00:15:40 Derek Sollberger: I tend to measure performance when trying to solve Advent of Code puzzles
00:16:45 Jeffrey Stevens: Do we need to add the chat start?
00:16:51 Olivier Leroy: start
00:21:07 Derek Sollberger: My students and I are currently looking at data about autonomous cars, so the goals of optimizing for smaller computers are indeed incoming
00:21:23 Olivier Leroy: Reacted to "My students and I ar..." with 👍
00:22:11 Steffi LaZerte (she/her): Reacted to "I tend to measure pe..." with 😁
00:28:27 Steffi LaZerte (she/her): I don't think I ever realized that GC was garbage collection and that that could contribute to taking up so much time!
00:28:47 Steffi LaZerte (she/her): In other examples ;)
00:39:02 Derek Sollberger: math aside: the square root algorithms date back to the Babylonians :-)
00:41:03 Steffi LaZerte (she/her): Reacted to "math aside: the squa..." with 😀
01:02:23 Derek Sollberger: The `e1071` R package of miscellaneous functions is also useful for statistical work
01:07:04 Jeffrey Stevens: Gotta go. See you all for the last week next week!
01:08:10 Olivier Leroy: end