[VIRTUAL] PyAmsterdam.union("Python Ireland") #StayAtHome

Are you dealing with isolation due to COVID-19? Are you missing your
friends from the Python community? PyAmsterdam is also moving online
to help you!

This opportunity we are going to co-host with our friends from Python
Ireland.
You can RSVP here or on the Python Ireland meetup https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/pythonireland/events/270568029/

A link to join the Zoom meeting will be available for you after RSVP.

Python Ireland

Python Ireland [1] is a group for anyone interested in learning more
about the Python programming language. We aim to hold a meetup every
month on a variety of topics from Computer Science, finance, research,
big data and more, with a focus on Python-related technologies.

It is suitable for all levels and new people are always welcome.

Due to Covid-19, we are trying to keep the community even more united
and engaged so we have been running some extra online events
independently and on a consortium-base, if you wish to talk, please
send us an email on contact@python.ie or find us on twitter as
@PythonIreland

We also have an annual conference in November called PyCon Ireland. If
you are interested in hearing more about this conference, or our group
please check out our website at http://python.ie/ (http://python.ie).

Schedule

Warning: Schedule is in CEST (UTC+02:00)

• 19:30 | Opening / General Python news |
• 20:00 | WORKSHOP: Chatbot from Command Line |
• 20:30 | Q&A |
• 21:00 | Lightning talks |
• 21:30 | Closing (if no further interest) |

The workshop:

In this workshop, you will get to build your first chatbot from the
command line using Rasa open source and Python.

You'll build an assistant that can:

• detect what the intent of the user is;

• parse the text to retrieve important references;

• use custom python code in the conversation;

• stick to predefined stories (we'll see a hugging face demo to
  demonstrate why this is a nice thing);

• actively learn from your conversations.

We'll also briefly discuss topics in NLP in general, like named entity
recognition, but the main goal though is to get a working assistant
running locally.

Rasa works on top of TensorFlow 2 but you won't need to be familiar
with it to get it to run.

If you're new to python, or if you want to make a head start, then you
may appreciate these two installation guides for Rasa:

• macOS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqzsE70Rvr0

• windows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ewIABo0OkU

• ubuntu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXiYJM2vGJk

The workshopper

Vincent D. Warmerdam is a Research Advocate at Rasa where he helps the
research team explain and explore modern NLP algorithms for digital
assistants. You may have seen him before at PyData. You can usually
find him on stage defending common sense over hype, but you may also
have seen some of his open source projects (scikit-lego, evol and
whatlies) or some of his online videos (spaCy, algorithm whiteboard).
He blogs over at koaning.io [3].

Looking forward to have you all there, folks!