2022-11-18

Dynamic notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1paudKBwATvIqUoUygFCTdEYIG03uTAqPxr3-TB3fwHg/edit?usp=sharing

What: AI and IO technical group meeting 

When: 2022-11-18, 10am

How: online via Zoom http://meet.nbis.se/aiaio

Wiki space: https://wabi-wiki.scilifelab.se/x/xIMMC

Present: Olga, Bengt, Julie, Eva, Lars, Nima, Paul, Sergiu

Agenda 

10:00 - 10.10 

Welcome (Olga & Bengt)

10.10 - 10:45 

General discussion (all) 

• How to log TC time. This might be updated once LTS move to RedMine/URDR time-logging, but the current recommendation from support managers are
• SMS: “NBIS General” -> “Internal NBIS”
• LTS: “Community”
• How to make the meetings count? (sharing views & brainstorming)
• Study circles (see below)
• Specific needs in support projects
• Feedback sessions on projects (on need basis?)
• “Share our failures”
• Seminar series
• Share info about interesting, relevant conference or course
• Decision: Create 
• http://www.icmlt.org/index.html (not sure if any good?)
• Decision: Balance between diff things above – flexibility
• Contact surface to external/SLL platforms/efforts, e.g., SLL AI group?

• Is anyone interested in a study circle as part of the tech group? If so, what topics? 
  • e.g. Julia programming language (olga)
    • Possible Topics: 'Classical' ML, BioJulia (that covers a lot of different things), Visualisations (grammar of graphics?)
    • https://juliadatascience.io/juliadatascience.pdf
    • There might be sysdev experts that can do tutorials on julia if needed (needs checking)
    • Decision: Everyone looks at the book (above), communicate on slack and then evaluate at the meeting
  • Discuss large data techniques we could benefit from, e.g. Duckdb / apache arrow (maybe this is mostly relevant in the single-cell context, or maybe with image data also?)
• Suggestions of speakers for the seminar series
  • DDLS fellows
  • Internal from TC
  • Topic/article suggestions
    • https://wabi-wiki.scilifelab.se/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=91816023
• Shall we merge slack channels: #ai-ml and #tech-grp-ai-and-io
  • Decision: Yes. Announce merge  in both channels
• How often shall we meet?
  • Decision: start monthly 
• Any other business?
  • None