Is the plan still to upload videos of the talks to youtube? The presentation slides (https://github.com/JuliaCon/presentations for anyone searching) are really interesting and I'm looking forward to seeing the talks.
On Tuesday, June 3, 2014 4:40:34 PM UTC-7, Gustavo Lacerda wrote: > > Awesome. Thanks, James. > > Gustavo > -- > Gustavo Lacerda > http://www.optimizelife.com > > > On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 6:44 PM, James Porter <porter...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > Hey Gustavo, > > > > I think what you're looking for will be the primary focus of the Hack > Day > > we're holding at the University of Chicago the Saturday after the > > conference. Register on Meetup if you want to attend!: > > http://www.meetup.com/JuliaChicago/events/181343542/ > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Gustavo Lacerda <gus...@optimizelife.com > <javascript:>> > > wrote: > >> > >> hi all, > >> > >> My main interest in JuliaCon is to discuss/plan the development of > >> statistics and machine learning libraries. I'm hoping for some > >> hacking sessions, pair programming, etc. > >> > >> Given that the conference is single-track, will there be space for > >> this? How many people are interested in this? > >> > >> Gustavo > >> > >> > >> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:51 AM, James Porter <porter...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> > >> wrote: > >> > Hey all— > >> > > >> > As far as Patrick's question goes— > >> > > >> > It is true that a lot of the talks at the conference are going to be > >> > about > >> > fairly advanced topics (Julia internals, a prototype Julia > typechecker, > >> > etc.). That said there will also be a number of talks that deal with > >> > using > >> > Julia to solve some sort of technical computing problem (e.g. > >> > parallelizing > >> > sparse matrix multiplication), which even novice Julia users will > >> > probably > >> > be able to appreciate provided that they have some understanding of > the > >> > mathematical/scientific content. So I would say in order to get a lot > >> > out of > >> > the conference, attendees should probably ether be relatively > >> > experienced > >> > Julia users, or have domain knowledge in one or more areas that Julia > is > >> > used in (numerical linear algebra, statistics, machine learning, > etc.) > >> > > >> > As far as Luis's question— > >> > > >> > Yes, we've been meaning to get this information up for a while, it > >> > should be > >> > on the website soon. > >> > > >> > Cheers, > >> > James > >> > > >> > > >> > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Luis Benet <luis.b...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> > >> > wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Hi, > >> >> > >> >> can you post some information/recommendation about nearby hotels or > >> >> other > >> >> accommodation possibilities? > >> >> > >> >> Thanks, > >> >> > >> >> Luis > >> > > >> > > > > > >
