SVFIG Monthly Meeting

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08:00 --- BREAKFAST
We will be meeting up for breakfast at the on-campus Starbucks.

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     Andreas will have copies of "Starting Forth" and the 'Book of the Month' for sale at the meeting for $10 a copy. Contact Andreas by email if you can't wait:
     andreas.wagner@lowfatcomputing.org

     The new gallery is here:
http://www.forthlibrary.net/

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      It's been working lately,   we hope we'll be streaming the meeting to YouTube. The stream can be found at our YouTube account:
https://www.youtube.com/c/SiliconValleyForthInterestGroup/

      Please subscribe to the YouTube channel!

      Many previous meetings are available as well!

You can find more by using YouTube's search function:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=svfig

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SVFIG meets on the fourth Saturday of each month with the following exceptions:
     November's and December's meetings are on the third Saturday of the month.
     The Maker Faire will serve instead of the May meeting.

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If you are planning to attend in person or by YouTube, please go to Meetup.com and register for the meeting.
   http://www.meetup.com/SV-FIG/

There is no need to register if you are not attending.

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NOTES FOR FIRST-TIME ATTENDEES:

1) Print yourself a map so you can find the building easily. If you get lost, call Kevin Appert at 650.678.0532
2) The SVFIG web site has additional online information including maps:
http://www.forth.org/svfig/next.html
3) Suggested parking is in the small lot near the intersection of Santa Teresa St and Lomita Dr. There is no need to feed any meters on the weekends. Do NOT park in any place marked with 24/7 restrictions! Most other places are okay on Saturdays. Read the signs!

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This page is for the schedule and coming attractions only, other details will be in the email announcement and online here: http://www.forth.org/svfig/next.html
Links, PowerPoint, PDFs, and source files from previous months' meeting are on the SVFIG website. All this and video from Forth Days are on the SVFIG website too! Several years of SVFIG meetings are on YouTube for your Forthish pleasure.

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Meeting Schedule

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10:00 --- Coffee and a Chat
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Speakers' Schedule

SVFIG
28 Sep 2019
Fourth Saturday

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
We hope to devote the majority of this meeting to Don's robot, if there are working processor boards. Bring money!

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     The monthly SVFIG meeting is held on the Stanford University campus in The Peterson Building, Bldg. 550.
     The address is 416 Escondido Rd, but that area of the campus is closed to vehicles.
     The best place for drop-offs is the landmark "Fire Truck House" at 433 Santa Teresa St, (the real Fire Station is on Serra)

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     T Shirts? As of now, order them before the meeting from Andreas. He will bring them to the meeting or ship them to you.

     Bring your creative T-shirt ideas to the meeting and we'll talk about another round of shirts for Forth Day 2019!

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10:30 --- Code in Long-Noncoding RNA --- C.H. Ting
"The wall-to-wall pearls and necklaces I reported last time were due to corruption of a data file. I had done very extensive sanity checks on 5 large lncRNA databases, and the results look credible. I will summerize the pearls and necklaces found in these databases. All calculations were done in Python 3.7.4, using its very powerful string functions. I could have done all string operations in Forth, but Python code is much simpler and much shorter."

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11:30 --- Lunch
We'll have lunch at The Treehouse.
http://treehousestanford.com/

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13:15 --- Introductions, Rumors, Gossip, Announcements
We'll go around the room...

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13:40 --- More Robots --- Don Golding
There will be boards...
For details, see Don's email on the list. Did I mention... Bring money!
There will be about an hour of presentation followed by an hour of workshop.

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14:55 --- Break (or sometime somewhere in the middle of the afternoon)

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15:05 --- You guessed it ... I Like Big Robots and I Cannot Lie
Visit Questionable Content Webtoon on the interwebs for T-Shirt details.

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TBD --- Random Access, YouTube,
We'll fill in as necessary.

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16:00 --- CLEAN UP AND ADJOURN

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     We try to stick to the schedule. Remember that schedule slip is sometimes unavoidable. If a guy's on a roll, one wouldn't want to interrupt.

      Once in a while we shuffle things around, for whatever reason. It may be ill-considered, but it isn't malicious.

      If you're desperate to see a particular thing at a particular time please mention it and we'll try to accommodate you. If we get enough of this sort of request, we'll institute a system of graft and corruption in order to accomodate the well-healed among you.

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     The schedule above may be reformatted or line-justified but please transmit it verbatim and in its entirety or not at all. A link to this page is preferred.
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     No Newsgroup posts or other media distribution please! Contact me and we'll discuss it BEFORE you proceed.
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Coming Attractions:
     Dwight, when his hardware is working!
     Jay McKnight will tell us about Forth-based calibration tape production.
     Andrew Korsak says ..."Got an Rpi, put gforth in it, will write SW to grab and forward Doppler Radio Direction Finding bearings remotely.   Another RDF project in the works with ham buddies: TDOA network. Could be a future SV-FIG talk."

Future Thoughts: --- Chuck Moore at EuroForth 2018
     We'll turn off the YouTube stream and watch ... YouTube

> Euroforth 2018 was held on the outskirts of Edinburgh - at a venue in sight of the
>famous Forth Bridges (now 3 of them!). As this year is recognised as the
>50th Anniversary of Forth, Charles Moore was invited as Guest of Honour.
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> Chuck gave an after dinner speech - which has been captured on YouTube by
> Jaanus Poial.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpHdSpQJMW4
>

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      This page is produced by Kevin Appert, the SVFIG Program Chairman.
      This page is distinct from the SVFIG and FIG websites which are produced by the SVFIG Webmaster, Dave Jaffe. Comments and corrections are welcome.

Kevin's email: forther-at-Comcast-dot-net

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