boston.pm.org/MIT%20Directions  << Details on parking options and
transit
​


​


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[Boston.pm] Tech meeting 5/8: shorts: Signatuers and Precision

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

May the Fourth be with you !
Our next tech meeting is Tuesay, May 8.

We'll watch (dissect?) two shorter conference videos, with our usual
MST3K commentary and rabbit-hole research. Topics are 3 dialects of
Function Signatures in  recent Perls and infinite precision
computation in Perl 6.

Location: MIT Building 51, Room 372, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA

NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
(parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
circling), and paid lot/garages.
Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)
Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.

Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE:  we're moving back to the squarer room 372 (first door after
the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had the last
several years)

http://boston.pm.org/Calendar
http://boston.pm.org/MIT%20Directions  << Details on parking options and transit

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[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting TONIGHT: Federico Live! Hardware! GPS! Randomness with Radiation!

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

April 10th (2nd Tuesday=TODAY)  last reminder

Federico Lucifredi / Hardware Hacking 101: time and randomness

Abstract:
Using the lowest amount of custom hardware and pouring Perl over
everything as the glue binding it all, we create two minimalistic
devices delivering a perfectly tuned network time source
(synchronizing with a GPS satellite), and a naturally random entropy
source (leveraging a Geiger tube’s measurement of natural background
radiation).

Location: MIT Building 51, Room 372, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA

NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages no
longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
So parking on-site is AT OWN RISK. And Construction Detour again too.
See web for details.

  http://boston.pm.org/Calendar
  http://boston.pm.org/MIT%20Directions



>> Boilerplate details
>>
>> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
>> building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
>> nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
>> Talk begins at 7:30.
>> Refreshments in the hallway prior.
>> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
>> Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.
>>
>>
>> (NOTE: as of Fall 2017: we'r back to the squarer room 372 (first door
>> after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had the
>> last several years)
>
>
> --
> Bill Ricker
> bill.n1...@gmail.com
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Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Federico Live! GPS! Randomness with Radiation!

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

MONDAY REMINDER: TOMORROW

April 10th (2nd Tuesday)
Federico Lucifredi / Hardware Hacking 101: time and randomness

Abstract:
Using the lowest amount of custom hardware and pouring Perl over
everything as the glue binding it all, we create two minimalistic
devices delivering a perfectly tuned network time source
(synchronizing with a GPS satellite), and a naturally random entropy
source (leveraging a Geiger tube’s measurement of natural background
radiation).

Location: MIT Building 51, Room 372, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA

> NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages no
longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
So parking on-site is AT OWN RISK. And Construction Detour again too.
See web for details.

  http://boston.pm.org/Calendar
  http://boston.pm.org/MIT%20Directions

> Boilerplate details
>
> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
> building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
> nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
> Talk begins at 7:30.
> Refreshments in the hallway prior.
> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
> Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.
>
>
> (NOTE: as of Fall 2017: we'r back to the squarer room 372 (first door
> after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had the
> last several years)


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[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Federico Live! GPS! Randomness with Radiation!

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

Next Meeting
April 10th (2nd Tuesday)
Federico Lucifredi / Hardware Hacking 101: time and randomness

Abstract:
Using the lowest amount of custom hardware and pouring Perl over
everything as the glue binding it all, we create two minimalistic
devices delivering a perfectly tuned network time source
(synchronizing with a GPS satellite), and a naturally random entropy
source (leveraging a Geiger tube’s measurement of natural background
radiation).

Location: MIT Building 51, Room 372, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA

NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages no
longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
So parking on-site is AT OWN RISK. And Construction Detour again too.
See web for details.

  http://boston.pm.org/Calendar
  http://boston.pm.org/MIT%20Directions

Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE: as of Fall 2017: we'r back to the squarer room 372 (first door
after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had the
last several years)

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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting: Federico Live! GPS! Randomness with Radiation!

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce]

Next Meeting
April 10th (2nd Tuesday)
Federico Lucifredi / Hardware Hacking 101: time and randomness

Abstract:
Using the lowest amount of custom hardware and pouring Perl over
everything as the glue binding it all, we create two minimalistic
devices delivering a perfectly tuned network time source
(synchronizing with a GPS satellite), and a naturally random entropy
source (leveraging a Geiger tube’s measurement of natural background
radiation).

Location: MIT Building 51, Room 372, 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA

NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages no
longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
So parking on-site is AT OWN RISK. And Construction Detour again too.
See web for details.

  http://boston.pm.org/Calendar
  http://boston.pm.org/MIT%20Directions

Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE: as of Fall 2017: we'r back to the squarer room 372 (first door
after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had the
last several years)

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[Boston.pm-announce] April 10 - Federico Lucifredi - Time and Randomness in Hardware using Perl

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce]

Next Meeting:
April 10th (2nd Tues.; MIT; 7p)

Federico Lucifredi

Hardware Hacking 101: time and randomness (using Perl)

*Abstract*: Using the lowest amount of custom hardware and pouring Perl
over everything as the glue binding it all, we create two minimalistic
devices delivering a perfectly tuned network time source (synchronizing
with a GPS satellite), and a naturally random entropy source (leveraging a
Geiger tube’s measurement of natural background radiation).

See changed Parking information on Calendar page!

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[Boston.pm] April 10 - Federico Lucifredi - Time and Randomness in Hardware using Perl

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

Next Meeting:
April 10th (2nd Tues.; MIT; 7p)

Federico Lucifredi

Hardware Hacking 101: time and randomness (using Perl)

*Abstract*: Using the lowest amount of custom hardware and pouring Perl
over everything as the glue binding it all, we create two minimalistic
devices delivering a perfectly tuned network time source (synchronizing
with a GPS satellite), and a naturally random entropy source (leveraging a
Geiger tube’s measurement of natural background radiation).

See changed Parking information on Calendar page!

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[Boston.pm-announce] No March Meeting

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce]

With Winter Storm Watch posted for Tuesday, we're going to punt on meeting
and concentrate on lining up a good speaker for April 10th.

http://boston.pm.org/Calendar/

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[Boston.pm] No March Meeting

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

With Winter Storm Watch posted for Tuesday, we're going to punt on meeting
and concentrate on lining up a good speaker for April 10th.

http://boston.pm.org/Calendar/

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Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday Feb 13th - Commercial Game Design with Modern Perl !

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

I intended to play the 1:06:00 long version of the same talk from
Amsterdam Perl Conference (which starts with the Formerly Known as
YAPC joke bombing).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmLwYLSmTSs

So if you want 100% more Ovid & Tau Station with <= 50% overlap ...
e.g. "Gender is complicated"

I thought what he said about Test::Class::Moose and experimental
Test::Class::Moose::History was very interesting, along with
bootstrapping up to declarative programming with subject=>verb=>object
triples was interesting.

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[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday Feb 13th - Commercial Game Design with Modern Perl !

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

Let's try this again ... last month we tried, but it being IAP,
we didn't actually have a room.
(Minor admin oversight. We did have a nice chat over pizza.)

February 13th, 2nd Tuesday -- Ovid builds a MMORPG in Perl
7/7:30pm, MIT E51-732, Amherst St, Cambridge.
Amsterdam Perl Conference 2017 video screening

Noted Perl personality Ovid (Curtis Poe) has built a Space-exploration
on-line role-playing-game called "Tau Station" in Perl. It's even a
business. In this talk, he describes the games industry and how Modern
Perl makes building his game fun.

Original Abstract -
"With Tau Station, we're building a sci-fi universe in a browser.
However, in object oriented design, what does the "single
responsibility principle" mean when your combat armor serves as armor,
a weapon, and medkit?
"And when many different behaviors have long chains of duplicated
requirements (for example, do you have enough money to buy a medkit,
or refuel your ship, or repair your blaster, or bribe a guard), how do
you handle that in an efficient an easy to read manner?
"And how do you avoid god objects when your character in the universe
drives almost everything?
"This talk explores some of the techniques we've developed for Tau
Station to easily model complex behaviors."

