From brianhray at gmail.com Tue May 12 23:47:21 2015 From: brianhray at gmail.com (Brian Ray) Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 16:47:21 -0500 Subject: [ChiPy-announce] [ANN] ULS Most amazing battle of the century, RSVP now Message-ID: Forget Mayfield vs Pacquiao, it was fixed. This will be the Ultimate Battle of the century. RSVP NOW before it gets *Sold Out* on Meetup.com or Chipy.org. Thank you Computer Futures, Braintree, Github, and Imaginary Landscape. Cash prices $200+ for first place... Pizza, Beer... fun. Invite everyone. Current entries (add yours here ): - *R and Python for regression* (0:05:00 Minutes) By: Jerry Dumblauskas Let's compare our favorite language to an 'upstart' highly focused statistical language. - *QML vs. Python* (0:05:00 Minutes) By: Patrick K. O'Brien If you think Python is Pythonic, wait until you see QML from the point of view of an experienced Python developer. QML is the Qt Meta Language or Qt Modeling Language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QML - *Conway's Game of Life: Programming in a non-language* (0:05:00 Minutes) By: The Game of Life is Turing Complete. That means it can (theoretically) calculate anything that any computer can calculate. What does this mean in practice and how can you program a calculation when the total syntax is just flipping cells in a 2D bit field? - *Swift* By: Feihong Hsu - *as former C# developer the lessons I learned to become pythonic * By: JC LatinoTV language comparison in 5 minutes - *Go: Concurrency is Built In* (0:05:00 Minutes) By: Chris Foresman Discussing the pros and cons of Golang from a Python user's perspective, particularly focusing on its built-in support for concurrency and the advantages over asyncio. - *Erlang* By: Garrett Smith ULS Erlang entry - *Postscript. Yes, it's a programming language* (0:05:00 Minutes) By: Ken Schutte I'll describe Postscript - a interpreted, stack-based "page description language" used to produce vector graphics and documents. - *Is True true? : A mini-venture into Python & Ruby truth testing* (0:05:00 Minutes) By: Lorena Nicole Review of truth testing in Python and Ruby. If "Explicit is better than Implicit" then why does Python decide that values like empty sequences are "falsey"? How is it that Ruby only defines false and nil as false values, isn't this more explicit? Highlight how languages embed their own philosophies of what is correct and true with surprising overlaps and at times odd contradictions. Location: The Franklin Center 227 West Monroe Street 2nd floor, Chicago, IL (map ) RSVP NOW before it gets *Sold Out* on Meetup.com or Chipy.org. Share this. -- Brian Ray @brianray (773) 669-7717 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: