At Knewton, we'll cover expenses for anything that might be useful for getting your work done. In my case, that means attending SciPy 2012 last week and learnin

At Knewton, we'll cover expenses for anything that might be useful for getting your work done. In my case, that means attending SciPy 2012 last week and learning about tools (scikit-learn, Cython, Numpy/Scipy) that will help me prototype and explore various models, as well as speed up our production Python code. That's just one example, of course. Our head of infrastructure (@dzwieback) attends various systems engineering and DevOps conferences, and other members of the adaptive learning team attend data conferences (Strata, for example).