#1: First Meeting at Dogpatch Labs

Monday. January 25, 2016 - 2 mins

Happy to support the Machine Learning Meetup last night down in the Vaults #MLDublin @artucalvo @dogpatchlabs pic.twitter.com/V3YzZp0LaR

— @dogpatchlabs (@dogpatchlabs) January 26, 2016

The #MLDublin group had its first meeting in Dogpatch Labs on the 25^th of January. The organisers were suprised and pleased by the large number of interested people, and attendance was very strong.

Declan McKibben introduced the ADAPT Centre and Arturo Calvo Devesa was Master of Ceremonies for the night.

A photo posted by Alex O'Connor (@uberalex) on Jan 25, 2016 at 11:03am PST

Three talks surrounded by a networking session were arranged.

#MLDublin awesome talk by @uberalex at Machine Learning Dublin Meep up pic.twitter.com/Og1wrOxYrp

— Killian Levacher (@killianlevacher) January 25, 2016

• Alexander O"Connor spoke about Word Embeddings

A photo posted by Alex O'Connor (@uberalex) on Jan 25, 2016 at 11:03am PST

• Chris Hokamp spoke about Architecture for NLP with neural networks

A photo posted by Alex O'Connor (@uberalex) on Jan 25, 2016 at 11:23am PST

• Joachim Wagner spoke about the Importance of Optimising Meta-parameters in Machine Learning

See more at the #MLDublin Twitter Hashtag.