Hi Jonathan, I'm up for that too. Tom
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Jonathan Hartley <tart...@tartley.com> wrote: > Is anyone interested in going through those Strang's lectures with me? Like > a book club. We could watch one lecture a week at our own convenience, and > then use a google group or somesuch to discuss our answers to the exercises. > > A few of us are currently doing the same with SICP, and although our > progress is not terrifically speedy, it seems to be working out. > > Jonathan > > > On 11/12/2009 10:20, Ben Moran wrote: >> >> If anyone is interested in the Sudoku solver from last night's dojo, the >> code & links to the original paper can be found at >> http://transfinite.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/solving-sudoku-with-l1-norm-minimization/ >> . The slides are at http://www.slideshare.net/bnmoran/l1-sudoku-2657614 . >> >> (If you have been inspired to brush up your linear algebra, a good place >> is Gilbert Strang's MIT course, >> http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-06Spring-2005/CourseHome/index.htm >> ) >> >> Thinking about ideas for future events, I think it could be fun to do some >> more hands-on coding in small groups. How about: >> >> - Something like Robocode (maybe using Jython? >> http://www.mail-archive.com/edu-...@python.org/msg05371.html) >> - Playing with the IPython parallel features - >> http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/rel-0.9.1/html/parallel/index.html >> - Something with Twisted- I'm really keen to learn this. Perhaps we could >> set up a chat server using the demo projects, find some Eliza chatbot code & >> wire it in and stage a networked Turing test... >> >> Cheers >> >> Ben >> _______________________________________________ >> python-uk mailing list >> python-uk@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk >> > > > -- > Jonathan Hartley Made of meat. http://tartley.com > tart...@tartley.com +44 7737 062 225 twitter/skype: tartley > > > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
