Lightning Talks - Friday May 15, PM
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Short, specific outcomes and working tools matter: a selfie-based contact app that generates LinkedIn QR photos and a tiny front-end repo; hiring fraud evidence showing deepfakes and hacked LinkedIn profiles in real pipelines; live captioning workflows using Plover and steno hardware; a notebook experiment comparing randomness quantum RNG vs classical $40/min; a community course in Portuguese that reports 100+ lives changed; an agent system where a Marcus board beats chat for coordination; Halloween rigs including ChatterPi on a Pi Zero and a SARIMA birth-forecast used operationally.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 1:20Evan Kohilas - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Connecting
- 5:15Jon Gould - Tech Hiring has a Fraud Problem
- 10:29Amanda Lundberg - Captioning PyCon
- 15:38Aayush Gauba - Python and the future of quantum computing
- 19:24Camila Maia, Maria Antonia Maia - Cumbuca Dev
- 25:01Larry Gray - Giving AI Agents a Shared Place to Think
- 34:01Mike McGurrin - Hauntomation: Automating Halloween with Python
- 38:47Jack - Baby Boom: Using Python to Forecast Hospital Births
- 43:27Paul McGuire - re.sub simplified through decoratorification
- 48:48Seongsoo Cho - Growing Open Source Mentors
- 54:09Lex Scarisbrick - Testing + Spoof
- 59:35Leo Postovoit - If Physical Objects Had Python Tracebacks
