From cbc at unc.edu Mon Apr 1 14:23:32 2019 From: cbc at unc.edu (Calloway, Chris) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2019 18:23:32 +0000 Subject: [TriPython] Reminder: Raleigh Project Night Message-ID: Fun and games at Red Hat Annex Tuesday evening. No fooling. http://tripython.org/Members/kahowell/apr-19-rpn/ When: Tuesday, April 2, 6-9pm Where: Red Hat Annex, 190 E Davie St, Raleigh What: Raleigh Project Night meets on first Tuesdays. Have a project you want to show off, share, seek help with, or just get some work done surrounded by like-minded Python lovers? Join us for our monthly project night and do just that! Don't have something to work on? Just need some help with Python? Show up and enjoy the energy, sprint on an open source project, find something interesting to contribute to or be inspired by! The setting is informal and there is no schedule, so don't worry if you show up past the start time. Whether you are a Python newbie needing help or have an open source project you want to share, come hang out and hack. Park in the City Center deck behind Red Hat (the Red Hat elevator in the deck goes into the main Red Hat space, not the Annex). Bring your laptop. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 -------------- next part -------------- Fun and games at Red Hat Annex Tuesday evening. No fooling. [1]http://tripython.org/Members/kahowell/apr-19-rpn/ When: Tuesday, April 2, 6-9pm Where: Red Hat Annex, 190 E Davie St, Raleigh What: Raleigh Project Night meets on first Tuesdays. Have a project you want to show off, share, seek help with, or just get some work done surrounded by like-minded Python lovers? Join us for our monthly project night and do just that! Don't have something to work on? Just need some help with Python? Show up and enjoy the energy, sprint on an open source project, find something interesting to contribute to or be inspired by! The setting is informal and there is no schedule, so don't worry if you show up past the start time. Whether you are a Python newbie needing help or have an open source project you want to share, come hang out and hack. Park in the City Center deck behind Red Hat (the Red Hat elevator in the deck goes into the main Red Hat space, not the Annex). Bring your laptop. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 References Visible links 1. http://tripython.org/Members/kahowell/apr-19-rpn/ From cbc at unc.edu Tue Apr 2 12:22:23 2019 From: cbc at unc.edu (Calloway, Chris) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 16:22:23 +0000 Subject: [TriPython] Sport Analytics 101 Next WeeK Message-ID: I know some of you are interested in sports analytics. You may want to consider this lunchtime talk next week in Chapel Hill: https://www.meetup.com/Research-Triangle-Analysts/events/260257016 The host is the organizer of the sports analytics track at the primary annual conference for operations research. He knows his stuff. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 -------------- next part -------------- I know some of you are interested in sports analytics. You may want to consider this lunchtime talk next week in Chapel Hill: https://www.meetup.com/Research-Triangle-Analysts/events/260257016 The host is the organizer of the sports analytics track at the primary annual conference for operations research. He knows his stuff. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 From cbc at unc.edu Mon Apr 8 16:05:05 2019 From: cbc at unc.edu (Calloway, Chris) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 20:05:05 +0000 Subject: [TriPython] Chapel Hill Project Night Message-ID: The pizza has already been ordered: http://tripython.org/Members/cbc/apr-19-mtg When: Wednesday, April 10, 6-9pm Where: Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), Biltmore Conference Room, 5th Floor, Europa Center, Suite 590, 100 Europa Drive, Chapel Hill What: ???Chapel Hill Project Night meets on second Wednesdays. Have a project you want to show off, share, seek help with, or just get some work done surrounded by like-minded Python lovers? Join us for our monthly project night and do just that! Don't have something to work on? Just need some help with Python? Show up and enjoy the energy, sprint on an open source project, find something interesting to contribute to or be inspired by! The setting is informal and there is no schedule, so don't worry if you show up past the start time. Whether you are a Python newbie needing help or have an open source project you want to share, come hang out and hack. Plenty of free parking is available in the Europa Center parking deck. Bring your laptop.??? -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 -------------- next part -------------- The pizza has already been ordered: [1]http://tripython.org/Members/cbc/apr-19-mtg When: Wednesday, April 10, 6-9pm Where: Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), Biltmore Conference Room, 5th Floor, Europa Center, Suite 590, 100 Europa Drive, Chapel Hill What: """Chapel Hill Project Night meets on second Wednesdays. Have a project you want to show off, share, seek help with, or just get some work done surrounded by like-minded Python lovers? Join us for our monthly project night and do just that! Don't have something to work on? Just need some help with Python? Show up and enjoy the energy, sprint on an open source project, find