From pknopf at medxchange.com Tue May 2 20:39:50 2017 From: pknopf at medxchange.com (Paul Knopf) Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 20:39:50 -0400 Subject: [Baypiggies] Need a contract developer with experience compiling/embedding/debugging Python. Message-ID: I need to hire a contract developer that can help my development team solve a Python error on our embedded Linux environment. What I currently have: - Yocto image with a simple Qt application embedded that utilizes PyOtherSide. - Simple script to run the root file-system in a qemu emulator (using yocto). - PyOtherSide compiled/linked/baked into the embedded distro. What is happening: - At runtime, I get the following error: Fatal Python error: PyThreadState_Get: no current thread What I need: - Boot the image using qemu, use gdb to find and fix the issue. Let me know if any developer is interested with this. 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In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Charles Merriam wrote: > I'm about to book my silver tube up to PyCon and realize it would be more > fun to carpool up. Either driving the 11 hours in one day or at least > getting taking the same flight. > Not going this year, but I went up to Portland for conferences MANY times in the past (OSCON was there until they moved to Austin last year) and MY favorite way of getting there (having tried many!) is the coastal route. I5 (which does let you get there in one day) is the epitome of boredom, and flying nothing special; but if you drive up by the ocean, it's an absolutely amazing trip. Yeah, you do need to break it into, say, three parts -- costing you a couple days' vacation (but Google's generous with vacation days!-) and Google a couple of motel nights (far from costly)... but it's really great country and amazing entertainment (or at least it was for me, always w/my wife Anna -- first woman Fellow of the PSF, first woman winner of the Frank Willison memorial award for contributions to Python, my co-author in the 2nd ed of "Python Cookbook" and in the hot-of-the-presses 3rd ed of "Python in a Nutshell). The interior route by the Cascades (esp. Mount Shasta) is great too (and takes roughly the same mileage and time) -- the best years we drove up one way (coast or mountains) and back down the other... If you do choose either coastal or mountain routes feel free to mail me for more specific advice about where to stop &c!-) Alex > > My current plan is head up Thursday, come down Sunday night or Monday, but > I'm flexible. > > Let me know if this is interesting to you, > > Charles Merriam > charles.merriam at gmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Baypiggies mailing list > Baypiggies at python.org > To change your subscription options or unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/baypiggies > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This talk will introduce Bowtie and focus on creating dashboards and interesting features. I will also discuss deploying them, the tech stack, and future work and goals. *Speaker Bio* Jacques Kvam is a Data Scientist at Verdigris Technologies, an energy analytics startup. He worked at Sandia National Labs as a staff R&D engineer. He studied signal processing and communications at UW-Madison. *Classifying Images using Convolutional Neural Networks* *Speaker: *Deepthi Mothindra *Abstract* The CIFAR-10 dataset consists of 60000 32x32 colour images in 10 classes, with 6000 images per class. This talk elaborates on how to build the convolutional neural network to classify the images into one of the 10 classes. *Speaker Bio* Deepthi Mohindra is a Quantitative Analyst passionate about exploring data and extracting insights that help drive meaningful impact. Huge fan of Datakind, Udacity and Women Who code communities. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Title: Project-Based Python Programming Classroom instruction (and Lab) is provided on Mondays 7pm to 10pm The Classroom/Lab is in the Santa Clara Adult Education campus: 1840 Benton St 95050, Near San Tomas and El Camino. Then online collaboration happens during other days of the week when you have time. The first class starts on June 5. The last class meets on August 7. The cost is $329 (about $33 / week), much lower than the cost of a boot-camp or university extension class. The class has been completed once in the past and evaluations have been excellent. You will find a signup link at the URL below: https://register.asapconnected.com/ClassDetail.aspx?pk=815707 If you have questions contact me, Dan Bikle, the instructor: bikle101 at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Also, an online class is starting soon: http://course.ucsc-extension.edu/modules/shop/index.html?action=section&OfferingID=1531625&SectionID=5463143 It officially starts on July 21 but the site will be open for an early start June 16. The online class allow you plenty of time to complete the material, and I'm there encouraging you and answering your questions. ---- All our Python courses are hands-on with short lectures, and lots of relevant exercises, and, we study the solutions after some lab time. Questions are always welcome; discussion and pair-programming are encouraged. Please come, and send students! Marilyn Davis, Ph.D. Python Instructor http:www.pythontrainer.