Walking in, I spied Guido immediately, which makes it official, then I registered, no lines, the Oregon Convention Center seemingly almost empty but for the geeks around tables. Looks are deceiving however: they're all in tutorial sessions, with lunch about to start.
I'm taking a low key approach this year, haunting the periphery more, checking out open spaces, or such is the plan. In years past, I've been ravenous to not miss a thing. Designing one's own experience is an art.
I grabbed a Max at the Hollywood stop, leaving a car. I have a gig co-teaching at Laurelhurst PPS back near where I parked it. Then tonight, rather than attend the Intel sponsored soiree, I'm heading into town for an ISEPP lecture, Terry Bristol presenting, Carol Urner (MVP, mom) joining me. This is the final lecture of the season and will there be another one?
In my May 5 lecture above (embedded Youtube), I exult about the ISEPP Linus Pauling Memorial Lecture Series and all the great minds it has brought to Portland.
Tomorrow the conference starts in earnest with the opening keynote and lots of talks. I'm in one of the tutorial rooms as I write this; Applied Modern Cryptography in Python begins at 1:20 PM. Maybe I can sit in for forty minutes to an hour, before grabbing a Max back to Hollywood.
A threesome next to me is yakking about the concept of "duality" as relating to topology and polyhedrons. I must be in the right place, huh.
At lunch I met a chief of Visual Studio documentation. Microsoft is making Python a top-level citizen in the VS ecosystem, meaning a direct install option. That's CPython, not IronPython or Python .NET as some call it. The consensus seems to be: we use Python for machine learning and data analysis. Windows has also made it easy to install a bash shell.
A reason Python might be considered a "glue language" is it's bringing all the platforms together. One ring to rule them all...
Neil Raja, whom I know from Flying Circus, was haunting the hallway track. We ended up at an Anaconda workshop together, about dask, an open source project enabling the use of pandas (a set of data structures) across multiple gigabytes relatively painlessly.
David Koski is flying in Sunday afternoon. I'll be transitioning between Python world and Synergetics world. Glue language.
I'm taking a low key approach this year, haunting the periphery more, checking out open spaces, or such is the plan. In years past, I've been ravenous to not miss a thing. Designing one's own experience is an art.
I grabbed a Max at the Hollywood stop, leaving a car. I have a gig co-teaching at Laurelhurst PPS back near where I parked it. Then tonight, rather than attend the Intel sponsored soiree, I'm heading into town for an ISEPP lecture, Terry Bristol presenting, Carol Urner (MVP, mom) joining me. This is the final lecture of the season and will there be another one?
In my May 5 lecture above (embedded Youtube), I exult about the ISEPP Linus Pauling Memorial Lecture Series and all the great minds it has brought to Portland.
Tomorrow the conference starts in earnest with the opening keynote and lots of talks. I'm in one of the tutorial rooms as I write this; Applied Modern Cryptography in Python begins at 1:20 PM. Maybe I can sit in for forty minutes to an hour, before grabbing a Max back to Hollywood.
A threesome next to me is yakking about the concept of "duality" as relating to topology and polyhedrons. I must be in the right place, huh.
At lunch I met a chief of Visual Studio documentation. Microsoft is making Python a top-level citizen in the VS ecosystem, meaning a direct install option. That's CPython, not IronPython or Python .NET as some call it. The consensus seems to be: we use Python for machine learning and data analysis. Windows has also made it easy to install a bash shell.
A reason Python might be considered a "glue language" is it's bringing all the platforms together. One ring to rule them all...
Neil Raja, whom I know from Flying Circus, was haunting the hallway track. We ended up at an Anaconda workshop together, about dask, an open source project enabling the use of pandas (a set of data structures) across multiple gigabytes relatively painlessly.
David Koski is flying in Sunday afternoon. I'll be transitioning between Python world and Synergetics world. Glue language.
