Next Sheffield .NET User Group meeting Feb 6th

[Sheffield .NET User Group]

Hi all,

Our next meeting of the Sheffield .NET User Group will be on Thurs Feb 6th 18:30 - 20:30 at the Tribal offices. Tribal is located at Bramall Lane roundabout, 10 minutes walk from Sheffield train station:

http://www.tribalgroup.com/aboutus/contactus/pages/officedetails.aspx?ContactItem_ID=323

This meeting will be an introductory session on Machine Learning, led by Grant Crofton (@relentlessdev). He'll be giving an introduction to machine learning and neural networks, before introducing the K-Nearest Neighbours problem and then presenting us with a Machine Learning coding challenge to work on. We'll spend half the session working on the coding problem, with the chance to compare results at the end. As this is partly a coding session, try to bring along a laptop with Visual Studio or Mono and F# installed.

If you'd like to attend this meeting then registration is free, but you'll need to register before the meeting:

https://plus.google.com/events/cvl4t3j295i693n4mpas4v1b2ts

The Sheffield .NET User Group is open to all levels of .NET user, including those who don't currently know any .NET languages, but would like to learn. To find out more, follow @dotnetsheff or see the Google group:

groups.google.com/group/dotnetsheffield

Thanks,

Daley

[Grant Crofton]

Yeah, thanks Daley, looking forward to it!

To be clear, you don't *need* to use F#, C# is also fine if you haven't yet caught the functional bug.

So if you'd like to find out a bit about Machine Learning with Terminator-based examples, and try implementing your very own hand-written digit classifier, I'll see you on Thursday!

Grant