We'll have our usual community discussion after (or by hitting pause
as needed) in lieu of speaker Q

NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
(parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
circling), and paid lot/garages.
Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)
Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.

Boilerplate details -

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

Links
 http://boston.pm.orgMIT+Directions
 http://boston.pm.org/Mailing+Lists
 http://boston.pm.org/Calendar  < more links here


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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday Feb 13th - Commercial Game Design with Modern Perl !

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce]

Let's try this again ... last month we tried, but it being IAP,
we didn't actually have a room.
(Minor admin oversight. We did have a nice chat over pizza.)

February 13th, 2nd Tuesday -- Ovid builds a MMORPG in Perl
7/7:30pm, MIT E51-732, Amherst St, Cambridge.
Amsterdam Perl Conference 2017 video screening

Noted Perl personality Ovid (Curtis Poe) has built a Space-exploration
on-line role-playing-game called "Tau Station" in Perl. It's even a
business. In this talk, he describes the games industry and how Modern
Perl makes building his game fun.

Original Abstract -
"With Tau Station, we're building a sci-fi universe in a browser.
However, in object oriented design, what does the "single
responsibility principle" mean when your combat armor serves as armor,
a weapon, and medkit?
"And when many different behaviors have long chains of duplicated
requirements (for example, do you have enough money to buy a medkit,
or refuel your ship, or repair your blaster, or bribe a guard), how do
you handle that in an efficient an easy to read manner?
"And how do you avoid god objects when your character in the universe
drives almost everything?
"This talk explores some of the techniques we've developed for Tau
Station to easily model complex behaviors."

We'll have our usual community discussion after (or by hitting pause
as needed) in lieu of speaker Q

NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
(parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
circling), and paid lot/garages.
Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)
Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.

Boilerplate details -

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

Links
 http://boston.pm.orgMIT+Directions
 http://boston.pm.org/Mailing+Lists
 http://boston.pm.org/Calendar  < more links here


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Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday - Commercial Game Design with Modern Perl !

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Typo E51-376 Tonight!



On Jan 8, 2018 1:24 AM, "Bill Ricker"  wrote:

> HAPPY NEW YEAR ! And FIRST MEETING !
> 2nd Tuesday comes early this month. This week !
>
> January 9th, 2nd Tuesday -- Ovid builds a MMORPG in Perl
> 7/7:30pm, MIT E51-732, Amherst St, Cambridge.
> Amsterdam Perl Conference 2017 video screening
>
> Noted Perl personality Ovid (Curtis Poe) has built a Space-exploration
> on-line role-playing-game called "Tau Station" in Perl. It's even a
> business. In this talk, he describes the games industry and how Modern
> Perl makes building his game fun.
>
> Original Abstract -
> "With Tau Station, we're building a sci-fi universe in a browser.
> However, in object oriented design, what does the "single
> responsibility principle" mean when your combat armor serves as armor,
> a weapon, and medkit?
> "And when many different behaviors have long chains of duplicated
> requirements (for example, do you have enough money to buy a medkit,
> or refuel your ship, or repair your blaster, or bribe a guard), how do
> you handle that in an efficient an easy to read manner?
> "And how do you avoid god objects when your character in the universe
> drives almost everything?
> "This talk explores some of the techniques we've developed for Tau
> Station to easily model complex behaviors."
>
> We'll have our usual community discussion after (or by hitting pause
> as needed) in lieu of speaker Q
>
> NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
> (parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
> after-hours.
> (This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
> being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
> Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
> lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
> circling), and paid lot/garages.
> Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
> (Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
> unlike most in-town garages.)
> Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
> Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
> access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.
>
>
> Boilerplate details -
>
> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
> building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
> nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
> Talk begins at 7:30.
> Refreshments in the hallway prior.
> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
> Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.
>
> Links
> http://boston.pm.orgMIT+Directions
> http://boston.pm.org/Mailing+Lists
> http://boston.pm.org/Calendar  < more links here
>
> --
> Bill Ricker
> bill.n1...@gmail.com
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
>

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Re: [Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday - Commercial Game Design with Modern Perl !

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce]

Typo E51-376 Tonight!



On Jan 8, 2018 1:24 AM, "Bill Ricker"  wrote:

> HAPPY NEW YEAR ! And FIRST MEETING !
> 2nd Tuesday comes early this month. This week !
>
> January 9th, 2nd Tuesday -- Ovid builds a MMORPG in Perl
> 7/7:30pm, MIT E51-732, Amherst St, Cambridge.
> Amsterdam Perl Conference 2017 video screening
>
> Noted Perl personality Ovid (Curtis Poe) has built a Space-exploration
> on-line role-playing-game called "Tau Station" in Perl. It's even a
> business. In this talk, he describes the games industry and how Modern
> Perl makes building his game fun.
>
> Original Abstract -
> "With Tau Station, we're building a sci-fi universe in a browser.
> However, in object oriented design, what does the "single
> responsibility principle" mean when your combat armor serves as armor,
> a weapon, and medkit?
> "And when many different behaviors have long chains of duplicated
> requirements (for example, do you have enough money to buy a medkit,
> or refuel your ship, or repair your blaster, or bribe a guard), how do
> you handle that in an efficient an easy to read manner?
> "And how do you avoid god objects when your character in the universe
> drives almost everything?
> "This talk explores some of the techniques we've developed for Tau
> Station to easily model complex behaviors."
>
> We'll have our usual community discussion after (or by hitting pause
> as needed) in lieu of speaker Q
>
> NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
> (parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
> after-hours.
> (This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
> being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
> Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
> lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
> circling), and paid lot/garages.
> Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
> (Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
> unlike most in-town garages.)
> Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
> Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
> access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.
>
>
> Boilerplate details -
>
> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
> building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
> nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
> Talk begins at 7:30.
> Refreshments in the hallway prior.
> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
> Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.
>
> Links
> http://boston.pm.orgMIT+Directions
> http://boston.pm.org/Mailing+Lists
> http://boston.pm.org/Calendar  < more links here
>
> --
> Bill Ricker
> bill.n1...@gmail.com
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
>

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[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday - Commercial Game Design with Modern Perl !

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

HAPPY NEW YEAR ! And FIRST MEETING !
2nd Tuesday comes early this month. This week !

January 9th, 2nd Tuesday -- Ovid builds a MMORPG in Perl
7/7:30pm, MIT E51-732, Amherst St, Cambridge.
Amsterdam Perl Conference 2017 video screening

Noted Perl personality Ovid (Curtis Poe) has built a Space-exploration
on-line role-playing-game called "Tau Station" in Perl. It's even a
business. In this talk, he describes the games industry and how Modern
Perl makes building his game fun.

Original Abstract -
"With Tau Station, we're building a sci-fi universe in a browser.
However, in object oriented design, what does the "single
responsibility principle" mean when your combat armor serves as armor,
a weapon, and medkit?
"And when many different behaviors have long chains of duplicated
requirements (for example, do you have enough money to buy a medkit,
or refuel your ship, or repair your blaster, or bribe a guard), how do
you handle that in an efficient an easy to read manner?
"And how do you avoid god objects when your character in the universe
drives almost everything?
"This talk explores some of the techniques we've developed for Tau
Station to easily model complex behaviors."

We'll have our usual community discussion after (or by hitting pause
as needed) in lieu of speaker Q

NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
(parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
circling), and paid lot/garages.
Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)
Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.


Boilerplate details -

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

Links
http://boston.pm.orgMIT+Directions
http://boston.pm.org/Mailing+Lists
http://boston.pm.org/Calendar  < more links here

-- 
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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday - Commercial Game Design with Modern Perl !

