Recently I received two mails from events-europe@wolfram.com each one in french. I do not remember setting such preferences anywhere.

They're just priming you for when they come out with the all new, ground breaking, gonna change something some day somehow WLT (Wolfram Language Translator).

It's $50 per paragraph of translated text

After reading various licenses and such, I'm starting to have a feeling that there's no practical way one could do cloud-based training of neural networks on home edition license. I think it's a pity considering the neural networks toolkit on Mma is pretty accessible in comparison to many alternatives.

Waiting for support to say something on this. Response times haven't been the best over past week...

Can the new system model features be used to construct multi-step data models without needing System Modeler

Something along the lines of a Markov process but with calculations/simulations at each step?

Is it acceptable for me to include a function from an answer inside a package, provided I give credit?

@KraZug Yes, attribution in your package should be sufficient.

But it would be polite to ask the user first before including the function.

@KraZug It is not only acceptable -- it is explicitly allowed by the license that governs all the content in all the answers on Stack Exchange.

has anyone gotten a response from the blockchain functions. BlockchainData[] It keeps giving me an HTML error

Thanks @J.M. and @C.E.

Is it appropriate to ask additional questions in order to show off different things that my package can do?

@KraZug My personal feelings on this is that you can write multiple self-answered questions, but you want to be sure that they are not dupes of each other. If the only difference among the multiple questions is a changed parameter or two, I would consider that bad form.

@KraZug I would not do that. Put your package code and the documentation for on GitHub. There, everything is at the same place and you can receive bug-reports or create even a Wiki for your package. After that, you still can ask a question on SE and provide an answer yourself where you point to the GitHub repository.

@J.M., yes, definitely I would make sure they are different questions.

@halirutan, it is already on github. I have the initial question that I asked in the first place, that I self-answered after getting no response (and realising I knew how to do it) that led to the package.

@KraZug I am incredibly guilty of asking questions after developing things and then just doing a Q/A, rather than being smart and doing it before-hand. As long as you can remember the question you were trying to solve initially I tend to think it's okay if not the best form.

One other note, generally one wants to put packed paclet files in a release, rather than in the repo as you have here

@b3m2a1, I can change that if that is not correct. I'm new to using github

is there a way to link to the most recent release .paclet file?

Also I really should change my screenname on here away to my actual identity, given that I have on the github

@KraZug I'm not sure that really matters. Unfortunately that one's a bit harder. But if you always want the latest one, my suggestion is instead to build a paclet site repository and store all your paclets there. Otherwise to always get the latest release you need to hook into GitHub's API as I did here.

The paclet site system actually works quite smoothly. I mirrored my cloud paclet server onto a GitHub server if you want an example of how these can work.

You should link to your GitHub in your profile though. Makes it easier to find your stuff.

Linked my profile.

(with appropriate changes for me and my package name)

@JasonB. dunno if you're at will to answer this, but are things pretty hectic at WRI right now? I've floated a bunch of trial balloons on Wolfram Community to try to see how progress is coming on things and have gotten radio-silence in response. I haven't actually followed up explicitly with support (that's my next step), but it made me think that developer time might be at a premium right now chasing down all the new 11.3 bugs.

@KraZug ah yeah the README's wrong there. It should actually look like:

PacletInstall["ServiceConnection_NASA",
 "Site" ->
  "http://raw.githubusercontent.com/b3m2a1/GitHubServer/master"
 ]

The "master" is important

If you don't have a "PacletSite.mz" it won't work at all though

@b3m2a1 hmmm "0 replies"..

I can't really say why the relevant parties haven't answered. Here on the alpha floor it doesn't seem especially hectic

Okay. It's mostly been poking people about cloud stuff anyway. I'll poke support if no responses come out.

What does the PacletSite.mz need to contain?

@KraZug this has it: mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/131101/…

If you want I also have a toolchain for doing this kind of stuff but I think it's probably overkill for what you want to do.

Thanks. Yes, I just have one package, at least at the moment

One nice thing about paclets: you can separate documentation from implementation. Really cuts down on bloat-size.