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Month: October 2018

IoT in Home – Building a Toilet Vacancy Indicator

Posted on October 27, 2018September 18, 2024

This talk is to encourage audiences start solving problems in their everyday’s life by building IoT systems with Python, Raspberry Pi and sensors. The technologies being used in the project of this talk is not difficult, but when every pieces of technology comes together, we can create something that actually helps. Agenda: 1. Demo video…

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Quant Trading with artificial intelligence

Posted on October 27, 2018September 18, 2024

The objective of the talk is to provide an introduction of how artificial intelligence could be applied in stock trading. This session will introduce how to use Python to extract historical open-high-low-close (OHLC) data, perform data processing, recognise patterns in the stock market with artificial intelligence algorithms and eventually backtest the strategy.  The talk will…

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Secure yourself (& your apps) with Secretless

Posted on October 27, 2018September 18, 2024

All apps need secrets – it could be passwords, API key or cert. We need tons of secrets to do our Dev job, and at the same time, make us as potential suspects during data breaches or cyberattacks. It is totally unavoidable, until now. In this session, 2 open source projects, Conjur & Secretless, will…

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Deep Learning in Python: Image Recognition for Anime Characters

Posted on October 27, 2018September 18, 2024

Deep learning is a booming machine-learning technique which we often read in a lot of articles nowadays. Deep learning sounds like an intimidating concept for a lot of people, but everyone believes that deep learning is a cutting-edge tool to solve a lot of problems. In this talk, we will see how Python and various…

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Enjoy type hinting and its benefits

Posted on October 27, 2018September 18, 2024

From Python 3, type hinting was prompted. Thanks to this, static type analysis is now available in Python’s world. It is possible to use this mechanism with mypy, intellij etc. In this session we will learn about type hinting in Python 3.5 / 3.6/ 3.7. Next, learn how to use static type analysis using mypy….

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Exploiting Emotional Knowledge from Emojis and #Hashtags

Posted on October 26, 2018November 7, 2020

Grasping other person’s emotions or sentiments through texts is challenging even for humans sometimes. I bet you also have an experience that once you were reading someone’s message multiple times to figure out, “Is he/she upset? Or am I too sensitive?” Despite the difficulties, figuring out emotion or sentiment in texts is crucial nowadays, due…

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Industrial Machine Learning Pipelines with Python & Airflow

Posted on October 25, 2018November 7, 2020

This talk will provide a practical deep dive on how to build industry-ready machine learning and data pipelines in Python. I will cover practical presentation that will build from the basics of Airflow, and show how it is possible to build scalable and distributed machine learning data pipelines using a distributed architecture with a producer-…

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Honey, There is a Python in my Android Phone!

Posted on October 25, 2018November 7, 2020

Simple scripting, such as Python, Bash, PHP, Perl are all embedded in modern operating system. Since Android is also a linux-based operating system, with some techniques, it is also possible for us to write a script. Unfortunately before SL4A arrives (Scripting Language 4 Android), it is not possible for us to script on Android phone….

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Neural network image recognition: A “Kong girl” approach to DIY photo sorting

Posted on October 25, 2018November 7, 2020

Ever felt fed up with digging photos out from thousands of images? Should you group them by time or content? Want to tag not just your friends, but also your pets? You know about some paid online services, but they are not as tailor-made, and you want to keep the photos to yourselves? Why not…

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Demystifying speech recognition with Project DeepSpeech

Posted on October 25, 2018November 7, 2020

Our voices are no longer a mystery to speech recognition (SR) software, the technology powering these services has amazed the humanity with its ability to understand us. This talk aims to cover the intrinsic details of advanced state of art SR algorithms with live demos of Project DeepSpeech. A research says that “50% of all…

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