Month: October 2018

How to run your application on cloud is one of most challenging tasks in the full development cycle. With the latest serverless technology, we can deploy our application easily on cloud, with much more affordable cost, but with more server processing power. This talk will also discuss on how to archive asynchronous function call on…

MySQL 8.0 introduced the MySQL Document Store, allowing developers to work with SQL relational tables and schema-less JSON collections through the use of the X DevAPI. Join us to better understand how MySQL Connector/Python implements and makes use of the X DevAPI along with a quick demo showcasing its most relevant features. Additionally, concepts such…

This talk would cover all about the development sprint which has been hidden weapon of Python community that helps us to have a healthy ecosystem. In this talk, I’ll show the history of development sprint, how it helps us become a strong and diverse community, and how can you host your own development sprint along…

The recent trends in distributed Deep Learning and how distributed system can both massively reduce training time and enable parallelisation. I will introduce different distributed deep learning paradigms, including model-level parallelism and data-level parallelism, and demonstrate how data parallelism can be used for distributed training.In next iteration phase of deep learning there will be need…

In this talk I will demonstrate how to create Artificial Life in a computer using Python and its wonderful libraries. The Python program, called “Lenia”, is developed to discover/evolve new life species, using its interactive UI to facilitate Evolutionary Algorithms (EA). A video recorded from the program won the Virtual Creatures Contest in GECCO conference…

Do you know that Slack knows that Integration and API are easy to use and are hackable collaboration platform? Even Python is able to easily make chatbot by using slackbot ( https://github.com/lins05/slackbot ) . With using this framework, you are able to let slackbot perform a Python process triggered by a mention or a keyword…

Part 1 – Digitizing documents with powerful python libraries So.. in the digital era you suddenly realise that until very recently not all valuable information kept is/was machine friendly, there are tons of word and pdf documents with reports, meetings minutes, contracts and so-on waiting to be re-discovered. With python libraries PdfMiner, PyPDF2 among others,…

Introduction of super resolution with deep learning techniques. Super resolution is a technique which serve low- resolution image as input and outputs high-resolution images. How to preserve edges and restore detail information in the high-resolution image is very important. In this talk, we will discuss the developments of super resolution, especially methods using deep learning…

Apache Kafka is widely used in large scale message processing applications. However, build a (job|task|work) processing system with Kafka is not straightforward. The talk will share experience on building a heterogeneous Job processing with Kafka and Python. The mentioned job processing mechanism can be made use of to several scenarios, e.g., cloud resource provisioning, tiering…

Machine learning is now widely used in different applications. In some cases, it is sufficient to generate batch results using machine learning models in an offline manner. However, in other cases, models must be deployed online in a production environment, such that end users or other system components can benefit from the real-time outputs of…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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….

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…

It’s less than 20 early bird tickets left after a week long of early bird ticket sales, and we announces to extend early bird ticket sales to 28 October 23:00 HKT for remain early bird tickets. Let’s get your PyCon HK 2018 Ticket now at Eventbrite!