# Rust ML WG Meeting 00027

## Meeting Info

Date: 20210623

Start time: 1400ET

Zoom: https://1password.zoom.us/j/98539918663?pwd=T2tBT0JvZ0dTMXNaSHJFcHcxLzRBdz09

## Agenda

- go over Ricky's meeting with Niko

## Participants

- Ricky
- Manual
- Ivano
- Yuhan
- Lorenz
- david

## Minutes

- running test suite for manual's rustc pull request
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/86267
- able to use standard `rustc` nightly for enzyme
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/82734#issuecomment-835863940
- linfa
- optics pull request november 2020
- got new life, and hopefully it will get merged in the future!
- new official maintainer yuhan!
- PR to linfa for the past few months
- different algorithms for k-nearest-neighbor
- ivano's PR
- cannot work on it right now
- plan to work on it
- PoC of how it can be effective
- if anyone wants to take it over please let him know
- Lorenz wants to find all people who have access if they still need access
- 9 people in the access group, so it might be time to clean up
- Rust Cross-Team Collaboration Fun Times (CTCFT)
- https://rust-ctcft.github.io/ctcft/welcome.html
- last meeting was June 21 2021 here
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksSuXNmGZNA
- basically a meta-group for support for Working/Interest Groups
- Using RustML IG (interest Group) as an example group of their experiences
- should present in July meeting (around the 21st)
- book chapter for logistic regression
- "definitely" done by next meeting
- some code for the example
- RustConf
- Call for papers ends 11 July 2021
- Conference is 14 September 2021
- we should totally do something!
- tutorial with data science using Rust
- https://rustconf.com/
- david
- new here! looking to help contribute to linfa
- interesting talk about a new feature learning technique
- wants to eventually use Rust to redo a university project but needs to work his way there with Rust and ML
- looking for a good getting started issue
## Actions

- lorenz contact linfa admins to clean that up
- leave 3 or 4 people who have admin access just in case so we have coverage
- chris work on RustML book chapter
- Ricky post Niko's question
- Ricky doc RustConf talk ideas