Racket
(5 Minutes)
By: Joshua Herman
Experience Level: Novice

Contrasting the Python Programming language to Racket.

 

https://racket-lang.org

SQL
(5 Minutes)
By: Heather White
Experience Level: Novice

SQL is a declarative, recursive language.  For this year's Ultimate Language Shootout, I'm going to talk about how SQL is the best language that's not Python. 

Ultimate Language Shootout: R
(5 Minutes)
By: Natasha Polishchuk
Experience Level: Novice

In keeping with the proposed theme, I'd be happy to introduce R and compare/contrast it to Python. I'd like to talk especially about how well suited R is to Statistics, and how Pandas dataframes were inspired by R dataframes.  I've used both in my career as a data analyst and now data engineer, and initially prefered R though I've come around to the Python side.

Ultimate Language Shootout: Craiyon, a language for generating pictures
(5 Minutes)
By: Phil Robare
Experience Level: Novice

Craiyon.com is a front end for a neural network that takes in free-form text and generates images.  It can be viewed as a "language" that "compiles" to produce a binary that is an image.  This is one future of programming.

When should you rewrite in Rust
(15 Minutes)
By: Adrian Garcia Badaracco
Experience Level: Intermediate

When does it make sense to use Rust? What are the top challanges a Python user will face when trying Rust for the first time?

Building Machine Learning Apps with Gradio
(25 Minutes)
By: Freddy Boulton
Experience Level: Novice
Slides Link

The best way to share machine learning models is through interactive web applications that let stakeholders try the models for themselves. By playing with the model through a graphical interface, stakeholders can develop an intuition for how the model works in a way that would be impossible by analyzing average performance metrics or hand-picked examples.

Building web applications for machine learning requires significant knowledge of web development (css, js) and web hosting which are not in the typical data scientist's tool box. 

In this talk, we will introduce a gradio, an open source python library for building and sharing machine learning applications entirely in python. 

Micropython wiggles a mustache
(20 Minutes)
By: Andrew Wingate
Experience Level: Novice

Show off a micropython framework for my mini mustached robot. It's the same robot the I showed the last time, but now it has code and works!

 

Topics include:
event loop

anyncio

state machines

synchronous event management

web hosted interface with repl like repl thing

Micropython turns on a light
(30 Minutes)
By: Carl Karsten
Experience Level: Novice

 

 

Last time I talked about Micropython I didn't show any code. 

This time I have code:

>>> from machine import Pin
>>> p=Pin("D13", Pin.OUT)
>>> p.value(1)

That turns on an LED.  We will talk about what that means, how it happens and the implications of this is the software that makes electronics happen.

There are a few more lines of the same nature: check the state of a switch gives is the I in IO.  For extra credit, we will ...