: Nelkinda January Meetup
The meetup consists of two talks. One talk is on Machine Learning which is a series of talks and this meetup will cover Part 1 of that series. The second talk consists of Hands-on Introduction to Clojure.
Topic 1: Machine Learning Agents - Part 1
This topic will be presented by Ramakrishna Reddy.
Ramakrishna is a versatile Software Craftsperson at Nelkinda Software Craft. He has solid experience in embedded software development and IoT domain. Rama is skilled in various technologies and always strives to upgrade himself with the upcoming technology learning and knowledge.
Highlights of the talk
- What is Machine Learning
- What are ML Agents
- Creating Anaconda Virtual Environments
- TensorFlow-GPU
- Jupyter Notebook
- Unity for Linux
- TensorFlowSharp
- Creating new ML Agents
- Reinforcement Learning
- GPU Requirements
Topic 2: Hands-on Introduction to Clojure
This topic will be presented by Tanay Prabhu Desai.
Tanay is a versatile Software Craftsperson at Nelkinda Software Craft. He is quite passionate about computers and technologies and carries very good industry experience especially in Python. He carries knowledge and interest in the variety of areas like android apps, computer algorithms, parallelizing algorithms, performance improvement and using and implementing programming paradigms, AI and ML.
Highlights of the talk
- About Clojure programming language
- Introduction to the Lisp syntax used by Clojure
- Using the REPL
- Basic programming (Arithmetic, Logic etc.)
- Iteration / Looping
- Data Structures and Immutability
- Higher Order functions
- Map, Reduce and Filter
- Writing unit tests
- Popular applications of Clojure
Who should attend this talk
- Those who want to learn a Lisp like language or Clojure itself
- Those who want to get started with an impure functional language