MEETING: Monday, November 9th, 7pm, NedSpace Old Town

[Igal Koshevoy]

All: The next meeting of pdxfunc is coming up.

Don: You mentioned interest in giving a demo/talk about things like
specializing data structures, visualizing the live heap, criterion
benchmarking, and judy arrays. Are you up for giving this talk this
month? If so, can you send me a title, paragraph topic summary and short
bio? Thanks!

-igal

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http://calagator.org/events/1250457807

Join programmers, researchers and enthusiasts to discuss functional
programming. pdxfunc is a study/user group exploring the world of
functional programming based in Portland, Oregon. The group welcomes
programmers interested in all functional languages, including Haskell,
Erlang, OCaml, Scala, and others. The group meets regularly and provides
presentations, demos and discussions applicable to all skill levels,
from newbies and experts. The meetings are usually on the second Monday
of the month.

Space for the meeting is kindly provided by NedSpace, a co-working space
for startups, innovative technology companies, non-profits, artists and
social entrepreneurs.

[Igal Koshevoy]

We need your feedback! Please reply by tomorrow, Friday.

Don Stewart's graciously offered to speak at our upcoming meeting, but
needs to know which talk to give.

He gave a popular talk on parallelising Haskell using multicore
programming at pdxfunc last year, and he's added new content since. Here
are slides from his recent DEFUN tutorial: http://bit.ly/17HvLd

The other option is a talk about self-optimizing data structures and
fast mutable collections for Haskell. Here are links to his work on
these: http://bit.ly/2Rxo0R and http://bit.ly/13GEUK

Which would you prefer to hear about?

-igal

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[Jesse Cooke]

I vote for self-optimizing data structures and fast mutable collections for Haskell

"The best part about math is that, if you have the right answer and someone disagrees with you, it really is because they're stupid."

[Jeremy Voorhis]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Jesse Cooke <cook...@gmail.com> wrote:

I vote for self-optimizing data structures and fast mutable collections for Haskell

+1

 

I've seen the parallelization slides online and the talk must have been great, but I'd much prefer to learn something new about self-optimizing data structures.

Best,

Jeremy

[Matt Youell]

On Nov 5, 11:29 am, Jesse Cooke <cooke1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I vote for self-optimizing data structures and fast mutable collections for
> Haskell

+1

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http://youell.com/matt

[s coles]

On Nov 5, 11:29 am, Jesse Cooke <cooke1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I vote for self-optimizing data structures and fast mutable collections for
> Haskell

 
This :)

-Sam

[Don Stewart]

Looks like consensus is for self-optimizing data structures.

I'll get an abstract together!

igal:

[isNan]

I was a little late to the last meeting and there was a note to call
to be let in.

Happily, I don't have a cell phone.

Assuming I am on time, will there be somebody at the door so I can get
in ?

Thanks

Brian

[Julian Blake Kongslie]

On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 21:00 -0800, isNan wrote:
> I was a little late to the last meeting and there was a note to call
> to be let in.
>
> Happily, I don't have a cell phone.
>
> Assuming I am on time, will there be somebody at the door so I can get
> in ?

Last time a few of us were trying to keep our eyes on the various doors
prior to the start of the meeting to catch people without cellphones,
I'm sorry we missed you! I'll make sure to watch the doors next time as
well, and I'm willing to stay downstairs maybe 5-10 minutes past the
start of the meeting time to catch stragglers.

People showing up late without a cellphone are something of a problem,
though; I don't think anyone wants to commit to missing very much of the
presentation to possibly let people in. It'd be nice if there was a way
to dial to the office from that directory machine outside, anyone know
if that's possible?

> Thanks
>
> Brian

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vim: set ft=text :

[Amy K. Farrell]

Yes, last time one of the early arrivals waited by the door to let
people in.

This time we could plan to send someone down to check for late arrivals
after introductions, as well.

It would be nice to find some more reliable signaling method. The
conference room is away from the windows, so sending up a flare isn't an
option...

- Amy

[a b]

Thanks all.

I'll make sure and be on time :-)

[Igal Koshevoy]

See you at tonight's meeting! 7pm at NedSpace Old Town.

http://calagator.org/events/1250457807

TITLE: Designing, visualizing and benchmarking data structures in Haskell

ABSTRACT: Understanding how functional languages represent data
structures is key to writing efficient programs in such languages.
There are a number of new tools in the Haskell ecosystem for
understanding what the compiler is doing: vacuum - for visualizing the
heap, criterion - for statistically sound benchmarking, and powerful
new type system features enabling new kinds of library design. This
talk will introduce these tools, and we'll look at how they impact the
way we develop new data structures in Haskell.

BIO: Don is an Australian open source hacker, and engineer at Galois,
Inc, in Portland, where he works on assurance in critical systems. Don
is co-author of the book, Real World Haskell
(http://realworldhaskell.org), and the XMonad window manager. He
enjoys cycling and hoppy beer.

GROUP: Join programmers, researchers and enthusiasts to discuss

functional programming. pdxfunc is a study/user group exploring the
world of functional programming based in Portland, Oregon. The group
welcomes programmers interested in all functional languages, including
Haskell, Erlang, OCaml, Scala, and others. The group meets regularly
and provides presentations, demos and discussions applicable to all
skill levels, from newbies and experts. The meetings are usually on
the second Monday of the month.

VENUE: Space for the meeting is kindly provided by NedSpace, a

[Igal Koshevoy]

Thanks for reporting this and sorry about the trouble.

Unless we figure out a better way, how about this: we'll have someone
at the door till 7:10pm, and after that, in addition to being called
down by phone, we'll have someone make a quick check outside at 7:20
and 7:30 for late arrivals. We'll post the finalized details on a note
on the door.

Sound okay?

-igal

PS: One could also ask one of the computer-using folks at a nearby
venue like BackSpace if they can call or send an SMS of "door" to the
number we post.
PPS: Do public phones exist outside 80's Superman movies?

[a b]

Sounds OK, and I'll volunteer to be that someone.

Brian

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Igal Koshevoy <ig...@pragmaticraft.com> wrote:

> PPS: Do public phones exist outside 80's Superman movies?

Well, Plastic Man could change clothes inside a cell phone ;-)

--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
http://borasky-research.net

"I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God." ~Alan Hovhaness

[Phil Tomson]

Anyone know if NedSpace has parking spaces?

I've never been there...

Phil

[Amy Farrell]

Phil Tomson wrote:
> Anyone know if NedSpace has parking spaces?
>
> I've never been there...
>

It does not. There is a pay lot across the street, and it's not hard to
find on-street parking in the area (you need to pay for on-street up to
7 pm).

- Amy

[Igal Koshevoy]

Brian,

Thank you for volunteering to help with the door. Please catch up with
me at the meeting to work out details.

-igal

[Igal Koshevoy]

Thanks for providing the details, Amy.

-igal

[Jesse Cooke]

If you live on the East side, you can take the Green or Yellow line from Lloyd Center (which has "free" parking) right to NedSpace. It's handy.

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