ChiPy July 2026 __main__ Meeting
Details
ChiPy July Main Meeting - July 9, 2026, 6pm.
We will have food and beverages at 6pm, with talks starting at 6:30pm.
Hosted by: mHUB
Pulto: A Spatial Jupyter Client for the Apple Vision Pro
By: Joshua Herman
Experience Level: Intermediate
Length: 30 Minutes
Description:
This is a talk about making a Jupyter client for the Apple Vision Pro targeting the VisionOS operating system. It has largely been implemented in Swift, but there is also an extended Jupyter server to manage 3D models, Gaussian Splats, and Point Cloud data. A great part of the implementation was vibe coded, and much of that process will be discussed. Topics include:
- Apple Human Interface Guidelines (for the Vision Pro)
- Complying with App Store policies (what can be done on devices)
- Interfacing with Jupyter remotely
- Rendering custom cells
Inference at Scale: Transcribing Millions of Insurance Calls with Whisper and Azure ML
By: Jimmy Scray
Experience Level: Intermediate
Length: 25 Minutes
Description:
Transcribing a few audio files with Whisper is easy; doing it for millions of recordings reliably and cost-effectively is another problem entirely. This talk digs into the Python code and infrastructure behind a large-scale speech-transcription platform built for the insurance industry, tracing how a notebook prototype grew into a distributed inference pipeline running across thousands of GPU workers. The focus is inference engineering rather than ML theory: benchmarking CPU vs. GPU workloads, maximizing throughput, orchestrating jobs with Azure ML, surviving spot-instance interruptions, and writing resilient code that recovers from failures and resumes automatically. Expect real benchmark results, architecture decisions, code examples, and lessons learned from production.
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Further details:
https://www.chipy.org/meetings/1146/
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Logistics
When: July 9, 2026, 6:00 pm
Hosted by: mHUB
Where: 1623 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612