PyCon UK 2018
2018-09-15..2018-09-19
Cardiff, United Kingdom
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday Introduction | 11m | |
Volunteer-run conference with professional AV help; free creche is available and organisers ask attendees to tell others so it gets used. Keynote by Nicolette… | ||
| Tuesday Keynote | Nikoleta E. Glynatsi | 49m |
Uses Python to gather and analyse academic metadata, builds coauthorship networks with NetworkX, and measures influence with centrality scores; reproduces… | ||
| Machine Learning: Better than Traditional Techniques? | Hannah Higgins | 29m |
Compares ARIMA and machine learning on daily S&P500 (1950s–2018) and FTSE100 (2001–2018) data, fitting an ARIMA(2,1,0) baseline and several ML models including… | ||
| Programming paradigms for physical computing and IoT | Ben Nuttall | 26m |
GPIO Zero provides a Pythonic API that maps real devices to device classes and supports four concrete paradigms: procedural polling, event-driven callbacks… | ||
| Django at | Mathieu Dähne, Rhys Howells | 26m |
Built an MVP in seven weeks and iterated it into a live product that served over 2 million quotes and insured ~160 non‑owners while the team grows from a… | ||
| How to screw up hiring | Kristian Glass | 14m |
Lists of arbitrary requirements and demanded degrees cost good applicants and waste time; remove bogus requirements and state what the job actually needs… | ||
| persistent collections as a service | Tony Ibbs | 25m |
Quick practical tour of Redis showing actual commands and use cases: BRPOPLPUSH used to implement a reliable circular queue and it works atomically; counters… | ||
| Python 2 is dead! Drag your old code into the modern age | Becky Smith | 26m |
An 8-year-old Django codebase of ~70,000 Python lines migrates from 2.7 to Python 3.6 using 2to3, caniusepython3 and pylint --py3k, plus virtualenvs, tox and… | ||
| Introduction to Neural Networks | Emma Gordon | 25m |
Builds a working Python neural net implemented from scratch using sigmoid neurons, quadratic cost and stochastic gradient descent with backpropagation; trains… | ||
| Coding as a second career | Susan Shindler | 24m |
Joins a startup at about 40 and learns Python in roughly a year using Stack Overflow, paid paired sessions from contractors and Jupyter notebooks to test code… | ||
| Bot tournament wrap-up and show-and-tell | Peter Inglesby | 21m |
A weekend tournament runs 327 bots from 20 people through 39,169 games of Connect Four with an opcode limit per move (small CPU/opcode budget). The top entry… | ||
| Tuesday Lightning Talks | Brian cup | 01h 02m |
Evening events include live electronic music with Python — a workshop-backed performance tonight at 19:30 in the lower hall where attendees demo code-driven… | ||
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