Clojurians Log v2

I used to be active in RoboCup (about 5 years ago), and there was a team who built their server in clojure, and an derivative language to run on their robots. Its called ferret; https://github.com/nakkaya/ferret

Wow that's super cool. Compile it down to C++11 executables! genius

I'm going to write my thoughts in a google doc so it's easier to share.

@jimmy @dane.email I wrote an overview of how we can match segments of the paper to a meeting time frequency so that we can finish it fast enough that we dont lose interest but slow enough to learn the material. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kDhgVYVt4aelzuVPheaL2tM7sb1w0kjrLnf6Dp7lCCc/edit?usp=sharing

Apologies for any mistakes in that doc, the next thing on my list is to fix my keyboard.

Two questions. Kind of confused on the timeline. It lists 10 different reading goals, that are biweekly and then says we would finish in 6 weeks. Something isn't adding up in my brain. Maybe I'm misunderstanding? The other thing I'm unsure about is the desire for 6 people. I've found that this is often the hardest part. I have no idea what time zones you all are in, but finding that many people who want to read a thesis and can meet at the same times might be a bit tricky. I've seen lots of groups not exist because of goals like that. I guess I'm just curious why you want that minimum number?

I will add that I've been quickly reading through and it is a super readable paper.

err i said bi weekly, what i meant was twice per week.

no hard reason on the number of people, it means if 2 dont show we still have 4 which is comfortable.

agreeing on a time is a big deal

Makes sense on both counts. But would definitely recommend making the number of people a loose goal. I'm in us east time zone and can do this during work hours. Not sure I could do twice a week outside work hours.

It's your call, no point in meeting if no one can meet. Given the density of the material, I suspect we will have questions and discussions points long before the meeting then. Once a week should be fine, but then I would up the amount of reading. Unless we want to make it a two month thing.

@jimmy @dane.email I made a discord sever. https://discord.gg/Cg5kJQHt I suppose we could try to make a short lived channel on this slack to, idc. The messages will disappear really fast though. The goal for today is to set a first meeting date and reading. It seems like we should do about 20 pages or so a week and meet at the end to discuss it in person for maybe half an hour to an hour. Meanwhile we can ask questions or discuss it in the discord at anytime. Feel free to invite more people. These things are never perfect and if your not finding value in it then its easy to back out 🙂

That's a pretty cool idea