Its a work day for me, but I'll probably leave a bit early and drive up from San Diego on the evening of Tuesday June 21. Send me a PM to trade contact info if you want to carpool :-)
When I came last week (hadn't checked here a while) and didn't see anybody there, I though the regular meeting was defunct. I'm glad to see it's still going. See y'all this evening!
Matthew, I read this and thought of you: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028184.300-lab-yeast-make-evolutionary-leap-to-multicellularity.html
"I bet that yeast, having once been multicellular, never lost it completely," says Neil Blackstone, an evolutionary biologist at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. "I don't think if you took something that had never been multicellular you would get it so quickly." That gives me slight hope to the credence of my theory ^_^ as the "first movers" in that the first single cellular life which grouped into multicellularity life would experience evolution that allowed made them more friendly to multicellular life, so that even when split up they have systems that encourage reunification. As a whole however it does makes my mini theory less plausible, thanks for the help in Changing my Mind :)
There are some adjustments to the weekly meetups in Irvine:
The meetup for June 15th is cancelled because the regular attendees are on vacation that week.
The following week, the meetup will be Tuesday June 21, instead of Wednesday. We expect special guests Alicorn and Yvain to attend.
Normal weekly meetups on Wednesdays will resume on June 29th.
All meetups are from 6:00 to 8:001 at the outdoor food court near the UCI Campus, at Campus and Bridge. Look for me with sign showing a diagram of a naive neural classifier of bleggs and rubes.
To see all scheduled meetups in Southern California, see the calendar. To get announcements by email, join the email group.
1. The end time is very soft. Once as we got up to leave around 11:20, someone remarked "This is how we do 6 to 8."