Python Talk Night at City University Seattle (Belltown)
About the event
Join us for an exciting talk night at City University of Seattle's Belltown Campus!
Agenda:
5:30-6pm: Doors open/networking 6-6:10pm: Opening remarks 6:10-6:35pm: Talk #1 6:35-6:50pm: Intermission 6:50-7:05pm: Lightning talk 7:05-7:30pm: Talk #2 7:30pm-8pm: Networking After party to follow at Teku Tavern (552 Denny Way, Seattle, WA 98109)
What we'll do:
This event will feature the following presentations:
Talk #1: The Beautiful Improbability of the Real Speaker: Matt Drury Description: Simple coinflip games are proving grounds for our intuition about the nature of random events and govern conclusions we can responsibility draw from data. In this talk we describe the Arcsine Laws, which were described evocatively by William Feller as: > unexpected [and] come as a shock to intuition and common sense. They will reveal that commonly accepted notions concerning chance fluctuations are without foundation and that the implications of the law of large numbers are widely misconstrued. We give simulation and visual examples, and discuss the consequences for our judgment of player skill, and what much it means if you find yourself winning or losing.
Lightning talk: Pip install rave Speaker: Austin Bennett Description: "An attempt to connect engineers and music concerts (or festivals)." TLDR; - (Flash round) Who am I? (it's my first talk, so my background may be helpful and I can skip this on request or make it less than 30 seconds) - (Confidentiality) Authentication in real life, and what purpose Python serves in a release process (significance of it, and significance of having something reliable) - (Integrity) PLURR, the significance of trusting the community, and how PSKs can play a role in securing future python pip packages - (Availability) A lack of competition (or a lack of creativity) detracting from giving people new experiences (connecting between raves and CI/CD) I think this is very high-level that's more about programming and raving, and less about Python but still making it about python by showing how to secure systems and rolling releases using Python and touching on pip's \`--require-hashes\`.
Talk #2: TBD Speaker: TBD Description: TBD
What to bring:
Since this is a talk format meetup, you don't need a computer.
All attendees are required to abide by the PuPPy Code of Conduct, you can read the Code of Conduct here: https://www.pspython.com/code-of-conduct/
Building access: Please enter the building at the 6th Ave and Wall street entrance.
Parking: The only parking for the event is street and paid garage parking.
Transit: City U's campus is within walking distance of numerous buses including stops on 5th and Wall St, 3rd Ave and Bell St, 3rd Ave and Cedar St, 7th Ave and Denny Way and Dexter Ave and Denny Way.
