# Rust ML WG Meeting 0001 20200421 Zoom (Meeting ID: 912 9219 5272) ## Agenda - [x] Meet and Greet with everyone - [x] Initial Roadmap for Rust-ML Deep Learning crate - [x] Overview of Development Items - (Ops, Backend tensor, Backprop,Graph (optional),Optimization (optional),Model serialization (optional), Weights serialization (optional), Backend abstraction (optional)) - [x] Discuss next steps - [x] Start researching crates - [x] PR to `mdbook` for KaTeX plugin? - [x] PRs to anything else right away? - [x] Annouce in [This Week in Rust](https://this-week-in-rust.org/)? - [x] Twitter account? ## Participants Ricky Chris Jamal Geordon ## Minutes ### Introductions and Chatting Talked with Chris on his library [tsuga](https://github.com/quietlychris/tsuga) would like to go more in depth with this to find good and bad of writing it so far ### Meet and greet with People Geordon - (pronounced jordan) since Rust 1.06 started rust CV group and active member there now Jamal currently works in fintech python, mainly works with NN for about a year, and Rust for 6 months Looking forward to getting Rust on FPGAs Chris Currently works in robotics 3 years with Rust background in Mechnical Engineering Ricky Works in Machine Learning lab day-to-day with Python Focuses on getting code running and pipelines Works with Rust since ~1.0 ### Scope Geordon's main interest is NN old statistical stuff (random forest etc) must be able to run inference on it Jamal same, mainly NN definitely happy to include the old stats methods, but not super interested in this Chris in his usecase found good cases for the older stats methods would like to create or improve them if we find gaps regaurdless of what we do, we should fit into the inputs/outputs of what already exists! ### arewelearningyet.com Chris talked a little with the owner of the site and thinks they might hand it over Everyone agreed this would be a great opportunity and a good way to keep track ### Github members and roles Chris and I are maintiners - need to add jamal and geordon - anyone else to the repoistory group? ### Mono repo or splits for new crates/ideas Let's think and see how it goes we can alway merge/split as we go along and how we feel ### Existing environment Basically we will wait and see how it goes, several people want to try to build a simple Neural Net to help discover holes. Chris has already started looking into specific crates using arewelearningyet.com as a guide I mentioned this could be a lot of work, and might require multiple people's search skills, and possibly more people from different areas of Rust ### KaTeX/MathJax Plugin for mdbook Hard to inject HTML headers into `mdbook` `mdbook` does support MathJax, with a lot of backslashes So does Rustdocs it injects html headers with javascript, so we can't easily match RustDoc Old PR for MathJax https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/pull/626 Issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/issues/400 - [x] Ping Lorenz about this ^^^^^^^ ### This Week Rust Maybe? but we might grow too big too fast Let's pause this for now then until we are more structured, as a group with goals and positive efforts ### Twitter grab twitter handle, rust-ml - [x] Ricky will grab that- [@rust_ml](https://twitter.com/rust_ml) ### Are we firm on the "Rust-ml" name Yeah lets stick with it, most working groups have pretty solid names, and it doesn't stop us from picking up say a stastical crate and adding it because ML uses it ### Next Meeting Plan for three weeks next meeting, to do some more research and discuss the next agenda #### Tuesday 20200512 Date for next meeting?, Maybe Wednesday 20200513?