Sheena O'Connell
where else to find them
website:https://www.sheenaoc.com/
what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- PyConZA2 editions2019–2021
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on a stage with
- Kim van Wyk3×
- Bruce Merryonce
- David Sharpeonce
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who talks about the same things
- Debbie O'Brien53 talks
- Kate Marshalkina5 talks
- Andrew Knight34 talks
- Alison Wong9 talks
- Michal Slezak3 talks
- Stephen Tierney6 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Playing the long game | NDC London 2026 | 2026-01-26 |
Argues that LLM progress is messy not linear: scaling laws conflict, inference tricks matter, and DeepSeek R1 trains for about a tenth of GPT‑4 cost, which… | ||
| Keynote - Power to the People who Teach the People with Sheena O'Connell | DjangoCon US 2024 | 2024-09-22 |
Argues that one‑on‑one tutoring plus mastery‑based learning reliably moves average outcomes by two standard deviations (Bloom’s two‑sigma → ~2.2% failing)… | ||
| A Tale from the Trenches | PyCon Italia 2024 | 2024-05-22 |
An on-premises training centre suddenly sends 250 learners home and builds a remote system that tracks progress as a knowledge graph, creates GitHub repos for… | ||
| Django Rest Framework + Redux | PyConZA 2021 | 2021-10-07 |
A package connects Django Rest Framework to Redux to manage API state and avoid reimplementing fetch/update logic across frontends, claiming normalized… | ||
| Welcome to Day 2 | PyConZA 2021 | 2021-10-07 |
Morning announcements note one talk is cancelled due to a family emergency and the schedule may shift; conference videos stay online unless a speaker requests… | ||
| Panel Discussion: Educating Coders | PyConZA 2021 | 2021-10-07 |
Umuzi runs a one-year course that splits each 4–6 week module into half classroom and half real build work, teaches Git, testing and TDD, and requires students… | ||
| Friday Lightning Talks | PyConZA 2021 | 2021-10-07 |
Event: PyConZA 2021
URL: https://2021.za.pycon.org/talks/lightning-talks/
The Friday lightning Talk session, which replaced the closing keynote after the… | ||
| Closing | PyConZA 2021 | 2021-10-07 |
Closing counts: 225 tickets sold, 24 speakers, and 168 questions asked through the conference bot, with 1,700+ YouTube views. One live quiz yields a single… | ||
| Apache Airflow @ Umuzi.org | PyConZA 2019 | 2019-10-09 |
Umuzi uses Apache Airflow to replace brittle cron and ad hoc scripts that handled thousands of applicant records, moving to dynamic DAG generation… | ||
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