something interesting to contribute to or be inspired by! The setting is informal and there is no schedule, so don't worry if you show up past the start time. Whether you are a Python newbie needing help or have an open source project you want to share, come hang out and hack. Plenty of free parking is available in the Europa Center parking deck. Bring your laptop.""" -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 References Visible links 1. http://tripython.org/Members/cbc/apr-19-mtg From cbc at unc.edu Mon Apr 8 16:23:18 2019 From: cbc at unc.edu (Calloway, Chris) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 20:23:18 +0000 Subject: [TriPython] TriPython April 2019 Meeting: Solving Pentomino Puzzles with Python Message-ID: <40CF189C-83C3-47FA-9CD7-E10A4A60D928@unc.edu> Rex regales us with Python Pentomino Puzzles: http://tripython.org/Members/cbc/apr-19-mtg When: Thursday, April 25, 7pm Where: Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), Biltmore Conference Room, 5th Floor, 100 Europa Drive, Suite 590, Chapel Hill What: ??? Rex Dwyer (https://github.com/rexdwyer) will present. 2018 marked the 60th anniversary of the first solution of a combinatorial puzzle by computer. In 1958, Dana Scott (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Scott), later a Turing Award winner for his work in denotational semantics, programmed the MANIAC computer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MANIAC_I) to find all solutions to a pentomino (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentomino) problem by backtracking. (I contacted Dana, one of my old professors, to take note of the anniversary in December 2018. He can still get very excited about pentominoes!) What are pentominoes, and why have they retained their appeal ever since they were first described by the famous puzzler Henry Dudeney (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Dudeney) in The Canterbury Puzzles #74 (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27635/27635-h/27635-h.htm) in 1907? Who is the High Priestess of Pentominoes? How many different ways can money be made from pentominos? What are some interesting open pentomino problems? What new puzzles can be devised? How can Python help us? Inquiring minds, including Dana Scott, Don Knuth, Solomon Golomb, Martin Gardner, and Arthur C. Clarke -- they all want (or wanted) to know. Rex Dwyer earned the PhD in Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University and the MS in Economics and Latin American Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. He has been working (mostly) in the biotech industry for two decades. Since 2017, he has worked as a Senior Data Scientist at Metabolon (https://www.metabolon.com/), the world's leader in advancing metabolomics for every area of life sciences research. In 2018, his predictive software drove the elucidation of more than 200 new compounds in mass spec data. Rex has been building and designing wooden puzzles for almost a decade. Extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration are also welcome and don't need to be pre-announced. Lightning talks are for you to "show and tell" something you've learned about Python recently, no matter how small. We all use Python, therefore, we are always learning something new about Python that we can tell others. Plenty of free parking is available in the RENCI parking deck. The meeting will be followed by our usual after-meeting at a nearby tavern for food and beverage. Come join us for a fun and informative evening. ??? -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 -------------- next part -------------- Rex regales us with Python Pentomino Puzzles: [1]http://tripython.org/Members/cbc/apr-19-mtg When: Thursday, April 25, 7pm Where: Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), Biltmore Conference Room, 5th Floor, 100 Europa Drive, Suite 590, Chapel Hill What: """ Rex Dwyer ([2]https://github.com/rexdwyer) will present. 2018 marked the 60th anniversary of the first solution of a combinatorial puzzle by computer. In 1958, Dana Scott ([3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Scott), later a Turing Award winner for his work in denotational semantics, programmed the MANIAC computer ([4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MANIAC_I) to find all solutions to a pentomino ([5]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentomino) problem by backtracking. (I contacted Dana, one of my old professors, to take note of the anniversary in December 2018. He can still get very excited about pentominoes!) What are pentominoes, and why have they retained their appeal ever since they were first described by the famous puzzler Henry Dudeney ([6]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Dudeney) in The Canterbury Puzzles #74 ([7]http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27635/27635-h/27635-h.htm) in 1907? Who is the High Priestess of Pentominoes? How many different ways can money be made from pentominos? What are some interesting open pentomino problems? What new puzzles can be devised? How can Python help us? Inquiring minds, including Dana Scott, Don Knuth, Solomon Golomb, Martin Gardner, and Arthur C. Clarke -- they all want (or wanted) to know. Rex Dwyer earned the PhD in Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University and the MS in Economics