This just in (from the organizer of the Slapdown): > I have received a large number of cancellations from presenters in the last five days. So, instead of 16 languages we are down to 7. > This small number defeats the purpose of the event, so I am going to cancel it.
Nurts! Thanks to all who offered suggestions. It's not a total waste as I now have a 5-minute J intro at the ready. For those of you with ideas on how to go about this, it might be worthwhile to put together your own 5-minute intro. I'd like to see how others approach this. Especially interesting would be some "live" demos: I had planned to assemble a lab to do this before I realized that the presentations were supposed to be canned. I'm sure Raul (see below) is correct about my attempt as I did skim through the pages with the graphs in my rehearsals in order to keep within the time limit. However, part of my strategy was to give people something interesting to look back to as this presentation would have been available on-line. On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > You will probably see this too late. > > In my opinion, you are still trying to present too much > for five minutes. Those pages are very busy, and > I think they present too much for a five minute presentation. > ... > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
