<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10px"><div><span>I'm only in LA on Thursdays now. If you moved the meeting to Thursday, I might actually be able to show up. This talk sound very interesting to me as I'm mostly a self-taught programmer and have been trying to beef up my formal CS knowledge recently.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>-Mike<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida
Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Buddy Burden <barefootcoder@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Theron Stanford <shixilun@gmail.com>; Andrew Grangaard <granny+lapm@gmail.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Los Angeles Perl Mongers <losangeles-pm@pm.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, October 20, 2014 4:05 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [LA.pm] Perl October Meeting - Next Wednesay! Speakers wanted!<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>Theron,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Last meeting, Andrew spoke on "Computer Science for the self-taught<br
clear="none">> hacker/engineer".<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Perhaps I could follow this up with a real-world example: how I used<br clear="none">> some ideas from computer science and math (gasp!) in a long-term project<br clear="none">> I worked on for a linguistics professor, speeding up his Perl code<br clear="none">> considerably at each code iteration over the course of 4+ years.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> So it would be a mix of code, history, a tiny bit of linguistics, and<br clear="none">> modest bragging.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I would love to hear that. Although, Wednesdays are tough for me to <br clear="none">make these days. I wonder how people feel about Thursdays ... not this <br clear="none">month, of course, but just checking the mood of the group for a change <br clear="none">of weekday.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">And/or, if there's any way to record the talk this
month, that'd be <br clear="none">awesome! :-)<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"> -- Buddy<div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yqt4891391376" id="yqtfd54309"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Losangeles-pm mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Losangeles-pm@pm.org" href="mailto:Losangeles-pm@pm.org">Losangeles-pm@pm.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm" target="_blank">http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>