Python talk night at MotherDuck

Join us for an exciting talk night at MotherDuck in Seattle's Eastlake neighborhood! **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 7:30-7:40pm: Closing remarks After party to follow at Little Water Cantina (2865 Eastlake Ave E, Seattle, WA 98102) **What we'll do:** This event will feature the following presentations: Talk #1: GraphNN with PyTorch for prediction of molecular properties Speaker: Nick Buker Description: This talk walks through building a molecular melting point predictor in Python, starting from string encodings of chemical structures and working up to graph neural networks. We'll cover how to use RDKit to extract molecular properties and how to represent molecules as graphs where atoms are nodes and bonds are edges each with their own embeddings. Graph Isomorphism and Graph Attention Networks built using PyTorch and PyTorch Geometric will be compared against linear regression and boosting baselines. Lightning Talk: all([]) == True and any([]) == False Speaker: Matt Drury Description: The all and any functions reduce lists of booleans to singular truth values, they're pretty useful! At some point, everyone gets curious and throws them an empty list, and the results may seem counterintuitive. We justify the choices here as the correct ones by introducing a style of reasoning from "universal properties". 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](https://www.pspython.com/code-of-conduct/). **Building access:** Motherduck staff will have the front door open and will direct folks to the office which is located upstairs. **Parking:** There is plenty of street parking in the area after 5:30pm **Transportation:** MotherDuck's office is within walking distance of bus stops for Metro routes 49 and 70. Get ready to feast! We're thrilled to announce that **MotherDuck** is generously sponsoring Mexican food and beverages for the event! Big thanks to MotherDuck for making this possible!