Berkeley LW Meet-up Saturday November 6

4 Post author: LucasSloan 01 November 2010 02:35AM

Last month, about 20 people showed up to the Berkeley LW meet-up.  To continue the tradition of Berkeley Meetups, we will be meeting on Saturday, November 6 at 7 PM at the Starbucks at 2224 Shattuck Avenue.  Last time, we chatted at the Starbucks for about 45 minutes, then went to get dinner and ate and talked under a T-Rex skeleton - we'll probably do something similar, so don't feel like you have to eat before you come.  Hope to see you there!

 

ETA: As per User:Kevin's suggestion, we will instead be meeting at the Starbucks at 2128 Oxford Street.

Comments (16)

Comment author: Kevin 01 November 2010 01:32:23AM *  2 points [-]

Can we meet somewhere else? That Starbucks is tiny and too awkward to talk. At the very least the other Starbucks a block away on Oxford St has more floorspace.

We could even just meet at the small plaza at the West Gate of campus.

Comment author: LucasSloan 01 November 2010 02:31:06AM 0 points [-]

Yeah, I guess.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 01 November 2010 05:09:42AM *  1 point [-]

Usability suggestion: Put the amended meetup location right after the crossed-out old one and not at the end of the post.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 01 November 2010 11:36:48AM 1 point [-]

And tell the original venue where you've moved to-- they might tell folks where they need to go.

Comment author: fischer 01 November 2010 05:19:43AM 1 point [-]

I've often been curious as to what goes on at these, and this one would work (I'm a researcher at Cal). For a vet: how would describe a LW meetup?

Comment author: Kevin 01 November 2010 08:27:02AM 2 points [-]

Last time we met up at Starbucks, walked across the street where some people got food to go from Burgermeister, then found an open building at Cal with plenty of free space for us.

Then it was wide ranging group conversation in mingle mode about the wide array of topics sometimes covered on LW. Then everyone was invited to my house to continue conversations and/or drink beer.

It's very casual and very low pressure. No one will judge you for not having read enough of LW or anything.

Comment author: bisserlis 01 November 2010 08:59:32AM 4 points [-]

On a related note, one topic that came up particularly frequently that some of us bonded over was rarely or never contributing. So to anyone out there lurking, don't be afraid to come just because you don't post. You won't be alone.

Comment author: bisserlis 31 October 2010 06:39:35PM 1 point [-]

I believe I will be able to attend.

We might be well-served by finding a new place to meet with more space or seating for the next meeting. The Starbucks got to be rather crowded last time.

Comment author: Scott_Jackisch 07 November 2010 07:26:21PM *  0 points [-]

I talked to one fellow about GO playing AI last night and I mentioned these Restricted Boltzmann Machines. If the GO problem can be cast as an image processing problem, RBMs might be worth looking into: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M Here is a more recent Google Tech talk by Hinton on RBMs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdIURAu1-aU

Comment author: joschu 03 November 2010 06:47:08AM 0 points [-]

I'll be there.

Comment author: katydee 31 October 2010 11:22:40PM 0 points [-]

Can't make it to this one. Will there be one in December?

Comment author: LucasSloan 05 November 2010 06:56:47PM 0 points [-]

Yes.

Comment author: Relsqui 31 October 2010 09:44:13AM *  0 points [-]

Okay, I give up. Unless you went all the way down to the peninsula, where'd you find a t-rex? (Also, I wouldn't have thought that Starbucks sat 20--live and learn. It's the one next to the theater, isn't it?)

Comment author: bisserlis 31 October 2010 06:27:32PM 1 point [-]

Well, it didn't sit 20. We stood around and blocked traffic mostly.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 31 October 2010 05:42:37PM 0 points [-]

Unless you went all the way down to the peninsula, where'd you find a t-rex?

Cal, in one of the big buildings to which the doors were unlocked.

Comment author: Nick_Hay 06 November 2010 02:55:54AM 0 points [-]

The T-rex is in the Valley Life Sciences Building. There's a few other fossils there too.