Author: Sammy Fung

PyCon Hong Kong 2018 Schedule is now published, conference team reserves the final right to change the program without further notice. Program introduction in PDF format is also available for download. 23 November 2018, Friday   24 November 2018, Saturday

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…

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-…

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….

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…

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…