January 2024 meeting
Date: Monday, January 8th @ 7pm
Princeton Python Monthly: Jan 2024
Happy 2024!
Our next meeting is this Monday!
As usual we will start with some beginner-friendly code, then everyone's introductions/updates.
Steve had some trouble seeing our matrix chat page via element, so we may have a collective look at that.
John has been helping test the new version of screenity, the open source screen recorder.
And finally Mike's links, Python news and the usual mix of the latest tools, testing, and tutorials at https://www.princetonpy.org/next-meeting/.
And as always, your questions/ideas/doings are welcome--so join us!
Note our unchanging meeting url--use the Jitsi meeting link on our home page.
But first, check out AI Study Group this Sunday! Rick says:
I'm planning to look into Google's AI infrastructure. A hello world and inventory review.
There are some new papers on text to 3D modeling.
Check in with Adam and his attempt to run Mistral locally.
I plan to talk a bit about home autonomous and local LLM models.
events:
sun07jan 2p AI Study Group [first sundays]
mon08jan 7p princetonpy meeting [second mondays]
links:
January links: https://www.princetonpy.org/next-meeting/
AI Study Group: https://fubarlabs.org/schedule/
screenity: https://github.com/alyssaxuu/screenity
matrix via element: https://app.element.io/?updated=1.11.36#/room/#ppug-meetings:matrix.org
Links:
- Python, C, Assembly - 2,500x faster cosine similarity
- The Big Cloud Exit FAQ
- DHH argues cloud computing is a decision for most companies a matter of marketing
- PyPI spotlight: snowmachine
- microsoft/promptbase
- Vivaldi 6.5 release introduces the Sessions Panel
- What we know we don't know
- Accessibility update: arXiv now offers papers in HTML format
- Namespace packages
- jQuery 4.0 is being prepared for release
- My journey to build daisyUI
- No Silver Bullet Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr
- "Of all the monsters who fill the nightmares of our folklore, none terrify more than werewolves, because they transform unexpectedly from the familiar into horrors. For these, one seeks bullets of silver that can magically lay them to rest. The familiar software project has something of this character (at least as seen by the non-technical manager), usually innocent and straightforward, but capable of becoming a monster of missed schedules, blown budgets, and flawed products. So we hear desperate cries for a silver bullet, something to make software costs drop as rapidly as computer hardware costs do."
- "The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one."
- "The hard thing about building software is deciding what one wants to say, not saying it. No facilitation of expression can give more than marginal gains."
- Alternate Futures for “Web Components”
- The Matrix Holiday Update 2023
- Tailwind, and the death of web craftsmanship
- PyPA Specifications
- How the Python import system works
- PyPI spotlight: manuel
- Standard Ebooks
- SIMD in Pure Python
- PyPI spotlight: poethepoet
- missing the point of webassembly