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce]

HAPPY NEW YEAR ! And FIRST MEETING !
2nd Tuesday comes early this month. This week !

January 9th, 2nd Tuesday -- Ovid builds a MMORPG in Perl
7/7:30pm, MIT E51-732, Amherst St, Cambridge.
Amsterdam Perl Conference 2017 video screening

Noted Perl personality Ovid (Curtis Poe) has built a Space-exploration
on-line role-playing-game called "Tau Station" in Perl. It's even a
business. In this talk, he describes the games industry and how Modern
Perl makes building his game fun.

Original Abstract -
"With Tau Station, we're building a sci-fi universe in a browser.
However, in object oriented design, what does the "single
responsibility principle" mean when your combat armor serves as armor,
a weapon, and medkit?
"And when many different behaviors have long chains of duplicated
requirements (for example, do you have enough money to buy a medkit,
or refuel your ship, or repair your blaster, or bribe a guard), how do
you handle that in an efficient an easy to read manner?
"And how do you avoid god objects when your character in the universe
drives almost everything?
"This talk explores some of the techniques we've developed for Tau
Station to easily model complex behaviors."

We'll have our usual community discussion after (or by hitting pause
as needed) in lieu of speaker Q

NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
(parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
circling), and paid lot/garages.
Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)
Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.


Boilerplate details -

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

Links
http://boston.pm.orgMIT+Directions
http://boston.pm.org/Mailing+Lists
http://boston.pm.org/Calendar  < more links here

-- 
Bill Ricker
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux

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[Boston.pm] Cancel December Tech Meeting

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

CANCEL

Since i didn't have anything exciting to announce as a meeting topic
last Friday and still don't, and it's getting into the Holidays, I'm
saying cancel the December meeting, which would have been Tuesday,
December 12th.

Next Tech meeting would be 2nd Tuesday of January, the 9th.

If you have something cool or interesting to talk about in Perl 5 or
Perl 6 or CPAN etc, drop me an email?

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[Boston.pm-announce] Cancel December Tech Meeting

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce]

CANCEL

Since i didn't have anything exciting to announce as a meeting topic
last Friday and still don't, and it's getting into the Holidays, I'm
saying cancel the December meeting, which would have been Tuesday,
December 12th.

Next Tech meeting would be 2nd Tuesday of January, the 9th.

If you have something cool or interesting to talk about in Perl 5 or
Perl 6 or CPAN etc, drop me an email?

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[Boston.pm] TOMORROW Tech Meeting "Deep Learning in Perl" Nov. 14th - Adam Russell (live!)

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

 Next Meeting - Tuesday, November 14th - 7 ish gather, 7:30 talk

Adam Russell
 "Deep Learning in Perl with AI::MXNet: Navigating implementation issues"

LIVE Speaker !
ROOM Change (from spring): E51-372 (MIT 2 Amherst St, Cambridge)

ABSTRACT
This talk will cover lessons learned from a recent experience in
getting a deep learning projected started, with little prior
experience in AI. All code will use the Perl MXNet API and guide the
audience through developing a simple model, which is then built on to
perform more complex tasks.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has for a long time captured the popular
imagination. Results from academia and industry have finally started
to deliver on some of the long hoped for results: self driving cars,
automated medical diagnoses, and written and verbal language
processing. These areas are showing advances that were once simply
products of fiction writers. The current wave of AI enthusiasm may be
attributed to what is called Deep Learning which is a convenient label
for relatively new techniques using neural networks. The possibility
for increased automation across virtually every industry has resulted
in the spinning up of many new startup companies, as well as new
projects within existing enterprises, resulting in the need to develop
the skills necessary to pursue this new area.

While not the language of production, Perl is used to develop
algorithms and demonstrate concepts before they receive fuller
treatment. Deep Learning practitioners often begin their deep learning
work, correctly, with a review of the literature and research into the
fundamentals. Projects then often start confidently with high hopes,
built on that conceptual understanding, only to quickly get bogged
down in unforeseen, but critically important, issues of
implementation.

 SPEAKER
Adam Russell is a software engineer with OptumLabs' Center for Applied
Data Science (CADS). CADS is tasked with developing prototype
applications which implement recent advances in algorithms and
technology to address issues of importance to Optum business
interests. Most recent projects have been focused on Deep Learning.
Adam has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of
Massachusetts Lowell, his academic interests involve Computational
Geometry and Data Visualization and these explorations, much like the
work described in this talk, are all Perl driven. He also teaches, on
an adjunct basis, at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.

NOTES
Parking Alert.
Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking ,
visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
circling), and paid lot/garages.

(Some circle to get a meter that will be free after 8pm and toss in a couple
quarters for good luck until then, hoping more folk are leaving than arriving
until after they become free.)

Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)
Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.

parking links available via http://boston.pm.org/Calendar

DETAILS
Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.

RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.
(NOTE: Fall 2017: we're moving back to the squarer room 372 (first
door after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had
the last several years)

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[Boston.pm-announce] Correction Re: Tech Meeting "Deep Learning in Perl" Nov. 14th - Adam Russell (live!)

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce]

I mistakenly used later timing. Talk normally begins 7:30, gather/mingle 7ish.


On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 5:50 PM, Bill Ricker  wrote:
> We changed speakers and topics at the last minute last month because real 
> life.
>
> Our very interesting previously-planned speaker will instead speak
> this month -- next week.
> Remember, if you get Veterans' Day Monday off work, Tuesday will feel
> like Monday.
>

 Next Meeting - Tuesday, November 14th - 7 ish gather, 7:30 talk


> Adam Russell
> "Deep Learning in Perl with AI::MXNet: Navigating implementation issues"
>
> LIVE Speaker !
> ROOM Change (from spring): E51-372 (MIT 2 Amherst St, Cambridge)
>
>
> ABSTRACT
> This talk will cover lessons learned from a recent experience in
> getting a deep learning projected started, with little prior
> experience in AI. All code will use the Perl MXNet API and guide the
> audience through developing a simple model, which is then built on to
> perform more complex tasks.
>
> Artificial Intelligence (AI) has for a long time captured the popular
> imagination. Results from academia and industry have finally started
> to deliver on some of the long hoped for results: self driving cars,
> automated medical diagnoses, and written and verbal language
> processing. These areas are showing advances that were once simply
> products of fiction writers. The current wave of AI enthusiasm may be
> attributed to what is called Deep Learning which is a convenient label
> for relatively new techniques using neural networks. The possibility
> for increased automation across virtually every industry has resulted
> in the spinning up of many new startup companies, as well as new
> projects within existing enterprises, resulting in the need to develop
> the skills necessary to pursue this new area.
>
> While not the language of production, Perl is used to develop
> algorithms and demonstrate concepts before they receive fuller
> treatment. Deep Learning practitioners often begin their deep learning
> work, correctly, with a review of the literature and research into the
> fundamentals. Projects then often start confidently with high hopes,
> built on that conceptual understanding, only to quickly get bogged
> down in unforeseen, but critically important, issues of
> implementation.
>
>  SPEAKER
> Adam Russell is a software engineer with OptumLabs' Center for Applied
> Data Science (CADS). CADS is tasked with developing prototype
> applications which implement recent advances in algorithms and
> technology to address issues of importance to Optum business
> interests. Most recent projects have been focused on Deep Learning.
> Adam has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of
> Massachusetts Lowell, his academic interests involve Computational
> Geometry and Data Visualization and these explorations, much like the
> work described in this talk, are all Perl driven. He also teaches, on
> an adjunct basis, at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.
>
> NOTES
>> Parking Alert.
>> Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking ,
>> visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
>> (This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
>> being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
>> Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
>> lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
>> circling), and paid lot/garages.
>
> (Some circle to get a meter that will be free after 8pm and toss in a couple
> quarters for good luck until then, hoping more folk are leaving than arriving
> until after they become free.)
>
>> Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
>> (Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
>> unlike most in-town garages.)
>> Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
>> Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
>> access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.
>
> parking links available via http://boston.pm.org/Calendar
>
> DETAILS
>> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
>> building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
>> nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
>> Talk begins at 7:30.
>> Refreshments in the hallway prior.
>
>> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
>> Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.
>> (NOTE: Fall 2017: we're moving back to the squarer room 372 (first
>> door after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had
>> the last several years)



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[Boston.pm] Correction Re: Tech Meeting "Deep Learning in Perl" Nov. 14th - Adam Russell (live!)

