April 2019 Meetup - Meeting minutes

ChennaiPy April 2019 Meetup - Meeting Minutes

The meetup was held on April 27, 2019, at Pramathi, Chennai.

Speaker: Dhanesh Kasinathan, Architect at Pramathi

Machine Learning Workflow: Xnew -> model -> Ynew.
Objective 1: Understanding Causal Inference and the difference between correlation and causality.
Objective 2: Exploring the "Do-Why" framework from Microsoft.
User Activity on Xbox: How the number of friends impacts user activity and interest in gaming.
Decision-Making Process: Counterfactual explanation and causal graphical models.
Potential Outcomes Framework: Introduced in the context of causal inference.
Principal Component Analysis (PCA): For reducing the number of variables.

Speaker: Karthikeyan Singaravelan, Contributor to CPython at HappyFox

Cookie Jar: A mechanism for storing and sharing cookies.
Security Issue: Prefix on domain name and suffix path in the path parameter was causing issues with Python's request object.
Fix: The security vulnerability was reported and fixed in an upcoming release.
Karthik shared his journey and the time it took to fix the issue and release the fix.

Speaker: Naren

Provided tips and tricks for becoming a successful speaker at meetups and conferences.
Key Tips:
What do you already know? What do you want to know? What do you want to be known for?
CFP (Call for Papers): The importance of a strong title and elevator pitch.
Slides: Keep it simple. Always prepare presentation notes.
Demo: Make it an essential part of your talk.
Stage Presence: Practice in a "test environment", then move to "staging", and finally present in the "production environment" (conference).
Audience Engagement: Always have a call to action for your audience.

Ticket sales will be announced by the end of next month.
Dates: October 12-15, 2019, at Chennai Trade Center.
Events: Poster session, lightning talks, Dev spring for open-source contributions, and more.
Sponsorship opportunities are available.

Speaker: Robin

Fish Dance: Shared how Guido van Rossum was inspired by the "Fish Dance" to start the Python language.
Python Tutor: Introduced pythontutor.com to visualize Python execution, which also supports C, C++, and Java.

The meetup concluded with a lively discussion and networking.

Meeting minutes contributed by Narendran S. S..

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