Thanks James and John! Cool stuff and well delivered. I really liked the combo of the bare-bones outline / emacs combined with good narrative. I definitely like visuals but the outline/narrative was refreshing.
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote: > We met at BigDoor today, and James Cooper and John deRosa gave a talk > on parallel programming. 21 people attended. The speakers compared > ``multiprocessing``, Redis, Celery, and MapReduce. > > We raised $131 toward the SeaPIG server bill. Thank you everybody. > That leaves just $81 outstanding. > > I asked for topics for future meetings October-ish, and people > suggested BioPython (gene-sequencing software), Sage (mathematical > software), MatPlotLib (for drawing plots), and a repeat of the Intro > to NumPy talk (for multidimensional arrays like matrices). We don't > seem to have experts in the group for the first two but we have a > couple leads on outside speakers. > > -- > Mike Orr <[email protected]> >