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

I mistakenly used later timing. Talk normally begins 7:30, gather/mingle 7ish.


On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 5:50 PM, Bill Ricker  wrote:
> We changed speakers and topics at the last minute last month because real 
> life.
>
> Our very interesting previously-planned speaker will instead speak
> this month -- next week.
> Remember, if you get Veterans' Day Monday off work, Tuesday will feel
> like Monday.
>

 Next Meeting - Tuesday, November 14th - 7 ish gather, 7:30 talk


> Adam Russell
> "Deep Learning in Perl with AI::MXNet: Navigating implementation issues"
>
> LIVE Speaker !
> ROOM Change (from spring): E51-372 (MIT 2 Amherst St, Cambridge)
>
>
> ABSTRACT
> This talk will cover lessons learned from a recent experience in
> getting a deep learning projected started, with little prior
> experience in AI. All code will use the Perl MXNet API and guide the
> audience through developing a simple model, which is then built on to
> perform more complex tasks.
>
> Artificial Intelligence (AI) has for a long time captured the popular
> imagination. Results from academia and industry have finally started
> to deliver on some of the long hoped for results: self driving cars,
> automated medical diagnoses, and written and verbal language
> processing. These areas are showing advances that were once simply
> products of fiction writers. The current wave of AI enthusiasm may be
> attributed to what is called Deep Learning which is a convenient label
> for relatively new techniques using neural networks. The possibility
> for increased automation across virtually every industry has resulted
> in the spinning up of many new startup companies, as well as new
> projects within existing enterprises, resulting in the need to develop
> the skills necessary to pursue this new area.
>
> While not the language of production, Perl is used to develop
> algorithms and demonstrate concepts before they receive fuller
> treatment. Deep Learning practitioners often begin their deep learning
> work, correctly, with a review of the literature and research into the
> fundamentals. Projects then often start confidently with high hopes,
> built on that conceptual understanding, only to quickly get bogged
> down in unforeseen, but critically important, issues of
> implementation.
>
>  SPEAKER
> Adam Russell is a software engineer with OptumLabs' Center for Applied
> Data Science (CADS). CADS is tasked with developing prototype
> applications which implement recent advances in algorithms and
> technology to address issues of importance to Optum business
> interests. Most recent projects have been focused on Deep Learning.
> Adam has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of
> Massachusetts Lowell, his academic interests involve Computational
> Geometry and Data Visualization and these explorations, much like the
> work described in this talk, are all Perl driven. He also teaches, on
> an adjunct basis, at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.
>
> NOTES
>> Parking Alert.
>> Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking ,
>> visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
>> (This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
>> being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
>> Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
>> lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
>> circling), and paid lot/garages.
>
> (Some circle to get a meter that will be free after 8pm and toss in a couple
> quarters for good luck until then, hoping more folk are leaving than arriving
> until after they become free.)
>
>> Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
>> (Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
>> unlike most in-town garages.)
>> Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
>> Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
>> access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.
>
> parking links available via http://boston.pm.org/Calendar
>
> DETAILS
>> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
>> building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
>> nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
>> Talk begins at 7:30.
>> Refreshments in the hallway prior.
>
>> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
>> Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.
>> (NOTE: Fall 2017: we're moving back to the squarer room 372 (first
>> door after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had
>> the last several years)



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[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting "Deep Learning in Perl" Nov. 14th - Adam Russell (live!)

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

We changed speakers and topics at the last minute last month because real life.

Our very interesting previously-planned speaker will instead speak
this month -- next week.
Remember, if you get Veterans' Day Monday off work, Tuesday will feel
like Monday.

Next Meeting - Tuesday, November 14th - 7:30ish gather, 8pm talk
Adam Russell
"Deep Learning in Perl with AI::MXNet: Navigating implementation issues"

LIVE Speaker !
ROOM Change (from spring): E51-372 (MIT 2 Amherst St, Cambridge)


ABSTRACT
This talk will cover lessons learned from a recent experience in
getting a deep learning projected started, with little prior
experience in AI. All code will use the Perl MXNet API and guide the
audience through developing a simple model, which is then built on to
perform more complex tasks.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has for a long time captured the popular
imagination. Results from academia and industry have finally started
to deliver on some of the long hoped for results: self driving cars,
automated medical diagnoses, and written and verbal language
processing. These areas are showing advances that were once simply
products of fiction writers. The current wave of AI enthusiasm may be
attributed to what is called Deep Learning which is a convenient label
for relatively new techniques using neural networks. The possibility
for increased automation across virtually every industry has resulted
in the spinning up of many new startup companies, as well as new
projects within existing enterprises, resulting in the need to develop
the skills necessary to pursue this new area.

While not the language of production, Perl is used to develop
algorithms and demonstrate concepts before they receive fuller
treatment. Deep Learning practitioners often begin their deep learning
work, correctly, with a review of the literature and research into the
fundamentals. Projects then often start confidently with high hopes,
built on that conceptual understanding, only to quickly get bogged
down in unforeseen, but critically important, issues of
implementation.

 SPEAKER
Adam Russell is a software engineer with OptumLabs' Center for Applied
Data Science (CADS). CADS is tasked with developing prototype
applications which implement recent advances in algorithms and
technology to address issues of importance to Optum business
interests. Most recent projects have been focused on Deep Learning.
Adam has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of
Massachusetts Lowell, his academic interests involve Computational
Geometry and Data Visualization and these explorations, much like the
work described in this talk, are all Perl driven. He also teaches, on
an adjunct basis, at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.

NOTES
> Parking Alert.
> Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking ,
> visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
> (This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
> being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
> Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
> lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
> circling), and paid lot/garages.

(Some circle to get a meter that will be free after 8pm and toss in a couple
quarters for good luck until then, hoping more folk are leaving than arriving
until after they become free.)

> Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
> (Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
> unlike most in-town garages.)
> Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
> Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
> access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.

parking links available via http://boston.pm.org/Calendar

DETAILS
> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
> building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
> nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
> Talk begins at 7:30.
> Refreshments in the hallway prior.

> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
> Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.
> (NOTE: Fall 2017: we're moving back to the squarer room 372 (first
> door after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had
> the last several years)

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Re: [Boston.pm] Image problem?

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Interesting observation on the s/o survey

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2017/10/31/the-most-disliked-programming-language/

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Re: [Boston.pm] Image problem?

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On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Greg London  wrote:

>>> a real OO interface,
>> Mouse/Moo/Mouse isn't good enough?

> It looks amazing, but someone needs to go back and convert
> all of cpan so blessed hashes are upgraded to moose.

Everything has to do it the same way?
That's not TIMTOWTDI.


> Rakudo has what looks like really nice subroutine parameter design.
> The problem is dealing with all the code that refers to $_[3] deep
> in the middle of a subroutine.

I don't see much of that.  That would be a code-smell for sure.

> Thats one of the things that makes simple support of someone elses
> perl code so hard. They werent forced to name their parameter list
> up front.

I agree that's horrible. That's not idiomatic Perl.
That's Perl (Perl 4)  with a strong Shell accent.
Such code does need modernizing.