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From glen at glenjarvis.com Thu May 25 00:54:42 2017 From: glen at glenjarvis.com (Glen Jarvis) Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 21:54:42 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] Reminder: Talk this week (Today/Thursday) Message-ID: If you can't get enough PyCon this week, we have our normally scheduled talk this week: http://baypiggies.net/ I'm excited and look forward to seeing you there. Jacques Kvam Abstract Creating useful visualizations is an important skill for data scientists. They allow us to gain new insights into our data. Dashboards are powerful tools for creating complex and interactive visualizations. You can explore data in ways static charts cannot. Bowtie is a Python library that makes it easy to create dashboards. This talk will introduce Bowtie and focus on creating dashboards and interesting features. I will also discuss deploying them, the tech stack, and future work and goals. Speaker Bio Jacques Kvam is a Data Scientist at Verdigris Technologies, an energy analytics startup. He worked at Sandia National Labs as a staff R&D engineer. He studied signal processing and communications at UW-Madison. Meeting Details Meeting Schedule: - 7:00 pm Networking and food - 7:15 pm Announcements and presentation - 8:45 pm Random access - 9:00 pm Event ends Location: LinkedIn 605 W. Maude Ave, Sunnyvale, CA. 94085 Meeting Room:Yosemite Room -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nik at nkantar.com Thu May 25 13:17:13 2017 From: nik at nkantar.com (Nik Kantar) Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 10:17:13 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] SimpleLegal is hiring (preferably senior) Python/Django devs in Mountain View (soon San Jose) Message-ID: Hello, fellow BAyPIGgies! (If sending this to the list is for some reason inappropriate, please let me know. The closest I found to any official guidelines was this snapshot of the old site from 2016-09-01: http://web.archive.org/web/20160901194345/http://baypiggies.net/job-listings ) *Who we are* We're a small SaaS company currently located in Mountain View, but with our sights set on some San Jose office space (near CalTrain). We recently raised a successful Series A round and are looking to expand our team pretty aggressively. There are 25 of us at the company, 6 in Engineering, and we'd like to bring on 5?6 more as soon as possible, and another 10 or so within a year. *What we do* I explain our main application as "an accounting platform for corporate attorneys"?it's project (matter) and spend management for in-house counsel. As an enterprise-focused company, we don't have many users in, say, Facebook's sense of "many", but we get to maintain a pretty close relationship with all of them. While our users are few, they depend on our service rather heavily, as their entire job revolves around the data we help them manage, and so they tend to spend significant time in the application. *What we run* Our two applications are written in Django (currently 1.8, looking to migrate to 1.11 soon, running on Python 2 (though hopefully not for too long)). We also make use of PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, S3, and AWS Lambda. We deploy to Heroku and run Docker for local development, and those are subject to change as our needs evolve. Said applications talk to each other via APIs written in Django Rest Framework, and some external consumers use them as well. We're also working with contractors on an Outlook plugin and iOS app. We want to make both applications even more API oriented, possibly implementing something like React to consume them and bring more order to our Bootstrap/jQuery frontend. *Who we're looking for* We need some experienced Python/Django devs more than anything. Ideally, we'd like someone with 3+ years of Django experience, familiar with jQuery, and comfortable with a large and growing codebase. Bonus points for war stories about major refactorings/rewrites. However, we're also open to less experienced as well as more frontend-oriented folks. *What you'd do* You'd write production application code (and tests (and documentation))! We deploy multiple times per week (or day), and ship new features and bugfixes constantly. We try to strike a healthy balance between adding new things, fixing old things, and refactoring even older things. *If you're interested* You have a few options: 1. ask me for more information (on-list or off-); 2. email me saying you're interested (preferably with some info about you, your resume, portfolio, site, blog, GitHub profile, etc.); 3. check out https://www.simplelegal.com/careers and fill out one of the (rather short) applications (in which case it'd be great if you noted where you heard about the job). 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However, now that I'm back in Reality?, it's time to watch some of the many fantastic talks I missed, and who better to ask for recommendations than my favorite subset of the wonderful Python community? Since I did actually attend a few talks, I do have two recommendations. *Jake VanderPlas: The Unexpected Effectiveness of Python in Science* Jake's (opening) keynote was eye opening to me as someone who hasn't really even dipped his toes into data science. Sure, science has always been cool in my eyes, and space is pretty awesome, but I never did anything more than consume the occasional neat article. *Katy Huff: Do It For Science* Katy's (2nd on day 2) keynote was far more inspiring than I expected any talk to be. She showed some examples of the positive impact Python has had on science and then listed project after project after project with numerous open issues. She really drove home the point of how much impact those of us with programming chops could have if we choose to invest our time into this. I'll be taking her up on this challenge shortly. What were your favorite talks? (Yes, it totally counts if you just watched them online!) Cheers, Nik -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: