From jacoby.david at gmail.com Mon Aug 15 12:19:30 2016 From: jacoby.david at gmail.com (Dave Jacoby) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:19:30 -0400 Subject: [Purdue-pm] Administrivia Mail : Next Meeting? Message-ID: TL;DR: Reply responding to * on-campus: yes/no * Wednesday before Food & Chat: yes/no * I am interested in : (TOPIC) * I can present on: (TOPIC) Message Body: Thanks to Ken for his talk on OpenCV. I've already turned his talk into something I can "practically" use, adding "do I see an upper body?" to my automated picture-tweeter code. Good job. And, thanks to Joe, we have moved from http://pm.purdue.org to http://purdue.pl (a change I'm waiting to be blessed by the Perl Foundation) We could go forward with the same Hack-Time and Hack-Location for next meeting, which would be September 14th at MatchBox. However, Broc is off his feet for the next few days and Wally hasn't been coming, so we are without an attendee with a MatchBox membership. I can usually get in just by knocking or standing at the door, but this seems dishonest. Plus, the hope that we'd get more non-Purdue attendees by moving off-campus seems to have been a bust. I suggest we move back to campus, but with an evening meeting instead of the lunchtime. If possible, same time -- 6pm Wednesday -- but on campus rather than downtown. I could try to get WSLR 116 again, or we could try to get a room more centrally located. So, please respond with your boolean vote on returning to campus and sticking to Food&Chat Wednesdays. Also, we need to start planning for the content of September's meeting. I have a sense of what I can talk about and what I'm interested, but if I'm the only one interested, turnout is low. So, everyone post a topic you're interested in and one you feel like you can present on. It does not have to be Perl-related or even technical, but that's toward our mandate. My votes: * on-campus: yes * Wednesday before Food & Chat: yes * I am interested in : Machine Learning * I can present on: GeoCoding, DBIx::Class -- David Jacoby jacoby.david at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mark at ecn.purdue.edu Mon Aug 15 12:47:21 2016 From: mark at ecn.purdue.edu (Mark Senn) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:47:21 -0400 Subject: [Purdue-pm] Administrivia Mail : Next Meeting? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <41888.1471290441@pier.ecn.purdue.edu> > TL;DR: Reply responding to > > * on-campus: yes/no > * Wednesday before Food & Chat: yes/no > * I am interested in : (TOPIC) > * I can present on: (TOPIC) > > Message Body: > > Thanks to Ken for his talk on OpenCV. I've already turned his talk into > something I can "practically" use, adding "do I see an upper body?" to > my automated picture-tweeter code. Good job. I didn't attend his talk but got interested in computer vision and so on after hearing of his talk and reading Dave's picture-tweeter code. I'm writing a program to highlight and count the number of baseball fields in Tippecanoe County in Mathematica 11 (which just came out a few days ago). One can print a satellite image of Tippecanoe County, with line on border of county, plus a little bit of the image over the county line in one line of code in Mathematica 11. You don't need to know anything except Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States to do this. > And, thanks to Joe, we have moved from http://pm.purdue.org to > http://purdue.pl (a change I'm waiting to be blessed by the Perl > Foundation) (I prefer pm.purdue.org---purdue.pl doesn't include Perl 6 enough to suit me.) > We could go forward with the same Hack-Time and Hack-Location for next > meeting, which would be September 14th at MatchBox. However, Broc is off > his feet for the next few days and Wally hasn't been coming, so we are > without an attendee with a MatchBox membership. I can usually get in > just by knocking or standing at the door, but this seems dishonest. I agree. > Plus, the hope that we'd get more non-Purdue attendees by moving > off-campus seems to have been a bust. I agree. > I suggest we move back to campus, but with an evening meeting instead of > the lunchtime. If possible, same time -- 6pm Wednesday -- but on campus > rather than downtown. I could try to get WSLR 116 again, or we could try > to get a room more centrally located. I prefer around lunch but evening is ok. I like on campus much better than downtown. > So, please respond with your boolean vote on returning to campus and > sticking to Food&Chat Wednesdays. > > Also, we need to start planning for the content of September's > meeting. I have a sense of what I can talk about and what I'm > interested, but if I'm the only one interested, turnout is low. So, > everyone post a topic you're interested in and one you feel like you can > present on. It does not have to be Perl-related or even technical, but > that's toward our mandate. > > My votes: > * on-campus: yes > * Wednesday before Food & Chat: yes > * I am interested in : Machine Learning > * I can present on: GeoCoding, DBIx::Class Mark Senn's votes: on-campus: yes Wednesday before Food & Chat: ok with me, I don't Food & Chat I am interested in: Mathematica and Perl 6 (not interested in Perl 5) and autonomous, adaptive traffic signal systems that support vehicles with a complete range of different priorities. I can present on: (too busy with other stuff in short term) > David Jacoby jacoby.david at gmail.com Mark Senn From gizmo at purdue.edu Wed Aug 17 11:14:14 2016 From: gizmo at purdue.edu (Joe Kline) Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 14:14:14 -0400 Subject: [Purdue-pm] Administrivia Mail : Next Meeting? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <0beb470b-1346-b1ce-2dc4-461b0e7ddb5b@purdue.edu> On 08/15/2016 03:19 PM, Dave Jacoby wrote: > TL;DR: Reply responding to > > * on-campus: yes/no > * Wednesday before Food & Chat: yes/no > * I am interested in : (TOPIC) > * I can present on: (TOPIC) * on-campus: yes * Wednesday before Food & Chat: yes * I am interested in : just about anything * I can present on: just about anything (given enough time) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From mark at purdue.edu Wed Aug 24 11:33:16 2016 From: mark at purdue.edu (Mark Senn) Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 14:33:16 -0400 Subject: [Purdue-pm] Mathematica 11 and Perl 6 computer languages Message-ID: <17785.1472063596@pier.ecn.purdue.edu> Mathematica 11 is a very powerful programming language sold by Wolfram Research. Wolfram Research calls it "the word's definitive system for modern technical computing". I agree. See https://www.itap.purdue.edu/shopping/software/product/mathematica.html for more information about Purdue's site license for "teaching and non-commercial research". It is installed on many computers at Purdue now. See https://wolfram.com/mathematica for more information about Mathematica. Perl 6 is a very powerful programming language that was a complete redesign of Perl 5 from the ground up but still feels like Perl 5. Perl has been called "the glue of the Internet" because of all the the things it does. See https://wendyga.wordpress.com/2015/12/25/why-would-you-want-to-use-perl-6-some-answers/ for more information about Perl 6. I've used Perl 6 and like it better than Perl 5. Perl is a general purpose programming language that is especially good at text processing. Get the software for free from rakudo.org -mark