Hacksession 2024-09-20

[mastoffel]

checklist:

• [x] Create a new issue with the date of the hack session and copy this checklist. This issue will document the full session. Assing issue to the person organising that month.
• [x] Check Turing meeting room is booked (should be Cipher).
• [x] Check that the Slack workflow for advertising is doing its thing (reminders should go out a week before and the day of)
• [x] Run the event
• [x] Collect contributions to the session in the issue relevant to the session.
• [x] Update the main page with new contributions https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/research-engineering-group/wiki/Open-source-hacksessions

[mastoffel]

Nathan: made a pr to deepmind's pix library! https://github.com/google-deepmind/dm_pix/pull/103 Penny: I attempted to start looking into making https://github.com/dan-t/cabal-lenses compatible with Cabal 3.14. Update (penny): I got this package plus two reverse-deps to work with Cabal 3.14 :smile: I'm quite pleased! https://github.com/dan-t/cabal-lenses/pull/10 https://github.com/dan-t/cabal-cargs/pull/8 https://github.com/dan-t/cabal-bounds/pull/17 Markus: I first ambitiously tried to fix an issue with doing matrix products of matrices with abstract types in Julia. I quickly found myself knee deep in C code for Julia’s type inference machinery, got cold feet, and bailed. I then put in a small PR for a tiny Julia issue instead: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/55825 (edited) Martin: Worked on rptR issues: one, two, three