Pamela Fox (31)
Look at the amazing earrings I won at the PyLadies #PyconUS Auction!
1,674 glass beads arranged to represent a Python program.
Should I wear them to my poster session for everyone to check out?
Yes, I will find any excuse to wear my llama ears at #PyconUS.
Want to geek out on vector embeddings?
Come check out my poster at #PyconUS, from 10am-1pm today!
Spoilers: Here's the digital version for anyone not here:
https://tinyurl.com/visual-vectors-poster
Learnt a ton from @crazy4pi314 in their "Snakes in a Grid" tutorial at #PyconUS about how we can use Python to work with Excel spreadsheets:
* Use pandas read_excel() to turn an XLSX into a dataframe, and to_excel() to turn a dataframe to an XLSX
https://github.com/crazy4pi314/snakes-in-a-grid/blob/main/2_work-with-pandas.ipynb
* Use openpyxl to create a spreadsheet from scratch, complete with working formulas and charts!
https://github.com/crazy4pi314/snakes-in-a-grid/blob/main/3_work-with-openpyxl.ipynb
Learnt about t-strings from @davepeck and @pauleveritt at #FlaskCon-
the formatting is the exact same as f-strings, but the return type is a Template object with a mix of strings and interpolated values.
I stopped by @pydantic AI booth to say hi, and it turned into a debugging session with @samuelcolvin to figure out when/why SLMs fail to handle agentic function calling flows. Determined that SLMs like llama3.1:8b can handle a single tool call, but they don't handle a multi-turn conversation with previous tool call responses very well. Reliability drops drastically.
Finally got to play with the =PY() formula in Excel, thanks to the #PyconUS tutorial from @crazy4pi314
Learnt how to render data frames, explode numpy matrices, and calculate Tetris scores (a problem from the annual Excel competition, which apparently is a thing...)
Working with XLSX files in VS Code?
VS Code extension recommendations from @crazy4pi314 in #PyconUS tutorial
* Excel Viewer: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GrapeCity.gc-excelviewer
* Data Wrangler: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-toolsai.datawrangler
First up at #PyconUS, @tonybaloney is giving an AI Crash Course.
Exercises and slides in:
https://github.com/tonybaloney/PyCon-AI-Crash-Course
