PyData London - 102nd Meetup

Venue: Riverbank House, 2 Swan Ln, London EC4R 3AD

Please note:

1. 🚨🚨🚨A valid photo ID is required by building security. 🚨🚨🚨
2. This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct. Please familiarise yourself with it before attending.

If your RSVP status says "You're going" you will be able to get in. No need to show your RSVP confirmation when signing in.
If you can no longer make it, please unRSVP as soon as possible.
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Code of Conduct:
This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct. Please get in touch with the organisers with any questions or concerns.
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As always, there will be free food and drinks, generously provided by our host, Man Group.
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Main Talks

1. Productionising research papers with Python and serverless infrastructure - Chess commentary generation use case - Guillaume Allain

Chess commentary generation is a fun research field, combining LLMs with symbolic chess engines to generate grounded chess commentary. In this talk I'll showcase a few ideas from recent papers, and demonstrate how to reproduce them leveraging the modern Python stack together with a serverless cloud provider specialised for AI/ML (modal.com). See accompanying repository GitHub - pilipolio/chess-sandbox: Experimentations with chess engines and LLMs

⚡ Lightning Talks

1. Understanding Embedding Space: Surprises, Pitfalls, and Intuition - Alper Nebi Kanlı
2. Amusingly Abliterated LLMs - Ian Ozsvald
3. I surveyed AI image tech so you don't have to - Terry Lurie
4. Local MCP servers for your Local coding Agents (Cursor, Claude, Codex etc) - Prashant Tiwari

Logistics
Doors open at 6.30 pm (get there early as you'll need to sign in with building security). Talks start at 7:00 pm, with drinks afterwards from 9:00 pm at The Banker (EC4).

We have reduced capacity for this event, but there will be plenty of people to discuss data science questions with!

Please unRSVP in good time if you realise you can't make it. We're limited by building security on the number of attendees, so please free up your place for your fellow community members!