November Meet Minutes

January 2, 2017

Welcome note by Vijay Kumar

First talk: GIT repository by Vijay Kumar

Take aways:

1. GIT repository file representation - .git objects

2. Basics of Commit and checkout

3. How to solve DVCS issue - using SHA1

4. Solve Order issue using - Blob object and commit object

5. Some git functions - Diff , log etc.,

Complete Material available at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/building-git-from-scratch-vijay-kumar-bagavath-singh

Reference:

• https://github.com/bravegnu/tiny-git

• https://git-scm.com/documentation

Second talk: OpenCV by Mohan Raj (MIT research fellow)

Take aways:

1. Equivalent to MATLAB + more , supports runtime memory managment unlike MATLAB

2. How Image processing made easy with OpenCV

   a. Image fetching and display

   b. Image cropping

   c. Image fill

   d. Draw line, rectangle with definite thickeness

   e. Rectangle with fill [-1 thickness argument]

3. RBG colour matrix representation of a image:- 2 point representation [B&W], 3 point representation [R-G-B]

Reference:

• http://www.pyimagesearch.com

• http://machinelearningmastery.com

• http://docs.opencv.org/3.0-beta/doc/py_tutorials/py_tutorials.html

• https://developer.nvidia.com/opencv

Networking Tea break sponsored by Zilogic Systems

Get to know People with varied background.

Third talk on AsyncIO Programming: by Yogesh Dujodwala

1. What is Async IO

2. Brief on AsyncIO with example

3. AsyncIO on Python 3.5 as library

4. AsyncIO for efficiency in WebServers

References:

• https://pymotw.com/3/asyncio/
• https://github.com/neoyogi/python_websocket_demo

Lightning talk 1: by Gaurauv

Test your skills on python

Reference site:

• https://www.hackerrank.com

• https://www.kaggle.com

Lightning talk 2: by Vijaykumar

• Key importance/application of AsyncIO

• Multithreading vs Multiprocessing vs AsyncIO

Minutes contributed by Krishnakumar Natarajan (kk200488 at gmail dot com)