Lightning talks - session 2
summary
Quick patrol of specifics: NumFOCUS says it sponsors 65 projects and the channel is at 169,000 subscribers aiming for 170k; EU chat control claims automatic scanning would touch 400 million EU citizens and 700 researchers sign an open letter; Polars benchmarks claim 83× faster on a 10M‑row test and recommends switching past ~1GB or for complex transforms; demos show immediate‑mode GUI bindings with 120fps and Pyodide deploys, OpenFGA for Zanzibar‑style fine‑grained auth, emoji plotting and QR output from DuckDB, token‑watermarking via green vs red token biasing, and a warning about malicious .pth install hooks.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Session kickoff
- 1:52Num Focus overview and support for open source
- 6:04EU Chat Control privacy
- 10:21Pi Ladies diversity
- 14:56AI-generated lightning talk
- 20:01Immediate mode GUI
- 25:03Fine-grained authorization
- 30:00Scholar AI introduction
- 34:17Dogs, LLMs, and RL
- 40:04Normative AI frameworks
- 44:06Graphing with emojis
- 47:33LLM watermarking
- 52:11AI for good in education
- 53:54Python PTH security
- 57:27Wrap-up and sprints
