[Unofficial, Virtual] SF/Bay Area Study Group

Dina · March 20, 2020, 11:34pm

Hi, I totally missed this thread. I would like to also be added to that group. I am in south bay and work in Bioinformatics. Hope yesterday’s ‘virtual’ meeting was productive. Could you please add me to the calendar invite? email is : dina.hafez@gmail.com. Thanks

GullyABurns · March 21, 2020, 3:39am

I’m planning on participating in this group but won’t be able to join calls at 6:30. We have a toddler, and that’s slap bang in the middle of his bathtime. I’ll keep track of everyone on this thread though.

Hope everyone’s doing well.

Best

Gully

Albertotono · March 21, 2020, 3:47am

Thanks @GullyABurns, @steef has taken amazing notes regarding the meeting, the next meeting is on Monday at 6.30pm, if you have other preference and time we can try to accomodate them. we are around 13 people only. Best

akandi · March 22, 2020, 5:45am

Hello @steef

I missed this thread. I am based of San Jose and I work in VLSI hardware design. I would like to be part of the hangout session as well.

Jess · March 22, 2020, 8:04pm

I’ll try to join too since in the same time zone.

steef · March 22, 2020, 8:41pm

Hi all,

I’ve just done another round of sending out invites to new participants of our SF/bay area study group.

We now have a weekly Monday 6:30-7:30pm PST time slot aimed at preparing for the Tuesday lesson and a weekly Thursday 6:30-8:30pm PST time slot aimed at debriefing the prior lesson.

If anyone has reached out to me with their email address and you don’t have an invite by now, please direct message me (again if needed - sorry!) to make sure I add you!

Giacomo has been so friendly to set up a Zoom room for us which we’ll start to use from tomorrow. Details are in the calendar invite. Thanks @giacomov!

If you are unable to join our study group at the proposed times, you can still follow along by reviewing the meeting notes here. Also we may be able to accommodate different meeting times; if you have any suggestions, please just add a comment on the linked doc.

steef · March 24, 2020, 1:05am

FYI for everyone interested in this group: I’ve added more emails to the various calendar invites and the doc. If I missed you and you wanted to be included, please direct message me with your email address and I’ll happily add you.

Note that today we’ll be dialing into Zoom and the details are in the calendar invite.

giacomov · March 24, 2020, 1:30am

Hey guys,
sorry but I had to change the Zoom link. This is the new one:

Zoom ID: 236228728

nadlakha · March 25, 2020, 12:32am

Hi All,

Sorry I missed this thread but would love to join this study group. I am based out of San Jose. It will be great e-meeting you guys!

Cheers,
Nilanjana

Albertotono · March 25, 2020, 12:58am

We will meet this Thursday around 7.30pm. Looking forward to meeting you. Feel free to provide your email to @steef or also me so we can share with you the google docs in advance

mario_carrillo · March 25, 2020, 1:44am

Hi all,

A little late in the party here. I also live in the Bay Area (Marin County) and just as @steef I am lucky to still have a full time job so meeting in the evenings works perfect for me. @steef please let me know what info you need for me so I can be added to the calendars e-invites. Cheers!

Blowoffvalve · March 25, 2020, 2:37am

Hey @steef, I sent you a message with my email. Please add me.

golz · March 25, 2020, 6:35pm

Steef, Would you please add me to the email list. Mine is golz@yahoo.com. I can likely do Thursdays, but Mondays might be tough for me.
Thank you!
Jason

Albertotono · March 25, 2020, 9:49pm

@init_27 can you make the post a wiki post please and add this document?

best regards.

init_27 · March 26, 2020, 7:20am

@Albertotono Done!

Edit: @steef Please feel free to use the top wiki-editable by anyone for communication/link sharing.

steef · March 27, 2020, 1:33am

@all: I have just added a swath of new people interested to join the study group. If I did not include you, please direct message me with your email so I send an invite. Thanks!

bibsian · March 27, 2020, 4:41pm

I’m not able to make study groups every other Thursday and I’m wondering what I missed last night? I looked in the notes and saw a couple links and more project ideas but were there any other things worth sharing that might not be on that doc? Thanks.

abharani · March 30, 2020, 4:03am

Hey Guys,
I am new to fast.ai family and trying to cope up with the course as I started late.

After lesson 1, I started on lesson 2 today and had so much stuff to go over now .
I want to be part of a study group and don’t know where we can post a request to “search for team-mates/project partner/study group” .

I do have some applied data science experience (NLP) and worked on academic projects like SQuaD, reinforcement learning to play atari games (Open AI gym). Currently working as a data engineer.

Please guide, if someone knows how do we navigate in this online community to get most out of it. I am ready for zoom session in est/pst time-zone.

go_go_gadget · March 30, 2020, 5:06pm

Hi, all. I’m afraid that as much as I’d love to be a part of this, I need to admit to myself that I just don’t have the time due to kids being home all day during the shelter-in-place. I look forward to seeing your projects!

dcooper01 · March 31, 2020, 12:14am

@go_go_gadget If I can do anything to help you get a project off the ground, feel free to reach out. My sister has kids at home and I know how challenging it is right now. We don’t have children yet, so we have lots of free time! Let me know if there’s anything I can do to help!