[Numpy-discussion] PyData Barcelona this May

[Francesc Alted]

2017-03-17 12:37 GMT+01:00 Jaime Fernández del Río <jaime.frio at gmail.com>:

> Last night I gave a short talk to the PyData Zürich meetup on Julian's
> temporary elision PR, and Pauli's overlapping memory one. My learnings from
> that experiment are:
>
>    - there is no way to talk about both things in a 30 minute talk: I
>    barely scraped the surface and ended up needing 25 minutes.
>    - many people that use numpy in their daily work don't know what
>    strides are, this was a BIG surprise for me.
>
> Based on that experience, I was thinking that maybe a good topic for a
> workshop would be NumPy's memory model: views, reshaping, strides, some
> hints of buffering in the iterator...
>

​Yeah, I think that workshop would represent a very valuable insight to
many people using NumPy​.


>
> And Julian's temporary work lends itself to a very nice talk, more on
> Python internals than on NumPy, but it's a very cool subject nonetheless.
>
> So my thinking is that I am going to propose those two, as a workshop and
> a talk. Thoughts?
>

​+1​



>
> Jaime
>
> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 8:29 PM, Sebastian Berg <sebastian at sipsolutions.net
> > wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2017-03-09 at 15:45 +0100, Jaime Fernández del Río wrote:
>> > There will be a PyData conference in Barcelona this May:
>> >
>> > http://pydata.org/barcelona2017/
>> >
>> > I am planning on attending, and was thinking of maybe proposing to
>> > organize a numpy-themed workshop or tutorial.
>> >
>> > My personal inclination would be to look at some advanced topic that
>> > I know well, like writing gufuncs in Cython, but wouldn't mind doing
>> > a more run of the mill thing. Anyone has any thoughts or experiences
>> > on what has worked well in similar situations? Any specific topic you
>> > always wanted to attend a workshop on, but were afraid to ask?
>> >
>> > Alternatively, or on top of the workshop, I could propose to do a
>> > talk: talking last year at PyData Madrid about the new indexing was a
>> > lot of fun! Thing is, I have been quite disconnected from the project
>> > this past year, and can't really think of any worthwhile topic. Is
>> > there any message that we as a project would like to get out to the
>> > larger community?
>> >
>>
>> Francesc already pointed out the temporary optimization. From what I
>> remember, my personal highlight would probably be Pauli's work on the
>> memory overlap detection. Though both are rather passive improvements I
>> guess (you don't really have to learn them to use them), its very cool!
>> And if its about highlighting new stuff, these can probably easily fill
>> a talk.
>>
>> > And if you are planning on attending, please give me a shout.
>> >
>>
>> Barcelona :). Maybe I should think about it, but probably not.
>>
>>
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Jaime
>> >
>> > --
>> > (\__/)
>> > ( O.o)
>> > ( > <) Este es Conejo. Copia a Conejo en tu firma y ayúdale en sus
>> > planes de dominación mundial.
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > NumPy-Discussion mailing list
>> > NumPy-Discussion at scipy.org
>> > https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
>> _______________________________________________
>> NumPy-Discussion mailing list
>> NumPy-Discussion at scipy.org
>> https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> (\__/)
> ( O.o)
> ( > <) Este es Conejo. Copia a Conejo en tu firma y ayúdale en sus planes
> de dominación mundial.
>
> _______________________________________________
> NumPy-Discussion mailing list
> NumPy-Discussion at scipy.org
> https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
>
>


-- 
Francesc Alted
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/attachments/20170317/09923494/attachment.html>