Brighton Py - September

Brighton Py will return this September! Whether you're new to Python or Brighton, an old hand or just want to hang out with some like-minded people then come and join us!

After much consideration, we've decided to keep this event online on zoom, and will be looking at making future events hybrid.

Tiago Antao

At the next meetup, Tiago Antao will join us to talk about “Accelerating Data Science with GPU computing”. We’ll look at why GPUS can be orders of magnitude more efficient than CPUs for data science workload, and the pros and cons of GPU architectures.

Tiago will then see how we can program GPUs from Python and in Python, i.e. without the need of using C or other low level languages. We will be using Numba for this.

Alongside this, we’ll discuss existing data science libraries that allow you to use GPUs transparently; without the need to know how to program GPUs directly.

We will talk about CuPy (NumPy for GPUs) and CuDF (Pandas alike), plus cover Dask integration with GPUs.

Howard Sandford

We will also be joined by Howard Sandford aka 'H' discussing "How Python helps protect ten trillion weekly online interactions from cyber fraud".

Human Inc. are the global leader in bot mitigation. They protect many enterprises—including the largest internet platforms—from sophisticated bots by verifying the humanity of nearly ten trillion online interactions every week. The most sophisticated bots look and act like humans when they click on ads, visit websites, fill out forms, take over accounts, and commit payment fraud. Human Inc. stop them.

And how does Python play a role? H is a Senior Software Engineer in the DAIT (Detection Analysis and Investigation Tools) Team at HUMAN, and he reveals a quick glimpse behind the curtain on how Python helps protect those ten trillion weekly interactions from the cyber fraud.