[Chicago] Introduction and possible presentations for Feb 14th.

[Randy Baxley]

Not joking at all, I have been crying in my beer since Aaron took his life.
 I did not know Aaron but went to be a buffer that turned out to be of no
need.  I am sort of a cultist myself but I really do not fit in a single
cult and am basically a lover of all that is boring.  I thank Rob of ChiPy
for saying hello and hope you are doing well.  I do not hink the ChiPy
meetings should change but I would, selfishly, like to see some hacks and
sprints held on a monthly or biweekly basis.  The office hours are a
beginning but the Pumping Station: One has so much else that is wonderful
it is a distraction from computer hacking.


On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Adam Forsyth <adam at adamforsyth.net> wrote:

> +1 to Snakebite.
>
> While the parallelization talk sounds awesome, and I would love to hear
> it, I think the Snakebite talk might dovetail better with the community /
> Aaron Swartz focus I think people have been considering for the February
> meeting?
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Brian Curtin <brian at python.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Trent Nelson <trent at snakebite.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi folks!
>> >
>> >     As luck would have it, it's highly likely I'll be visiting the Windy
>> >     City on the weekend of Feb 15th, so I figured why not try and come a
>> >     day earlier and attend the meetup on the 14th.
>> >
>> >     Little bit of background: I'm a Python and Subversion committer and
>> >     also the founder of Snakebite (www.snakebite.net).  I'd be up for
>> >     giving a presentation if time allows.  I have two in mind:
>> >
>> >         - A general presentation on Snakebite -- I've given these in the
>> >           past and they've always been well received.  Not technical,
>> >           should have wide appeal.
>> >
>> >         - A pre-PyCon presentation on a little project I've been working
>> >           on the past month: "Parallelizing the Python Interpreter: The
>> >           Quest for True Asynchronicity".
>> >
>> >           Sensational title aside, this presentation details the work
>> >           I've done to "parallelize" the Python interpreter; allowing
>> >           Python code to exploit all CPU cores without impeding normal
>> >           single-threaded performance.
>> >
>> >           (This work is comparable to previous attempts to remove the
>> >           GIL with fine-grained locking, as well as the STM work being
>> >           done in PyPy.  My approach differs from both: I don't remove
>> >           the GIL nor do I introduce fine-grained locking (which is why
>> >           single-threaded execution doesn't take a performance hit).)
>> >
>> >           This would be a very technical presentation.  There's even a
>> >           bit of assembly language involved (well, compiler intrinsics,
>> >           at least).  However, it's a pretty cool topic, so even if you
>> >           don't grok the low-level CPython internal stuff, there will be
>> >           lots of other interesting stuff at a higher level.
>> >
>> >     Look forward to meeting you all!  (Chicago is probably my favourite
>> >     city in the US.)
>>
>> Huge +1 on both, but a bigger +1 on the parallel talk.
>>
>> However, I'm not 100% sure yet if I can make it to the meeting :(
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