[Chicago] Machine learning, all the cool kids are doing it.

Mon Apr 29 23:45:43 CEST 2013

All good points! Esp., about filling the gap. I think a couple people
getting together for a quick hangout or something to work over an immediate
problem ("Hey guys, I'm stuck can anyone help?" "Sure...") can be really
helpful. Sometimes you can't wait a week to work through something.

-- 
Jason Wirth
    213.675.5294
    wirth.jason at gmail.com

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Yarko Tymciurak <yarkot1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jason -
>
> Why don't you post this to the google-plus community.
>
> About a year ago (after pycon-2012, I think) we did a ChiPY-north in
> Mundelein (long way to down-town), and opened it to people via plus.
>
> The advantage:  anyone can speak, and share screen (or docs).
>
> I'm with you about face-to-face, but hangouts should fill the gap when you
> can't make the travel/time/whatever, but still want to be "present".
>
> That's the way I envision this - in person, if at all possible;   backup
> plan is we'll always open to plus.
> Downside to that:   the hangout limits are to 10 people as participants,
> but we can do "hangout-on-air" (broadcast) and people working remote can
> join smaller workgroups through satellite hangouts.   I think this should
> work (even if it takes a while to figure out how to coordinate).
>
> Also, with "on-air" we can broadcast and save, for those who missed the
> time but _really_ wanted to be there.
>
> Regards,
> - Yarko
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Jason Wirth <wirth.jason at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I haven't used Google Hangouts before, so I can't say how useful it will
>> be. Certainly it's convenient.
>>
>> However, I'm interested in meeting up on a semi-regular basis. (Maybe
>> ever two weeks?) It's certainly not as convenient as a Hangout, but I think
>> the one-on-one human factor is huge. Even a meetup with 2 or 3 people is
>> sufficient.
>>
>> Why don't we do the Hangout this weekend, I'm available to meet next week
>> either daytime Friday or Saturday morning / daytime.
>>
>> The class is has a series of video lectures and a programming assignment,
>> done in Octave. Coursera classes are often use bots to grade assignments,
>> so you'll upload your program to be checked. I would imagine that people
>> could watch the videos and maybe try the homework. At the meeting people
>> could...
>> -- go over the homework,
>> -- get help on some of the math topics (matrix multiplication, anyone?),
>> -- implement it in python (how can we implement gradient ascent in
>> Python, is there something in SciKits.learn we could use?),
>> -- and build upon the lesson.
>>
>> There's a wealth of options available.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jason Wirth
>>     213.675.5294
>>     wirth.jason at gmail.com
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Yarko Tymciurak <yarkot1 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Ok - I've made a google-plus community (rather than a google group) -
>>> "Machine Learning Chicago".
>>>
>>> Its public, open to anyone to join.
>>>
>>> Also note there is a hefty chicago ML study group already -
>>> http://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Machine-Learning-Study-Group/
>>> ... as well as a uchicago program - http://ml.cs.uchicago.edu/ ... and
>>> more.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> - Yarko
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:18 PM, JP Bader <jp at zavteq.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm also signed up, but since Skip already noted the 50% involvement
>>>> rule, I'm hoping I can get through at least that much.
>>>>
>>>> Yarko, please create a goog group/hangout, and can we utilize PS1 for
>>>> getting together once maybe every 2 weeks?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Yarko Tymciurak <yarkot1 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Interesting... I count 6 now;  if 1/2 interact, that could be a bit
>>>>> thin, so I'll throw my hat in the ring (story about far away galaxies
>>>>> applies hear also).
>>>>>
>>>>> How do you plan to do this?
>>>>> Google group + hangout + occiasional social meet-up?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> - Yarko
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> > So this time around I'm hoping to find someone interested in going
>>>>>> through
>>>>>> > it together, particularly with a Python focus. Any takers?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I signed up, though I warn you that the last time I took a university
>>>>>> class was a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Skip
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