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# April 2026: Science, Math, and Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary is an unusually science-based science fiction story - especially the book. Let’s take the film’s success as an excuse to dig into some tools for working with science and math in Python and see if we can work out some problems that the book itself suggests.
- Math in LaTeX and Jupyter
- pint for units
- sympy - symbolic math library
- Possibly more?
This will be a lightly prepared meeting; there will no doubt be a lot of live experimentation. Bring any experience you have and a readiness to help question and experiment!
## Location: Innovation Hub
We meet in the Innovation Hub, a gorgeous new facility that’s part of the renovated Dayton Arcade complex.
Enter through the doors that face the Wright Stop Plaza bus hub.
Street parking is free in the evening. I usually park on Ludlow Street.
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if for any reason coming downtown doesn’t work for you (for instance, you’ve been exposed to COVID, or you’ve converted yourself to purely digital format and now exist as a set of cloud-hosted algorithms), we’ll be online as well!
Join us at 7 PM EDT on the PyFri Discord channel, discord.gg/9SgTh3T, and click on the General voice chat link. You may need to install the Discord desktop app rather than just using the web interface.
DDL is dedicated to discussion of technology and techniques related to dynamic programming languages: Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP, JavaScript, and sometimes something more exotic! These languages are fun and easy to get started with, yet powerful enough for all manner of professional use, and our members span the full range of experience with them.
We always leave time for general conversation and questions. Come try one of the most interactive groups around!
The Dayton Dynamic Languages User Group meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month from 7 to 9 PM, online and at Dayton's Innovation Hub (part of the renovated Arcade conmples). Use the General voice channel at discord.gg/9SgTh3T
We are a Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Dayton Microcomputer Association. http://d8ndl.org