Python Ireland meetup

For this month's meetup we will have two talks. Capacity is limited on the night, so please ensure you have an RSVP to attend.

Talk 1 - The Missing Manual for GP-GPU Computation with Python Numba

Python Numba is an excellent module to obtain LLVM optimization without delving into Cython. It also promises similar level of abstraction for GP-GPU optimization with CUDA. However, as always, things don't go swimmingly with few simple modifications; add poor documentation and minimal concern for backwards-compatibility, you find yourself bewildering through CUDA tutorials and C++ codes, which you wanted to avoid in the first place. In this talk I'll try to produce the missing manual for GP-GPU Computation using Python Numba so that next generations won't suffer; until they change the code again, of course.

• Ertuğrul Karademir

Lightening Talk - Python in Space Science - Daniel Vagg

Talk 2 - Design a word clock facade using a genetic algorithm

Word clocks are a family of mural or table clocks that
display time in plain text, like "it's ten past two".

How to fit all possible ways to spell the time in a grid ?
For the fun of it, the approach here is to use a genetic algorithm.

Randomly evolving a population of possible solutions, generation
after generation until eventually a solution is reached.

In this 30-35 minutes talk I'll present the detailed code in
a Jupyter notebook, and an quick overview of the results obtained.

• Nicolas Laurance

Once all the talks are finished we will be heading to Brewdock (https://www.google.ie/maps/place/The+Brew+Dock/@53.35009,-6.25107,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x3eca7c0e73a8cc63?sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjjgNurkIvTAhVKD8AKHZThD_UQ_BIIezAK) bar.