Study Group in Austin, TX

gamino · October 23, 2018, 1:37am

Anyone interested in forming a study group in Austin, TX, post here.

soco_loco · October 23, 2018, 1:41am

You doing in-person or virtual, I’m north SA so not too bad

gamino · October 23, 2018, 1:42am

We can figure it out, either way would work. I work in Austin, live north.

RobZua · October 23, 2018, 1:47am

Hey everyone! Im in austin - hyde park area. I’d be interested in either virtual and in-person meetups.

Ralph · October 23, 2018, 1:49am

I work downtown, live in Dripping Springs.

soco_loco · October 23, 2018, 1:49am

Do we keep this in the forums or make a discord channel and leave a link here?

gamino · October 23, 2018, 1:51am

I thought this was discord. Is that something different?

soco_loco · October 23, 2018, 1:53am

I think most people do Slack or Discord

gamino · October 23, 2018, 1:58am

Any preference on the day/time to meet?

soco_loco · October 23, 2018, 2:00am

I’m good with whatever, pretty flexible here

soco_loco · October 23, 2018, 2:59am

Hi Austin. I like this fast.ai live concept and the 6vote threshold. I’m interested in medical image recognition and some categorical data clustering.

gamino · October 23, 2018, 3:03am

I’ve been playing with fast ai ULM fit text classification, pretty powerful stuff.

gamino · October 28, 2018, 1:34am

Anyone interested on getting together (through hangouts or xoom) before the class on Monday at 7:30?

soco_loco · October 29, 2018, 10:31pm

I’m trying to think of ideas where it would be useful to meetup virtual or IRL. Most of the time I’m just running through code or doing Kaggle stuff. We should brainstorm on things that might be good to do as a group.

I was thinking of picking a Kaggle competition and then working on one part of it or deciding on a group project to do for that week. Each week we would pick a different objective based on the lesson.

gamino · October 29, 2018, 11:56pm

We could, not sure if we could do a project every week though, maybe a few weeks at a time? Also, I was under the impression we would get homework through this? Maybe we can work on that?

soco_loco · October 30, 2018, 3:40am

That’s a good idea. I think Jeremy usually says something along the lines of “apply the lessons we learned today to your own data.” So we can take whatever he says, interpret it, and then come up with a constructive applied task that would be fun to do as a group.

soco_loco · November 3, 2018, 2:10pm

@gamino Looked into any webapp stuff yet? Looking at Jeremy’s recommendations at:
https://www.pythonanywhere.com

bjack913 · January 31, 2019, 11:07pm

Did this study group ever get off the ground? I’m also in Austin.

gamino · February 14, 2019, 2:34am

We didn’t meet, will try again on part 2

mediocrates · May 3, 2019, 3:40am

I live in Austin, TX! I just finished part 2. I live in downtown and work in West Lake Hills.