Talk comments

Anonymous at 17:26 on 28 Jun 2015

The speaker needs to get his basic story straight. Inputs, outputs, hidden layers; they're not rocket science. However it seemed that he did not prepare the words and right imagery to explain his story. The whole talk was hard to follow and in the end the most interesting parts, like the weight calculation and back propagation, were totally skipped over. All we heard for the last 10 minutes was: "here's a 1.0 and here's a 0.5 and 0.25 is lower than 0.5." Yes we know, but how did those numbers get there?!

Another note: don't waste too much time talking about libfann. It's just a tool. Its applications in the practical world is more interesting.

Remove the whole Symphony helpers part. It was totally irrelevant. Thanks.

Anonymous at 17:16 on 28 Jun 2015

Great talk. Rather short. Information slightly dated and for beginners.

Please extend the talk to explore actual 2015 technologies like asynchronous PHP (handles more connections), multi-location data centers (active-active and active-passive), and shared file servers. Also would like to hear more about the "Alexa Top 500" stack solutions for caching, CDN-ing, dealing with server outages.

Anonymous at 17:08 on 28 Jun 2015

There was absolutely no need to explain the history of each of the HTTP/1 specs in detail. Not informative to the most of the attendees who aren't protocol engineers.

Please rewrite your talk to focus on the technical differences of the specs, and the practical tooling and solutions available for trying out & prepping our projects for HTTP/2.

Going through spec details (explaining 100-continue wtf rly) with 60 people in the room is a waste of the room.

Anonymous at 17:01 on 28 Jun 2015

We paid a lot of money for the conference tickets. This talk was 45 minutes of "how to install grunt packages" and was not in-depth as proclaimed. At all. The speaker even admitted he is absolutely not a frontender but considers himself a backender. Even so, at least he could share some personal learnings, but no, it was a Github screenshot slideshow.

This keynote made me realized that maintaining an open source project is not just hard work, it's incredibly hard work. It makes me respect all open source maintainers even more. Will definitely be trying even harder for open source contributions.

This talk was a great walkthrough for the js QA stack in combination with your CI. I didn't know half the tools that were mentioned, so definitely learned something. The only thing missing from this talk was a bit of overview at the end.

Interesting talk about the workings of your brain regarding problem solving. These are my favorite types of talks and it was very inspiring to hear how they recovered from the events that took place. This talk is a must watch for any developer!

The idea was interesting and original. I liked the concept but whenever we'd choose a "fight", it quickly showed the statement was inaccurate.
Still, there were some valid points made and it was a good experience.

Very inspiring talk, it's great to hear how other developers have gotten to where they are right now.

Nice to see some room for history near the end of this conference.

Good demo and interaction with the audience.