meeting_00027_20210623.md

Rust ML WG Meeting 00027

Meeting Info

Date: 20210623

Start time: 1400ET

Zoom: https://1password.zoom.us/j/98539918663?pwd=T2tBT0JvZ0dTMXNaSHJFcHcxLzRBdz09

Agenda

• go over Ricky's meeting with Niko

Participants

• Ricky
• Manual
• Ivano
• Yuhan
• Lorenz
• david

Minutes

• running test suite for manual's rustc pull request
  • rust-lang/rust#86267
  • able to use standard rustc nightly for enzyme
  • rust-lang/rust#82734 (comment)
• linfa
  • optics pull request november 2020
  • got new life, and hopefully it will get merged in the future!
  • new official maintainer yuhan!
    • PR to linfa for the past few months
      • different algorithms for k-nearest-neighbor
  • ivano's PR
    • cannot work on it right now
    • plan to work on it
    • PoC of how it can be effective
      • if anyone wants to take it over please let him know
  • Lorenz wants to find all people who have access if they still need access
    • 9 people in the access group, so it might be time to clean up
• Rust Cross-Team Collaboration Fun Times (CTCFT)
  • https://rust-ctcft.github.io/ctcft/welcome.html
    • last meeting was June 21 2021 here
      • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksSuXNmGZNA
  • basically a meta-group for support for Working/Interest Groups
  • Using RustML IG (interest Group) as an example group of their experiences
  • should present in July meeting (around the 21st)
• book chapter for logistic regression
  • "definitely" done by next meeting
  • some code for the example
• RustConf
  • Call for papers ends 11 July 2021
  • Conference is 14 September 2021
  • we should totally do something!
    • tutorial with data science using Rust
  • https://rustconf.com/
• david
  • new here! looking to help contribute to linfa
  • interesting talk about a new feature learning technique
  • wants to eventually use Rust to redo a university project but needs to work his way there with Rust and ML
  • looking for a good getting started issue

Actions

• lorenz contact linfa admins to clean that up
  • leave 3 or 4 people who have admin access just in case so we have coverage
• chris work on RustML book chapter
• Ricky post Niko's question
• Ricky doc RustConf talk ideas