>>> Or if rakudo could run fast, id jump to that.
>> All in good time.
> Its been a lot of christmases in the making.

Yes.
Looks like the Yellow ± footnote that had been forestalling my trying
some APLish matrix whacking is distinctly less missing.
  https://perl6.org/compilers/features#footnote_3
(Apparently there is still a possible PDL on top of quasi-native
"compact" multi-dimensional arrays.)

> I havent used it, but apparently python has extensions
> That make it static type checked, speeding up run times
> And making it more popular for embedded stuff.

IDK.
Python sure has one-true-way-thinking which will make it popular with
folks who like that.

People say
   "Perl doesn't have X"
... when what is usually true is that
  Perl doesn't have a single preferred X
   ... that is required
  ... or at least required unless you opt out aka default:on
We generally have 3+ choices
 ... and the default is none of them
 ... (or the oldest and worst, and the best may not be in CORE yet).

Our worst choice may not be better than Python's Hobson's Choice,
but our best choice generally will be.

If choice is good, this is not bad.
If the choice made ages ago in your Legacy code wasn't bad, that's good.

If however you have to support code that was written
 - by someone with bad taste, and/or
 - before the better options were available, and/or
 - before better options were in core distribution because CORP IT
won't install CPAN in PROD
yes, their historical choice can be beyond annoying.
Then { /* Time to refactor! */ }
[That's the sort of problem that can be outsourced to the
professionals at The Perl Shop :-) ]

*(Doesn't matter if decade(s) old Legacy was written by you a decade ago
 ...  or dropped over the cube wall yesterday ...
 your taste, what's available on CPAN, what's available in CORE can all improve.
 What's allowed in PROD might get tighter, but with PERLBREW and/or
Local::Lib, we can bundle
  a private Perl with the App and not rely on IT's no-CPAN-allowed
/usr/local/lib/perl/lib ,
  which could break an app if IT does OS upgrade so was always a bad
idea anyway! )

IMO, Python's first big win vs Perl was picking a DLL / SO interface
that was lighter, later binding.
   Perl standardized on compiler-binding with XS, a year or maybe just
a few months too early.
   Which has made integrating with legacy C libs harder than it needs
to be, making some deployments problematic.
   Even prevented me buying commercial Perl support for a Fortune 500 co. !
  (We now have a light/late binding option also -- TIMTOWTDI --
   but it's not the norm, so DBI DBD::* and XML::*
   still AFAIK don't normally use it.)
Which makes numb.py and scipy the substitute for Fortran in BigData
and Science, instead of PDL, etc etc.
(PDL not being Core probably didn't help.)
Sad.

> I like perl. Its an old friend of mine.
> It does some mind blowing amazing things.
> But its like that old friend who has some really annoying quirks.

Yep. Likewise.

> Perl might be the sheldon cooper of programming languages.

Heh.



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Re: [Boston.pm] Image problem?

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On Wed, November 1, 2017 3:42 am, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote:
> We may have a bit of an image problem.
> Perl was the #1 most disliked

Who'd have guessed the language / culture that surpassed the Obfuscated C
contest with invention of golf scoring might have an image problem?

Web 1.0 was built on dirty old Perl 4 and Perl 5.5.
All that flexibility might be good for something, but organizations not in
innovation mode tend to prefer standards to flexibility.

The interviewer stated that perl wasnt allowed because it wasnt "strongly
> typed", that it wasnt even "weakly typed". And perl feels like it went out
> of its wayto not have compile time checks.
>

As an improvement on Shell and Awk , this is not unreasonable. Various
modules allow for doing what checking is desired. A language founded on
TIMTOWTDI will be wrong for a firm with  a B culture.

Honestly, perl6 may be better off if it brands itself as "rakudo" instead
> of a sequel to perl.


Yes. There is talk they might...

The biggest selling point of perl 6 in my opinion is
> that it fixes all the things fundementally wrong with perl that made perl
> a bad language.
>

Flexibility can be a good thing in some contexts.
Duck-typing did not make Lisp or SmallTalk "bad languages" except to those
brainwashed that strong typing is essential for for computer science
blessings. It is a very useful concept, but screws and nails should not be
driven with the same tool.

But yes, P6 looks more like a programming language than a scripting
language straight out of the box, yet retains the whipitupitude for
scripting.


introspection
> so I can hack variables if I need to,


Introspection is generally less ugly / more useful in a ducktyping /
runtime-typing world. Runtime introspection in a compile time typed world
is usually a worse hack than pre-Moose Perl OO.

a real OO interface,


Mouse/Moo/Mouse isn't good enough?

Or if rakudo could run fast, id jump to that.
>

All in good time.
I need to check if they've completed the unfinished bits I was waiting for
...

>

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Re: [Boston.pm] [Discuss] perl and xml

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On BOSTON-PM-list,  Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Morse, Richard
E.,MGH 
(who was away last week) replied:

> Hi! I was just working with some XML, and I’d like to suggest also looking at 
> XML::XPath,
> which does allow you to change the text content (and probably all the other 
> attributes) of nodes.
> Also, since you can find nodes using XPath, it may be easier to select nodes, 
> rather than walking
> through a tree of Perl structures…

Yes.
XML::XPath is basically what XML::Twig is a light-weight "do the easy
80% of"  version of.
(If one needs more than Twig, or if Twig docs don't make sense, XPath
is obvious next choice.)


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[Boston.pm] Filtering of [job] listings Re: [Job] Ruby / Perl job, Perm, ...

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Re

> It is not a 100% Perl job, but their middleware and DevOps are Perl
> and likely to remain so, so our requirement [1] of "Perl must be a
> primary aspect of the job" is barely met, if I'm generous.  And for
> such a nice-sounding company I'm inclined to be generous, so I'm
> allowing posting of this one.

This does not set a precedent of looser filtering.

I'd be interested in feedback on whether loosening the filter to
"Perl a strong/required secondary"
would be ok.
I'm guessing we'd get more such posts; is that good or bad?

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[Boston.pm] [Job] Ruby / Perl job, Perm, Cambridge: Senior Software Developer at Smartleaf

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The following is a Permanent position in Cambridge.

It is not a 100% Perl job, but their middleware and DevOps are Perl
and likely to remain so, so our requirement [1] of "Perl must be a
primary aspect of the job" is barely met, if I'm generous.  And for
such a nice-sounding company I'm inclined to be generous, so I'm
allowing posting of this one.


// Bill, Boston.pm Facilitator/Moderator

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[1] http://boston.pm.org/Job+Posting+Policy

===


* Senior Software Developer at Smartleaf

* About Us

We’re leaders in financial technology, located in Kendall Square. Our
team includes an extraordinary group of financial engineers and software
developers working together to make it possible for all investors to
get the level of portfolio oversight and customization that was once the
exclusive preserve of the ultra-wealthy. We work with wealth management
firms of all types, from multi-billion dollar national banks to startup
“robo-advisors." Your work on this system will directly impact our
mission to democratize wealth management, lower costs and improve service
since 1999.

* Your Role

We are looking for a steady producer who is friendly, generous
with their attention and knowledge and eager to make a
difference to both customers and team members.

You will work in a small team of 5 developers, responsible for
our customer-facing application and support. You will have the
opportunity to participate in all aspects of design,
implementation, peer code review, testing and bug fixing. Your
first mission will be to help us scale out our trading API
services, focusing on handling large volumes of requests in a
multi-tenant application.

This position is mostly backend work, with some front-end
support.  Although financial analysis is handled by a separate
development team, our team handles all other aspects of the
application from the GUI and storage of customer data to
automating complex workflows.

You will get a chance to work closely with our front-end QA
staff and collaborate with other departments, including our
Product, Operations and Financial Engineering teams.
Additionally, all team members rotate taking care of tasks like
release management and support.

