February meeting 2012-02-09

[Marco Fontani]

Hi all,

It's the new year already and it's been a hell of a long while since the last time we met in Glasgow.

I would try and arrange for us to meet the day after the second Wednesday of February, 2012-02-09.

I hope we'll be able to use the old venue, s1 offices: could some of you find out if that's still viable?

Moreover, could we all prepare even a short 5-minutes presentation to give at the event?

Since this is the first meeting of the new year, I wouldn't try and impose any topic, so go wild!

After the meeting, as usual, we may retire to one of the many pubs which serve {non-,}alcoholic beverages for all.

New rules:
* any newcomers will have a pint/glass of favourite beverage on me
* any people bringing a presentation will have the same

Look forward to hearing from you all soon!
Please submit any ideas/topics for your talk on the list so people will see who will make it, and
who will bring a talk on which subject :)

Happy new year!
-marco-

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[Miles Gould]

Sounds good! I've got a couple of ideas for talks I could give.

Miles

[Wim Vanderbauwhede]

Yes, sounds good to me too! I have some ideas, not all Perl-specific. I could talk about my Fortran-refactoring tool (written in Perl) or about a simple wrapper for OpenCL which should make it easy to run GPU kernels from Perl.

Wim

On 3 January 2012 12:29, Miles Gould <mi...@assyrian.org.uk> wrote:

Sounds good! I've got a couple of ideas for talks I could give.

Miles

--
If it's pointless, what's the point?
If there is a point to it, what's the point?
(Tibor Fischer, "The Thought Gang")

[Wim Vanderbauwhede]

Hi folks,

Is the meeting on this Thursday? I've just done some cool work on GPU programming in Perl via OpenCL, thought you'd might want to hear about it :-)

Cheers,

Wim

[Paul McNally]

yes it's on - who's coming?

Paul

Sent from my iPad

[Miles Gould]

On 06/02/12 23:56, Paul McNally wrote:
> yes it's on - who's coming?

I'm coming, though I still need to write my talk - working title
"Machine learning in (WLOG) Perl".

Miles

[markm...@gmail.com]

I would very much like to be part of this, but i'm not in a position
to contribute anything for this meeting.
If it has been confirmed, what is the schedule?

cheers

Mark

On Feb 6, 11:56 pm, Paul McNally <paulmcnally...@gmail.com> wrote:
> yes it's on - who's coming?
>
> Paul
>
> Sent from my iPad
>

> On 6 Feb 2012, at 20:42, Wim Vanderbauwhede <wim.vanderbauwh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
>
> > Is the meeting on this Thursday? I've just done some cool work on GPU programming in Perl via OpenCL, thought you'd might want to hear about it :-)
>
> > Cheers,
>
> > Wim
>

[Marco Fontani]

> I would very much like to be part of this, but i'm not in a position
> to contribute anything for this meeting.
> If it has been confirmed, what is the schedule?

Meeting is at 1830 "in front" of the Glasgow Herald and Times building.
I believe the side entrance will likely be used, so meet roughly at the
bars which stop cars from going in.

We seem to have two/three talks lined up so far, which is great!

After the meeting and talks are done, we usually retreat for a friendly
pint at a nearby pub.

Look forward to seeing you all there!

[paul mcnally]

Hi Mark,
You are welcome to come along. We meet in the Evening Times building
(top of Renfield st) at 6:15 on Thursday. I will pm you my mobile
number.

Paul

[paul mcnally]

6:30 - scuse me.

Anyone is free to come along - contact me to get my mobile number to
get into the building.

Paul

[Aaron Crane]

Miles Gould <mi...@assyrian.org.uk> wrote:
> I'm coming, though I still need to write my talk - working title "Machine
> learning in (WLOG) Perl".

Me too.

Well, apart from my talk's working title, that is — two the same would
be a little odd. I'm going for "The contraindications of context".

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