Python Meetup November: It's AImost Christmas
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For the month of November, we have two amazing talks about Genetic Algorithms and GPUs.
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Schedule:
- 👋 & 🗣️ 18:30: Welcome and Talks
- 🍕 & 🍻 20:00: Networking, food and drinks!
- 👋 21:00: Bye!
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- ➡️ What: "Genetic Algorithms and Clustering for Optimal Solution Search"
- 📢 Who: Oriol Porta Tovar
- ⏱ Duration: 30 min
- 👅 Language: English
- 🧐 Abstract: The concept of genetic algorithms is explained, which generate populations of solutions, evaluate their performance, select the best ones, and combine them to improve. These algorithms are effective in finding solutions to complex problems through an iterative process of selection, crossover, and mutation.
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- ➡️ What: From hours to seconds: How NVIDIA RAPIDS is Revolutionizing Big Data Processing
- 📢 Who: Mauricio Volcanes
- ⏱ Duration: 30 min
- 👅 Language: English
- 🧐 Abstract: This talk explores the benefits of NVIDIA RAPIDS, a GPU-accelerated data science framework, compared to traditional CPU-based libraries like Pandas. By benchmarking performance on real-world datasets, we uncover the conditions where RAPIDS excels and demonstrate its potential for accelerating large-scale data workflows. Attendees will learn practical strategies for optimizing workflows, understanding performance trade-offs, and leveraging dataset scaling. The session requires a basic understanding of Python, familiarity with data processing tools like Pandas, and access to a system with a GPU or a Google Collab account.
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➡️ Location:
InnoIT Barcelona - Carrer de Pallars, 108, Sant Martí, 08018 Barcelona
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➡️ Access Control
- 🛂 The security access control requires an attendee list (full name) and a means of identification (DNI, NIE, passport)
- ⚠️ Make sure you register for the event with your full name and ID. Otherwise, you will be REMOVED from the attendance list.
- 🪪 You’ll be asked to provide that ID to access the building.
- 🚸 People under 18 years old shall be accompanied by a legal guardian
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➡️ Only register if you can attend!
- 🪑 There are limited seats, so please be responsible when signing up
- 🚷 If you can't make it, please free up your seat, so someone else can attend. We keep a list with repeated offenders!
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