Our technology stack includes Ruby on Rails (front end), Perl (data
control and application deployment), C++ (financial engine), Oracle and
Debian Linux. We use git for source control and Jira and Confluence to
keep track of development tasks. Most employees use Macs.

* Preferred Qualifications

We would like to see candidates with:

A solid grasp of design and architecture. (Experience with API design
is a plus!)
Experience with a diverse set of technologies, backend integrations
and scaling large systems, as well as experience supporting a mature
product.
Familiarity with SQL.
Experience with Rails or similar web development frameworks.
An enthusiasm for tracking down and solving problems in a complex
system with interdependent data structures.
Thorough testing habits.
The ability to work well independently and with both senior and junior staff.
Around 5+ years relevant post-bachelors’ experience.

Most importantly, we are looking for candidates who are clever,
competent and kind.

Please note a financial services background is NOT required.

* Culture and Benefits

Currently Smartleaf is located in a top-floor office a short
walk away from the Kendall T stop in Cambridge. With a little
over 30 employees, we are a relaxed and friendly office focused
on client and employee satisfaction. We'd like to see you in
the office, but everyone is required to be able to telecommute,
on occasion.

We offer:

Competitive compensation
Comprehensive health and dental coverage with fully paid premiums
Three weeks paid time off, plus holidays
Flexible office hours
Fully-stocked kitchen, including healthy breakfast and lunch options

* How to Apply

Please send a cover letter and a resume to fut...@smartleaf.com
in plain text or PDF. In your cover letter, please tell us about
an interesting technical problem that you have solved. Questions
are welcome–we look forward to hearing from you!

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Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting TONIGHT // Topic Change

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> Next Meeting - Tuesday, October 10th -

Last-minute Speaker / Topic change / Github Continuous Integration for
Perl CPAN modules / see below.

> LIVE Speaker !
> ROOM Change (from spring): E51-372

We're sorry to report that due to circumstances beyond the speaker's
control, he won't be able to make it tonight for his talk on "Deep
Learning in Perl." We are tentatively rescheduling that talk for our
November meeting (update to follow). Instead tonight we will be having
a mini-hackathon on the Config::Std CPAN module that Boston.pm
maintains. We'll be offering a live demonstration of setting up
continuous integration (CI) using Travis CI and Appveyor, two hosted
CI tools made freely available for open source projects on Github.
Join us as we stumble through the process and learn from our mistakes.

Perl has had Test::Harness for decades, with CPANTS providing
distributed Continuous Integration testing of Released CPAN module
distributions for a decade or more. Thank you CPANTS volunteers for
creating a distributed cloud for us :-).  Now GitHub is offering
similar capabilities to all the other FLOSS communities via free
integration with freemium cloud Continuous Integration tools Travis-CI
(for Linux) and Appveyor (for Windows). Since we have CPANTS for
release, we can use Travis-ci to test our DEV branch after
checkin. They'll even test Pull Requests before merge!  Any Github
FLOSS project can use these, but Perl CPAN projects can make use
easily since we already have a regression testing culture, we won't
need to write the tests, just enable them.

> NOTES
> Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking ,
> visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
> (This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
> being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
> Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
> lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
> circling), and paid lot/garages.
> Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
> (Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
> unlike most in-town garages.)
> Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
> Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
> access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.
>
>
> DETAILS
> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
> building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
> nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
> Talk begins at 7:30.
> Refreshments in the hallway prior.
> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
> Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.
>
>
> (NOTE: Fall 2017: we're moving back to the squarer room 372 (first
> door after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had
> the last several years)
>
>
>
> Future - Fall/Winter reservations
>
> *If you have a demo or talk idea, please, when would you like to
> present? Doesn't need to fill the full time.*
>
> Confirmed room assignments courtesy of MIT
> Room E51-372
> Tues, Nov 14th  ??Adam Russell "Deep Learning in Perl"??
> Tues, Dec 12th , 2017



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Re: [Boston.pm] [Discuss] perl and xml

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On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 1:49 PM, R. Luoma  wrote
on BLU Discuss:

> This may be off-topic, but I am trying to manipulate
> what I think is an "xml" file with perl (on a linux system).
> I am not familiar with the ins and outs of xml

It would not be off-topic on boson...@mail.perl.org .
We're your local Perl UG.
(Second Tuesdays, around the corner from where BLU meets. Tomorrow
night, come visit!)

Weren't you formerly on our Listserve too?

(So I'm CC:ing discussion there, but folks there should REPLY ALL, so
that he can see the replies.)


> Supposedly, perl has xml modules for this purpose,

Yes.

> but I am have difficulty figuring them out.

In Perl's spirit of TIMTOWTDI, There is More than One Way to Do It.

The default answer is to parse an entire document and navigate the DOM
from the root.  That could be XML::LibXML or XML::Simple or
XML::LibXSLT or ...
That way lies madness, when your edits are strictly local.

> The above example is simple, but, ultimately,
> I would be working on an xml file with many items
> and each item would have many different tags.

So you want to edit XML locally, replacing a tag's text contents with
a specific portion of the text contents of a specifically-named
sibling tag.

For local edits such as you need, I'd use XML::Twig [2][3].
   I did a worked example [1] not so very different from yours for the
Perl Advent calendar in a prior decade (when Boston.PM's Jerrad Pierce
was editor and Boston.PM were majority contributors).


[1] http://perladvent.pm.org/2009/06
[2] https://metacpan.org/module/XML::Twig
[3] http://xmltwig.org/xmltwig/


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[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting "Deep Learning in Perl" October 10th - Adam Russell (live!)

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Next Meeting - Tuesday, October 10th - Adam Russell "Deep Learning in Perl"

LIVE Speaker !
ROOM Change (from spring): E51-372

"Deep Learning with AI::MXNet: Navigating implementation issues"

ABSTRACT
This talk will cover lessons learned from a recent experience in
getting a deep learning projected started, with little prior
experience in AI. All code will use the Perl MXNet API and guide the
audience through developing a simple model, which is then built on to
perform more complex tasks.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has for a long time captured the popular
imagination. Results from academia and industry have finally started
to deliver on some of the long hoped for results: self driving cars,
automated medical diagnoses, and written and verbal language
processing. These areas are showing advances that were once simply
products of fiction writers. The current wave of AI enthusiasm may be
attributed to what is called Deep Learning which is a convenient label
for relatively new techniques using neural networks. The possibility
for increased automation across virtually every industry has resulted
in the spinning up of many new startup companies, as well as new
projects within existing enterprises, resulting in the need to develop
the skills necessary to pursue this new area.

While not the language of production, Perl is used to develop
algorithms and demonstrate concepts before they receive fuller
treatment. Deep Learning practitioners often begin their deep learning
work, correctly, with a review of the literature and research into the
fundamentals. Projects then often start confidently with high hopes,
built on that conceptual understanding, only to quickly get bogged
down in unforeseen, but critically important, issues of
implementation.


SPEAKER
Adam Russell is a software engineer with OptumLabs' Center for Applied
Data Science (CADS). CADS is tasked with developing prototype
applications which implement recent advances in algorithms and
technology to address issues of importance to Optum business
interests. Most recent projects have been focused on Deep Learning.
Adam has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of
Massachusetts Lowell, his academic interests involve Computational
Geometry and Data Visualization and these explorations, much like the
work described in this talk, are all Perl driven. He also teaches, on
an adjunct basis, at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.

NOTES
Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking ,
visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
circling), and paid lot/garages.
Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)
Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.


DETAILS
Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE: Fall 2017: we're moving back to the squarer room 372 (first
door after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had
the last several years)



Future - Fall/Winter reservations

*If you have a demo or talk idea, please, when would you like to
present? Doesn't need to fill the full time.*

Confirmed room assignments courtesy of MIT
Room E51-372
Tues, Nov 14th
Tues, Dec 12th , 2017

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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting "Deep Learning in Perl" October 10th - Adam Russell (live!)

