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--></style></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Hi Ed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Thanks for your email.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I’m new to programming but am quite interested in the presentations below. I like to be immersed in things that I understand and also haven’t got a clue ?!?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Am I invited to the talks or is this just way too advanced for a newbe?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Pete Dwyer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>melbourne-pug <melbourne-pug-bounces+fps-pd=optusnet.com.au@python.org> on behalf of Ed Schofield <ed@pythoncharmers.com><br><b>Reply-To: </b>Melbourne Python Users Group <melbourne-pug@python.org><br><b>Date: </b>Monday, 29 January 2018 at 8:40 am<br><b>To: </b>Melbourne Python Users Group <melbourne-pug@python.org><br><b>Subject: </b>[melbourne-pug] Next Melbourne Python meeting - Monday 5 February<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Hi all!</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Our first Python meetup for 2018 is next week, Monday 5 February. We have three talks planned:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>1. Fred Rotbart: Hierarchical Temporal Memory in Python</span></b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'> (25-30 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>"Hierarchical Temporal Memory is a biologically-constrained theory of intelligence originally described in the book <i>On Intelligence</i> (Jeff Hawkins & Sandra Blakeslee). HTM is not a Deep Learning or Machine Learning technology. It is a machine intelligence framework strictly based on neuroscience and the physiology and interaction of pyramidal neurons in the neocortex of the mammalian brain." (from <a href="http://numenta.org">numenta.org</a>).</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>2. Andrew Stuart: How to run your Python code in a Run-From-RAM operating system in the cloud </span></b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>(10 minutes)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Andrew has built a system called bootrino to boot Run-From-RAM operating systems in the cloud in order to run Python code fast and securely from Google, Amazon or Digital Ocean servers.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>3. Ed Schofield: Data classes: what, when, why?</span></b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'> (15 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Data classes will be a new feature of the Python 3.7 standard library that offers types similar to a mutable namedtuple with defaults. They promise to reduce the need for boilerplate code for classes which store multiple properties. We'll review data classes versus the popular <i>attrs</i> and <i>traitlets</i> projects.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>4. Lightning talks & announcements</span></b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>When:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'> 5.45pm for mingling; <span class=gmail-m2363855253339576175il>talks</span> starting at 6pm<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Where:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Outcome-Hub Co-Working Space<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Suite 1, 121 Cardigan Street, Carlton<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>How to get there:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Walk 12 minutes north from <span class=gmail-m2363855253339576175il>Melbourne</span> Central station.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Afterwards:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'> general announcements and pizza. Then maybe drinks on Lygon Street.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Sponsorship:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'> many thanks to Outcome Hub for providing the venue and <span class=gmail-m2363855253339576175il>Python</span> Charmers for ongoing sponsorship.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Please RSVP on Meetup.com so we can track numbers: <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-Python-Meetup-Group/">https://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-Python-Meetup-Group/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>We hope to see you there! :-D<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'> Ed<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#666666'>Dr. Edward Schofield<br>Python Charmers<br>+61 (0)405 676 229<br><a href="http://pythoncharmers.com" target="_blank">http://pythoncharmers.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________ melbourne-pug mailing list melbourne-pug@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>