7. SaarPython Meetup

Dear All,

Get ready for the 7. SaarPython Meetup.

Thanks again to natif.ai GmbH for hosting the event.

Refreshments and snacks will be provided during the event. The capacity of the venue is limited, so make sure to RSVP early enough and to un-RSVP if you can't make it to the event.

Let's meet for another round of interesting Python talks!

Yves

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Talk 1:
Kartik Kadur
Title: "Digital Document Stream Segmentation"
Abstract: In an effort to digitize physical documents, many businesses scan large groups of documents together to create a continuous stream of pages. Managing these digital streams requires the separation of the stream into individual documents. What are the existing methods that are followed? What are the problems in the existing process? What are the potential solutions?

Talk 2:
Achim Domma
Title: "PyO3: Mixing Rust & Python, smoother than expected."
Abstract: I recently had to experiment with PyO3 for my day job and it was a surprisingly pleasant experience. I'll share details about how to get started and what options become available to you via this project.

Talk 3:
Sebastian Kalkowski
Title: "If you need it to quack, make sure it’s a duck"
Abstract: If you want to avoid TypeErrors at runtime in production, mypy has your back with static type-checking. It will become even more powerful if you educate it about your expectations for your interfaces. But how do you even do that? What are the quirks and tradeoffs? This talk will tell a quick story about the many ways of typing Python interfaces, feat. Union, abc.ABC and Protocol.

Talk 4:
Yves Hilpisch
Title: "ChatGPT, Bard, and Quantitative Finance"
Abstract: This talk shows a few examples of the capabilities of ChatGPT (and Bard) to understand advanced financial topics and generate Python code to implement related concepts/models.