Python Presentation Night @ Virtual (PPN #116)
Details
We're virtual-only this month.
• Location: Google Meet (link available in Meetup)
Agenda
7:00 - Meetup opens live.
7:15 - Formal program (in-person and online)
- Opening remarks
- Speakers (see below)
- Feel free to bring any brief Python tidbits, experiences, or job openings you'd like to share with the group.
9:00 - Wrap up and Disperse
Questions will be collected from the Google Meet chat or Slack #general channel and answered live.
Speakers/topics
• David Radcliffe -- Exploring number theory with Python.
In 1769, Euler conjectured that it is impossible to express an nth power as the sum of less than n nth powers. This conjecture was disproved in 1966, using a CDC 6600, which found 27^5 + 84^5 + 110^5 + 133^5 = 144^5. In this beginner-friendly talk, I will demonstrate how to find this solution in a few seconds using Python. I will also explain how beginners and experts alike can contribute to mathematical research (and get published!) by contributing Python scripts to the On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.
• John Tramell -- Testing conversational AI behavior with pytest
• We need speakers at future meetups. Please volunteer at https://forms.gle/iE3rHamBqcBAjWMF7. Talks of all lengths, experience level, and topics (Python-related) welcome. At the last meetup there was some suggestions of possible talks related to a college Python/AI project, using GitHub Copilot, Geopandas, and others, for example.
• Space for spontaneous questions, announcements, sharing of tidbits from anyone.
Additional Details
• We follow the PSF Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/conduct/
Please treat your fellow Pythonistas with respect.
• Please remember to update your meetup RSVP if you change your mind about attending.
• Volunteers to speak, host, and greet are needed for future meetups. Talks of all lengths, experience level, and topics (Python-related) welcome. Please sign up here: https://forms.gle/iE3rHamBqcBAjWMF7
• Slack: To join the PyMNtos Slack workspace, please email us organizers@pymntos.org with your email address so we can invite you, or ask an existing member to invite you. (Suggestions for a more permanent, automated solution welcome. Also, apologies: we had the "pymntos.org" part of the email address wrong here prior to 6/30/23, so if you emailed that wrong address, please try again.)
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