From grace at pybay.com Mon Dec 2 16:22:15 2019 From: grace at pybay.com (Grace Law) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 13:22:15 -0800 Subject: [Baypiggies] Please join 250 Pythonistas for our Holiday Message-ID: Hi Baypiggies, Hope your holiday season has gotten off to a great start. If you are free this Wed night *(Dec 4)*, please join 250 Pythonistas in SF for our 5th Annual Holiday Party ! We will have a panel discussion with Brett Slatkin, Glyph Lefkowitz, Lisa Roach, Leigh Johnson, Mahmoud Hashemi on *Best Practices in Scaling Python Code Base*. As if that's not enough, we will also have lightning talks, *amazing food* (you won't find pizza this night), wine, beer, live music and raffle. Please register now for this always sold out event: https://ti.to/sf-python/bay-area-holiday-party-2019. Ticket is $20 each. We are asking for donations to help cover the operating and admin cost of producing 20 events year round. However, if you need help securing your ticket, please write to grace at pybay.com before by 11p on Dec 3. I will be happy to get you covered if tickets are still available. If you'd like to volunteer and help with check in, contact Connor Cantrell at connorjcantrell at gmail.com Thanks again for making the Python community awesome and hope to see you next Wed! Cheers, Grace (on behalf of the amazing SF Python organizing team) Event highlights *LIGHTNING TALKS*?Amazing Interactive Visualizations with Python + Bokeh - Christopher Brousseau ?Python in the Newsroom: How Python Tools Are Enabling Better Data Journalism - Ben Hancock ?ML-based code completion tools for Python programmers - Skip Everling ?Using Social Networks to address the Climate Emergency - Sumeet Sandhu ?Several people are typing - Jenna Quindica ?Cython for All with GitHub Actions - Grant Jenks ?Parquet or PyTest - Santona Tuli *PANEL on best practices in Scaling Python Code Base* ?Panelists: Brett Slatkin, Lisa Roach, Mahmoud Hashemi, Leigh Johnson, Glyph Lefkowitz Bios: Brett Slatkin is a principal software engineer at Google, where he works on survey and experimentation infrastructure. He is the author of the book Effective Python. Find him online at https://onebigfluke.com and @haxor Glyph is the founder of the Twisted project, a blogger at glyph.twistedmatrix.com, a contributor to various Python infrastructure open source projects, and a software engineer at Pilot.com Lisa Roach is a Production Engineer at Facebook and a CPython Core Developer. She is passionate about Python, and has spent time using Python on networking and security teams, and now focuses on improving the language itself and enabling other users of it. Mahmoud Hashemi is a backend engineer and architect, open-source library maintainer, PSF Fellow, and Wikipedian, with ten years of experience building enterprise software. He authored O'Reilly's Enterprise Software with Python, cohosts the Pyninsula Python meetup group in the San Francisco Bay Area, and semi-regularly delivers talks on software architecture. Leigh Johnson is a Staff Software Engineer at Slack, where she builds and operates petabyte-scaledatastore and cache platforms. She learned a thing or two about scaling open source Python codebases and communities via her contributions to Ansible Core, AWX (Ansible Tower), and TensorFlow. Leigh is recognized as a Google Developer Expert in Machine Learning for her work with computer vision and neural networks on small devices, like Raspberry Pi. *LIVE MUSIC* We are excited for the return of Noa Levy, a jazz-rock fusion vocalists. She has performed for SF JAZZ and local jazz clubs such as Cafe Claude and Zingari Ristorante & Jazz Club More info about the event logistics at the registration link: https://ti.to/sf-python/bay-area-holiday-party-2019 **This event is produced by* SF Python, a volunteer-run organization aiming to foster the Python Community in the Bay Area. A portion of the food and drinks is through the generosity of our venue host Yelp, the rest is funded by your donations. Yelp sees 89 million mobile users and 79 million desktop users every month. Keeping everything running smoothly requires the best and brightest in the industry. Their engineers come from diverse technical backgrounds and value digital craftsmanship, open-source, and creative problem-solving. They write tests, review code, and push multiple times a day. Come out and talk to them. Grace Law PyBay Conference Chair and SF Python Organizer 415-323-0388 / grace at pybay.com SF Python is a