and Latin American Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. He has been working (mostly) in the biotech industry for two decades. Since 2017, he has worked as a Senior Data Scientist at Metabolon ([8]https://www.metabolon.com/), the world's leader in advancing metabolomics for every area of life sciences research. In 2018, his predictive software drove the elucidation of more than 200 new compounds in mass spec data. Rex has been building and designing wooden puzzles for almost a decade. Extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration are also welcome and don't need to be pre-announced. Lightning talks are for you to "show and tell" something you've learned about Python recently, no matter how small. We all use Python, therefore, we are always learning something new about Python that we can tell others. Plenty of free parking is available in the RENCI parking deck. The meeting will be followed by our usual after-meeting at a nearby tavern for food and beverage. Come join us for a fun and informative evening. """ -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 References Visible links 1. http://tripython.org/Members/cbc/apr-19-mtg 2. https://github.com/rexdwyer https://github.com/rexdwyer 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Scott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Scott 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MANIAC_I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MANIAC_I 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentomino https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentomino 6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Dudeney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Dudeney 7. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27635/27635-h/27635-h.htm http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27635/27635-h/27635-h.htm 8. https://www.metabolon.com/ https://www.metabolon.com/ From thomson at neuro.duke.edu Mon Apr 15 09:57:32 2019 From: thomson at neuro.duke.edu (Eric Thomson) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 13:57:32 +0000 Subject: [TriPython] Durham Project Night Tonight 6pm @Caktus In-Reply-To: References: , , , , , Message-ID: Just a reminder that tonight is Project Night in Durham. If you are an absolute beginner just getting started, or have a project well underway you want to tinker with, all are welcome. The setting is informal and there is no set schedule, so folks are welcome to come at any point during the evening (at about 7PM we typically introduce ourselves and what we are working on). Hope to see you there! Thanks, as always, to Caktus for providing the meeting space and pizza. Details: When: Monday, April 15, 6-9pm Where: Caktus Group Tech Space, 108 Morris St., Durham What: Join us for our monthly project night to tinker, discuss all things Python. If you don't have something specific you are working on, that's fine. If you just need help getting started with Python, bring your laptop and we will help. If you are a veteran programmer, come on by for code and pizza. It's an informal meetup where people work on projects, talk about programming, and give and receive tips on all things Python. From ben at wiphone.io Sun Apr 14 12:15:25 2019 From: ben at wiphone.io (Ben Wilson) Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2019 09:15:25 -0700 Subject: [TriPython] WiPhone, a phone you can program in Python In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hey all... I'm making a VoIP mobile phone that runs Python apps. The firmware will be open. Wanted to share and get the word out. I wanted a phone that lets hackers do what they want (instead of trapping you in a walled garden, huge IDE, non-serviceable design, etc.). The hardware is also meant to be easily expandable: the back of the phone is a PCB that can be swapped out for custom modules. Sort of like project Ara, except it's just a PCB. any hobby-level electrical designer should be able to make their own custom module. Kickstarter link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2103809433/wiphone-a-phone-for-hackers-and-makers?ref=1jz5jk recent Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/bagyxv/wiphone_a_phone_you_can_program_in_python/project build logs: https://hackaday.io/project/159811-esp32-wiphone Happy to answer questions here or on Reddit. -Ben -------------- next part -------------- Hey all... I'm making a VoIP mobile phone that runs Python apps. The firmware will be open. Wanted to share and get the word out. I wanted a phone that lets hackers do what they want (instead of trapping you in a walled garden, huge IDE, non-serviceable design, etc.). The hardware is also meant to be easily expandable: the back of the phone is a PCB that can be swapped out for custom modules. Sort of like project Ara, except it's just a PCB. any hobby-level electrical designer should be able to make their own custom module. Kickstarter link: [1]https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2103809433/wiphone-a-phone-for-hackers-and-makers?ref=1jz5jk recent Reddit discussion: [2]https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/bagyxv/wiphone_a_phone_you_can_program_in_python/project build logs: [3]https://hackaday.io/project/159811-esp32-wiphone Happy to answer questions here or on Reddit. -Ben References Visible links 1. