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PyCon US 2024

Day 4: Talks (278) Kevin Brown-Silva (76)

I enjoyed the diversity and inclusion panel at PyCon, and I especially appreciated the call for support at the end for the various groups they represented.

Berlin: berlin.pyladies.com
@pytexas: pytexas.org/sponsorship/friend
APAC: pycon.asia/
@apyb: apyb.python.org.br/
Ghana: linktr.ee/pyladiesghana

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I love the idea of "slop" becoming the "spam" equivalent for LLM output.

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"How can we tell which models work best? Vibes" from @simon keynote at

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I'm attending the awesome talk from @mdboom titled "Measuring the performance of CPython" and I appreciated the call to action to get more benchmarks for pyperformance: github.com/python/pyperformanc

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After the excellent keynote by @simon there is a break before today's talks begin for . Why not check out an open space?

Room 308: @conda and friends
Room 309: Performance testing in CI with Codespeed
Room 315: and cybersecurity
Room 318: and Coding
Room 320: Workflow orchestration with Prefect
Room 321: Neurodivergent people: meet and greet

Please note that Real World Python was originally scheduled for Room 316 but has been moved.

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Open spaces for 11am (as of 10:30am) for

Room 308: @micropython
Room 309: @nix
Room 315: and
Room 316: Data Engineering Patterns for Healthcare
Room 318: High Schoolers
Room 320: Learning @rust
Room 321: Data Science Meetup

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Attending the talk "Lies, damned lies and large language models" by @t_redactyl at in Ballroom BC and I'm excited to learn why they hallucinate so much.

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Rock, paper, scissors competition on Sunday at in Room 310/311 at 11am! Everyone is welcome and it's usually a pretty kicked back atmosphere.

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Good morning everyone! There's one open space scheduled for 8am currently.

Room 309: Python Professionals / Educators from Australia/NZ

There are also lighting talks happening in Expo Hall B.

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Waiting for lunch but you're not sure what talk you want to attend? What not attend an open space!

Room 308: Single Node Data Processing
Room 309: Bash and other terminals and tools
Room 315: Interview question practice
Room 316: Using Python with Beam and @airflow
Room 318: Litestar Bug Bash
Room 320: Geospatial
Room 322: PyCon APAC

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