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Next Meeting - Tuesday, October 10th - Adam Russell "Deep Learning in Perl"

LIVE Speaker !
ROOM Change (from spring): E51-372

"Deep Learning with AI::MXNet: Navigating implementation issues"

ABSTRACT
This talk will cover lessons learned from a recent experience in
getting a deep learning projected started, with little prior
experience in AI. All code will use the Perl MXNet API and guide the
audience through developing a simple model, which is then built on to
perform more complex tasks.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has for a long time captured the popular
imagination. Results from academia and industry have finally started
to deliver on some of the long hoped for results: self driving cars,
automated medical diagnoses, and written and verbal language
processing. These areas are showing advances that were once simply
products of fiction writers. The current wave of AI enthusiasm may be
attributed to what is called Deep Learning which is a convenient label
for relatively new techniques using neural networks. The possibility
for increased automation across virtually every industry has resulted
in the spinning up of many new startup companies, as well as new
projects within existing enterprises, resulting in the need to develop
the skills necessary to pursue this new area.

While not the language of production, Perl is used to develop
algorithms and demonstrate concepts before they receive fuller
treatment. Deep Learning practitioners often begin their deep learning
work, correctly, with a review of the literature and research into the
fundamentals. Projects then often start confidently with high hopes,
built on that conceptual understanding, only to quickly get bogged
down in unforeseen, but critically important, issues of
implementation.


SPEAKER
Adam Russell is a software engineer with OptumLabs' Center for Applied
Data Science (CADS). CADS is tasked with developing prototype
applications which implement recent advances in algorithms and
technology to address issues of importance to Optum business
interests. Most recent projects have been focused on Deep Learning.
Adam has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of
Massachusetts Lowell, his academic interests involve Computational
Geometry and Data Visualization and these explorations, much like the
work described in this talk, are all Perl driven. He also teaches, on
an adjunct basis, at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.

NOTES
Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking ,
visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours! and several blocks
lost to construction), free spaces on Memorial Drive (allow time for
circling), and paid lot/garages.
Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)
Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.


DETAILS
Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE: Fall 2017: we're moving back to the squarer room 372 (first
door after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had
the last several years)



Future - Fall/Winter reservations

*If you have a demo or talk idea, please, when would you like to
present? Doesn't need to fill the full time.*

Confirmed room assignments courtesy of MIT
Room E51-372
Tues, Nov 14th
Tues, Dec 12th , 2017

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Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Damian's 'Why I Love Perl' keynote (TPC'17)

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On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Greg London  wrote:
>
>> NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
>> (parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
>> after-hours.
>
> Well that sucks.

It was in retrospect amazing how long the convergence of convenient
MBTA / Free Parking / Easy off easy On / Good AV / Free lasted. All
the other sites I've used for seminars have failed one of thos
criteria. (NU ticked all boxes on Saturdays until they started the
Saturday Executive MBA and suddenly parking was permitted on Saturdays
too.)

With the current construction on campus, MIT has fewer spaces than
parking stickers, so the folks who've paid rightly expect to get
priority for what few they have left, even nights and weekends now.

(And this will be permanent. Given the DOT/EPA treaty, even after the
new buildings are finished, there will be fewer indoor spaces than the
outdoor spaces replaced.)

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[Boston.pm] UPDATE Re: Tech Meeting: Damian's "Three Little Words (I Love Perl)" keynote (TPC'17)

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

Tues, Sep 12th - tomorrow -
Damian Conway, "Three Little Words" (or "Why I Love Perl") (recorded
at The 2017 Perl Conference)


ROOM Change: E51-372

Damian Conway, known for his rapid-paced, wide-ranging, tour-de-force
presentations, was the keynote presenter at The Perl Conference, 2017
(formerly known as YAPC::NA). In his keynote he tells "a tale of
madness, obsession, and coding extremity," describing what it took to
bring 3 keywords from Perl 6 to Perl 5. A community effort that took
three years and 2.8 million lines of code. This is a more extreme
example of what some developers are going through to bring Perl 6
functionality to Perl 5.

We will watch his recorded keynote and discuss among ourselves.

Even if you are new to Perl and don't follow all the technical
details, Damian's highly entertaining presentations are a must see.
(Plus, after the talk when we discuss it, we'll happily answer any
questions.)

About the speaker
Damian Conway is an author or co-author of numerous Perl books, and a
widely sought-after speaker and trainer.




NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
(parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
after-hours.
FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE LINKS AT http://boston.pm.org/Calendar


Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE: Fall 2017: we're moving back to the squarer room 372 (first
door after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had
the last several years)

> Next Meeting -
> Tuesday, October 10th
> Adam Russell "Deep Learning in Perl"
>
> LIVE Speaker !




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[Boston.pm-announce] UPDATE Re: Tech Meeting: Damian's "Three Little Words (I Love Perl)" keynote (TPC'17)

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce]

Tues, Sep 12th - tomorrow -
Damian Conway, "Three Little Words" (or "Why I Love Perl") (recorded
at The 2017 Perl Conference)


ROOM Change: E51-372

Damian Conway, known for his rapid-paced, wide-ranging, tour-de-force
presentations, was the keynote presenter at The Perl Conference, 2017
(formerly known as YAPC::NA). In his keynote he tells "a tale of
madness, obsession, and coding extremity," describing what it took to
bring 3 keywords from Perl 6 to Perl 5. A community effort that took
three years and 2.8 million lines of code. This is a more extreme
example of what some developers are going through to bring Perl 6
functionality to Perl 5.

We will watch his recorded keynote and discuss among ourselves.

Even if you are new to Perl and don't follow all the technical
details, Damian's highly entertaining presentations are a must see.
(Plus, after the talk when we discuss it, we'll happily answer any
questions.)

About the speaker
Damian Conway is an author or co-author of numerous Perl books, and a
widely sought-after speaker and trainer.




NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
(parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
after-hours.
FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE LINKS AT http://boston.pm.org/Calendar


Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.


(NOTE: Fall 2017: we're moving back to the squarer room 372 (first
door after the partition), not the wider 376 (second door) that we had
the last several years)

> Next Meeting -
> Tuesday, October 10th
> Adam Russell "Deep Learning in Perl"
>
> LIVE Speaker !




-- 
Bill Ricker
bill.n1...@gmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux

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[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Damian's "Why I Love Perl" keynote (TPC'17)

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

Current meeting -
Tues, Sep 12th -
The Perl Conference 2017 Review : Damian's keynote ( from TPC / YAPC::NA)


ROOM TBD - watch Email or @BostonPM twitter or Wiki for room # when confirmed !

The Damian Conway gave one of his rapid-paced, wide-ranging
tour-de-force presentations as an invited Keynote talk at TPC 2017 aka
YAPC::NA. He discusses the frustrations of a Perl6 activist dropping
back to Perl5, and what he did to scratch those itches. Hence his
title, "Why I Love Perl". We will relive his keynote via the magic
lantern, and discuss among ourselves.

NOTE: Parking Alert. Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages
(parking , visitors, public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking
after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours!) and paid lot/garages.
Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)
Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Ames both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.
FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE LINKS AT http://boston.pm.org/Calendar

Boilerplate details

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.



NOTE STAY TUNED for updates, as Room # is NOT YET CONFIRMED. Likely
one of our usual on 3rd floor of E51.


Next Meeting -
Tuesday, October 10th
Adam Russell "Deep Learning in Perl"

LIVE Speaker !


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[Boston.pm] Reminder - no meeting tonight

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

Next tech meeting Sept 12th.

http://boston.pm.org/Calendar

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[Boston.pm] August social tuesday? and Spam troubles

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

I don't have a presentation scheduled and the room will probably be
poorly cooled in August.
So maybe let's meet somewhere else for dinner?  Who's in?