volunteer-run organization aiming to foster the Python Community in the Bay Area. We produce ~20 educational events a year including PyBay , the Regional Python Conference in SF ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bikle101 at gmail.com Fri Dec 6 16:05:38 2019 From: bikle101 at gmail.com (Dan Bikle) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 13:05:38 -0800 Subject: [Baypiggies] Tomorrow, Dec 7, Symbolic Mathematics with SageMath. Message-ID: Hello World, I invite you to a free class: Intro to Symbolic Mathematics with SageMath. Time: Tomorrow, Saturday, 2019-12-07 1pm to 3pm Location: Palo Alto Mitchell Park Library [ 2nd floor conf-room ]. Cost: $0.00 Presentation Slides: http://math101.us Download: https://www.sagemath.org/download.html The skill of practicing Symbolic Mathematics usually starts in High School and continues through college. If your career has weakened your ability to do Math, we have software, SageMath, which offers two useful features: It can help you learn Mathematics and it can help you apply Mathematics. Like Python, SageMath is Open-Source software. Also, much of SageMath is written in Python. Finally, it is easy to blend SageMath syntax with Python syntax. Let's learn SageMath together! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From glen at glenjarvis.com Mon Dec 16 15:57:35 2019 From: glen at glenjarvis.com (Glen Jarvis) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 20:57:35 +0000 Subject: [Baypiggies] This week: Poodle, the Python extension for automated programming Message-ID: Our final Bay Area Python Interest Group (BAyPIGgies) is this Thursday. Please update your RSVP here: RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/BAyPIGgies/events/265152603/ Abstract ======= Computer code generation has always been the Holy Grail of computer science and every software developer has at least once wondered if computers will one day be able to write programs themselves. Many believe that we are decades-away from the time when programs may start to outsmart their creators, but today we are arguing that the tipping point is near, and Poodle, the Python extension for automated programming presented in this talk is already bringing exponential productivity benefits to software development. After this talk you will be able to create software with the complexity that you previously thought impossible to build. Biography ======== Vlad Goloshuk is the Founder at CriticalHop, the startup that uses ?impossible automation? to solve IT infrastructure challenges. Vlad is AI evangelist and the author of Mastercard?s blockchain technology to process refunds. He is a former Network Infrastructure consultant at UniCredit Bank, Bank of Ireland, and Irish Government. Former Sr. Network Analyst at MasterCard. The recent Vlad?s initiatives included applying automated programming in Python to optimize data-driven sales development processes with internally developed open source tool, called Poodle https://github.com/criticalhop/poodle RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/BAyPIGgies/events/265152603/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bikle101 at gmail.com Thu Dec 19 18:25:21 2019 From: bikle101 at gmail.com (Dan Bikle) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 15:25:21 -0800 Subject: [Baypiggies] Python + Poodle [Free Training Dec22 1pm Palo Alto] Message-ID: 2019-12-22 1pm to 3pm Palo Alto Mitchell Park Library 2nd Floor Conference Room https://www.eventbrite.com/e/python-poodle-tickets-86870665499 We have room for 7 students. Subject: Python + Poodle Higher Level languages increase our leverage when we act to harness technology to solve problems. PDDL is a high level language to describe AI Planning Domains. Poodle is the Python-to-PDDL compiler and automated programming framework. At this event I work with you to setup a Poodle training environment on your laptop. Then, we work together to teach each other these technologies: - Docker - Python - Poodle - PDDL - AI Planning Additionally, we share the goal of building a community which gains knowledge through e-mail and future meetings. 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And during this process you can enhance your knowledge of Mathematics. Additionally, we share the goal of building a community which gains knowledge through e-mail and future meetings. If you have questions, e-me: bikle101 at gmail.com Cost is $0.00 + brain_power*2 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: