[Chennaipy] Minutes of July 22, ChennaiPy meetup

[Ashok Govindarajan]

Dear All,

Please find below the minutes of the ChennaiPy meetup on July 22.
Sorry for the delay in sending this.

It was a hot afternoon on July 22/2017.
The mind was wrestling between wanting to listen  to some good talks in
ChennaiPy and sleeping at home in the A/C. The answer was obvious!

But the electricity department had other plans and ensured that I attended
the
ChennaiPy meetup and here am I writing the MoM for the same. :)

The session began with Vijay setting the context about what to expect from a
meetup. It is useful that he goes through this regularly.
It gives a sense of what one needs to do the during a meetup to gain the
maximum
from this event. Thanks Vijay, for this.


It was followed by *Suresh VV who gave a talk on the  Hypothesis package in
Python*.
He introduced us to the problem of Fox-hen-grain.

You can read about the same here:
https://sureshvv.wordpress.com/2017/06/10/solving-the-
fox-hen-grain-puzzle-using-hypothesis/

He also spoke about the *Hypotheis package's* ability to break the code and
test the code's edge and corner cases.


*Naren on Coding  standards*

He primarily emphasized on good coding standards and spoke about some
details related to variables, functions, loop/indentation and error
handling.

Some salient points include :

1) Dont use the "temp" variable --> use meaningful variable names
2) Ensure that a function should have only one responsibility
3)Restrict loop nesting to maximum 3 levels.

His talk is available at :
http://www.dudewho.codes/assets/pdfs/writeCodeForHumans.pdf

*Talk by people from Enability team:*

“Enability Foundation for Rehabilitation” is a not for profit (Section 8)
company that focuses on delivering assistive technology solutions to the
marginalized and disadvantaged sections of society

You can get more details about what they do here: http://enability.in/#/

They were looking out for programmers/analysts both part-time and full time
to bring their initiatives to fruition.


*Networking tea break*


*NLP, Chatbox talk by Prabhakaran Kumaresshan*

Prabhakaran is an Machine learning engineer working in TCS.
He spoke about chatbots and how to build chatbots using slack.
Currently it is messaging apps are being used more than social networks.

The talk was interactive and discussion were on the lines of
how much data google has about all of us and how it is being used.
Their prediction algos are very sophisticated that there progress in areas
like deep learning are much ahead of others.

His talk is available at:

https://github.com/nixphix/meetup-chennaipy-jul2017-slackbot-stanfordnlp


*Lighning talks*

spacy.io  - Krishna Sangeeth introduced the audience to this site that
talks about NLP. People working/interested in this may want to take a look
at this.

Gaurav spoke about *Documentation Vs Stack overflow*
Good practise to look at documentation instead of heading to stack over
flow at the first step itself.
Showed a reference to a good doc site for reference : http://devdocs.io/

Shrayas  Extended Gaurav’s talk

Arun ram from Infosys   : Spoke about Haskell testing
http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/testing-and-quality-assurance.html

*Group Photo*

The session ended with a group photo, as usual.

Rgds,
Ashok
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