Seattle, 28 August: User meetup

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Where: 83 S King St, #250, Seattle WA; hosted by Metis
When: Start at 6:00pm
What: Talk by Jeff Bezanson, Lightning talks, and food

We hope you can join us for a fun evening with a talk by Jeff Bezanson and maybe a couple of lightning talks (interested in speaking? contact me). It should be interesting for experts and novices alike!

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I’m planning to attend; this will be my first time. Is there anywhere I need to go to sign up?

Thanks.

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Just added the sign-up link for Meetup!

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Dear Valentin -

I just found out about this meet up, but I would be happy to give a lightning talk on a new fast one-dimensional Gaussian Process algorithm developed by myself, Sivaram Ambikasaran, and Dan Foreman-Mackey. Dan and I have written a Julia version: celerite.jl

Cheers, Eric Agol

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We’ve added another speaker!! Eric Agol (UW) will present Celerite, a fast and scalable approach for 1-dimensional Gaussian processes, with implementations in Julia, Python, and C++.

All that, and pizza too!

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Thanks to @jeff.bezanson, @vchuravy, @staticfloat, and @ericagol for presenting, and to @ararslan and @bobmccrory for lively discussion.

Also in attendance (but maybe not on discourse yet?) were Jay Coskey, Ryan Murray, Dan Allison, and @dellison . Am I missing people?

Now’s the time to start thinking about next month. An introductory session would be great, but can we target more specifically? A few possibilities:

  • Basic programming
  • Ecosystem in general
  • Julia for Python users, maybe specifically things that are hard in Python and easy in Julia
  • Some basics, plus calling Python, R, etc

What would be most useful for you, and what would pull in the most people?

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Many thanks to Chad, to Metis for hosting, and everyone who was involved with organizing and all who gave talks! It was really great to meet everyone, and I thought all the talks were really cool. Can’t wait for the next one!

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