We're having a bit of a problem with messages from list winding up in
Gmail SPAM folders.
I'm going discuss with list admins ...

Mean time I have set Filters in MY gmail to "NEVER Mark as Spam" all
things from my favorite mailing lists, which also saves Yahoo
submissions from DKIM discard -- recommended action for other Gmail
users.


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[Boston.pm-announce] August social tuesday? and Spam troubles

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce]

I don't have a presentation scheduled and the room will probably be
poorly cooled in August.
So maybe let's meet somewhere else for dinner?  Who's in?

We're having a bit of a problem with messages from list winding up in
Gmail SPAM folders.
I'm going discuss with list admins ...

Mean time I have set Filters in MY gmail to "NEVER Mark as Spam" all
things from my favorite mailing lists, which also saves Yahoo
submissions from DKIM discard -- recommended action for other Gmail
users.


-- 
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[Boston.pm-announce] Tuesday (today by now?) Re: Tech Meeting Tuesday: Lightning Talk Dim Sum (TPC/YAPC review)

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce]

TUESDAY (TONIGHT or tomorrow if you read quickly)

Tech Meeting
Tues, Jul 11th
The Perl Conference 2017 Review : Lightning Talk Dim Sum ( from TPC / YAPC::NA)
MIT E51-376  starting 7.30 (but I'll be there 7-ish)

Attendees will select Lightning Talks from The Perl Conference 2017
playlist. We can't play all 29 of them unless we 'gong' more than half
quickly after starting, but at 6 minutes each, we can get through a
dozen (unless we choose to discuss and experiment between).

Samples from among the 29 six-minute choices available -

* "Emulating Any API"
* "Perl 6 Str Considered Harmful"
* "Administering Slack Contests with Perl"
* "In Response to D. Conway's Test::Expr"
* "A Personalized Calendar in Perl"
* "Why Google's Dart should be your next programming language"
* "Hacking the Interviewing Process"


Bill will be our VJ, but the audience will lead.

* NOTE PARKING ALERT BELOW *

Boilerplate --

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

***  Parking Alert. ***

Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking , visitors,
public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours!) and paid
lot/garages.

Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.

Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)

Further details on Parking, see http://boston.pm.org/MIT+Directions/

( Anyone with ideas for sites with safe gratis parking _and_ good MBTA
access, let me know ! )

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[Boston.pm] Tuesday (today by now?) Re: Tech Meeting Tuesday: Lightning Talk Dim Sum (TPC/YAPC review)

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

TUESDAY (TONIGHT or tomorrow if you read quickly)

Tech Meeting
Tues, Jul 11th
The Perl Conference 2017 Review : Lightning Talk Dim Sum ( from TPC / YAPC::NA)
MIT E51-376  starting 7.30 (but I'll be there 7-ish)

Attendees will select Lightning Talks from The Perl Conference 2017
playlist. We can't play all 29 of them unless we 'gong' more than half
quickly after starting, but at 6 minutes each, we can get through a
dozen (unless we choose to discuss and experiment between).

Samples from among the 29 six-minute choices available -

* "Emulating Any API"
* "Perl 6 Str Considered Harmful"
* "Administering Slack Contests with Perl"
* "In Response to D. Conway's Test::Expr"
* "A Personalized Calendar in Perl"
* "Why Google's Dart should be your next programming language"
* "Hacking the Interviewing Process"


Bill will be our VJ, but the audience will lead.

* NOTE PARKING ALERT BELOW *

Boilerplate --

Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
Talk begins at 7:30.
Refreshments in the hallway prior.
RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

***  Parking Alert. ***

Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking , visitors,
public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
(This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours!) and paid
lot/garages.

Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.

Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
(Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
unlike most in-town garages.)

Further details on Parking, see http://boston.pm.org/MIT+Directions/

( Anyone with ideas for sites with safe gratis parking _and_ good MBTA
access, let me know ! )

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[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday: Lightning Talk Dim Sum (TPC/YAPC review)

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm]

Next Tech Meeting
Tues, Jul 11th
The Perl Conference 2017 Review : Lightning Talk Dim Sum ( from TPC / YAPC::NA)
MIT E51-376  starting 7.30 (but there 7-ish)

Attendees will select Lightning Talks from The Perl Conference 2017
playlist. We can't play all 29 of them unless we 'gong' more than half
quickly after starting, but at 6 minutes each, we can get through a
dozen (unless we choose to discuss and experiment between).

Samples from among the 29 six-minute choices available -

* "Emulating Any API"
* "Perl 6 Str Considered Harmful"
* "Administering Slack Contests with Perl"
* "In Response to D. Conway's Test::Expr"
* "A Personalized Calendar in Perl"
* "Why Google's Dart should be your next programming language"
* "Hacking the Interviewing Process"


Bill will be our VJ, but the audience will lead.

* NOTE PARKING ALERT BELOW *

Boilerplate --

> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
> building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
> nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
> Talk begins at 7:30.
> Refreshments in the hallway prior.
> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
> Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

***  Parking Alert. ***

> Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking , visitors,
> public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
> (This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
> being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
> Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours!) and paid
> lot/garages.
>
> Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
> Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
> access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.
>
> Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
> (Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
> unlike most in-town garages.)

Further details on Parking, see http://boston.pm.org/MIT+Directions/

> ( Anyone with ideas for sites with safe gratis parking _and_ good MBTA
> access, let me know ! )

-- 
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux

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[Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting Tuesday: Lightning Talk Dim Sum (TPC/YAPC review)

[Bill Ricker via Boston-pm-announce]

Next Tech Meeting
Tues, Jul 11th
The Perl Conference 2017 Review : Lightning Talk Dim Sum ( from TPC / YAPC::NA)
MIT E51-376  starting 7.30 (but there 7-ish)

Attendees will select Lightning Talks from The Perl Conference 2017
playlist. We can't play all 29 of them unless we 'gong' more than half
quickly after starting, but at 6 minutes each, we can get through a
dozen (unless we choose to discuss and experiment between).

Samples from among the 29 six-minute choices available -

* "Emulating Any API"
* "Perl 6 Str Considered Harmful"
* "Administering Slack Contests with Perl"
* "In Response to D. Conway's Test::Expr"
* "A Personalized Calendar in Perl"
* "Why Google's Dart should be your next programming language"
* "Hacking the Interviewing Process"


Bill will be our VJ, but the audience will lead.

* NOTE PARKING ALERT BELOW *

Boilerplate --

> Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT
> building E51, Sloan School Tang Center [not the other Tang building!]
> nearer to Kendall Sq than Mass Ave. (directions).
> Talk begins at 7:30.
> Refreshments in the hallway prior.
> RSVP for count encouraged but not required, to bill.n1...@gmail.com or
> Boston-PM list, by 4pm Tuesday.

***  Parking Alert. ***

> Recent changes in MIT Parking Dept web pages (parking , visitors,
> public ) no longer allow un-permitted parking after-hours.
> (This is a natural response to several other East Campus parking lots
> being eaten by new building sites for campus expansion.)
> Only legit parking is Cambridge meters (late hours!) and paid
> lot/garages.
>
> Also, construction detour is even longer than last time if driving,
> Wadsworth to/from Mem Drive & Amherst St to Amess both closed, only
> access by car is Wadsworth to/from Main St east-bound.
>
> Come by Train, Bus, Bicycle, or Foot if you can!
> (Parking at MBTA Garages are convenient to T and not overpriced,
> unlike most in-town garages.)

Further details on Parking, see http://boston.pm.org/MIT+Directions/

> ( Anyone with ideas for sites with safe gratis parking _and_ good MBTA
> access, let me know ! )

-- 
Bill Ricker
bill.n1...@gmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux

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