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2103809433/wiphone-a-phone-for-hackers-and-makers/ 2. https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/bagyxv/wiphone_a_phone_you_can_program_in_python/project 3. https://hackaday.io/project/159811-esp32-wiphone From cbc at unc.edu Wed Apr 17 13:02:24 2019 From: cbc at unc.edu (Calloway, Chris) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 17:02:24 +0000 Subject: [TriPython] Senior Research DevOps Engineer at RENCI Message-ID: <6463A0DD-CE15-415E-BBB9-448174A1CA63@unc.edu> http://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/159991 -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 -------------- next part -------------- http://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/159991 -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 From cbc at unc.edu Mon Apr 22 11:32:15 2019 From: cbc at unc.edu (Calloway, Chris) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 15:32:15 +0000 Subject: [TriPython] Reminder: TriPython April 2019 Meeting: Solving Pentomino Puzzles with Python Message-ID: Your reminder that Rex Dwyer will be speaking to us this Thursday about his work with Python and pentominos which includes collaborating with pioneering Turing Award winner Dana Scott. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 ?On 4/8/19, 4:23 PM, "TriZPUG on behalf of Calloway, Chris" wrote: Rex regales us with Python Pentomino Puzzles: http://tripython.org/Members/cbc/apr-19-mtg When: Thursday, April 25, 7pm Where: Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), Biltmore Conference Room, 5th Floor, 100 Europa Drive, Suite 590, Chapel Hill What: ??? Rex Dwyer (https://github.com/rexdwyer) will present. 2018 marked the 60th anniversary of the first solution of a combinatorial puzzle by computer. In 1958, Dana Scott (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Scott), later a Turing Award winner for his work in denotational semantics, programmed the MANIAC computer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MANIAC_I) to find all solutions to a pentomino (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentomino) problem by backtracking. (I contacted Dana, one of my old professors, to take note of the anniversary in December 2018. He can still get very excited about pentominoes!) What are pentominoes, and why have they retained their appeal ever since they were first described by the famous puzzler Henry Dudeney (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Dudeney) in The Canterbury Puzzles #74 (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27635/27635-h/27635-h.htm) in 1907? Who is the High Priestess of Pentominoes? How many different ways can money be made from pentominos? What are some interesting open pentomino problems? What new puzzles can be devised? How can Python help us? Inquiring minds, including Dana Scott, Don Knuth, Solomon Golomb, Martin Gardner, and Arthur C. Clarke -- they all want (or wanted) to know. Rex Dwyer earned the PhD in Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University and the MS in Economics and Latin American Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. He has been working (mostly) in the biotech industry for two decades. Since 2017, he has worked as a Senior Data Scientist at Metabolon (https://www.metabolon.com/), the world's leader in advancing metabolomics for every area of life sciences research. In 2018, his predictive software drove the elucidation of more than 200 new compounds in mass spec data. Rex has been building and designing wooden puzzles for almost a decade. Extemporaneous "lightning talks" of 5-10 minute duration are also welcome and don't need to be pre-announced. Lightning talks are for you to "show and tell" something you've learned about Python recently, no matter how small. We all use Python, therefore, we are always learning something new about Python that we can tell others. Plenty of free parking is available in the RENCI parking deck. The meeting will be followed by our usual after-meeting at a nearby tavern for food and beverage. Come join us for a fun and informative evening. ??? -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway Applications Analyst University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute (919) 599-3530 From rexadwyer at gmail.com Thu Apr 25 11:03:39 2019 From: rexadwyer at gmail.com (Rex Dwyer) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 11:03:39 -0400 Subject: [TriPython] Door prizes tonight! Message-ID: There will be exciting door prizes for the first 10 attendees tonight. In additions, there are two more even more exciting door prizes for the first two attendees to respond to this e-mail. Reply to me at rex.dwyer at pobox.com. -- Rex A. Dwyer -------------- next part -------------- There will be exciting door prizes for the first 10 attendees tonight. In additions, there are two more even more exciting door prizes for the first two attendees to respond to this e-mail.** Reply to me at [1]rex.dwyer at pobox.com. -- Rex A. Dwyer References Visible links 1. mailto:rex.dwyer at pobox.com From rexadwyer at gmail.com Thu Apr 25 13:55:59 2019 From: rexadwyer at gmail.com (Rex Dwyer) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 13:55:59 -0400 Subject: [TriPython] Door prizes claimed! Message-ID: -- Rex A. Dwyer -------------- next part -------------- -- Rex A. Dwyer