Re: [python-uk] A paper about Python 2 to Python 3 transitioning

2018-06-20 Thread Thomas Kluyver
I haven't seen it before, but from the abstract, their central result is that most projects are maintaining compatibility with Python 2. This doesn't come as a surprise, but I'd add the words "so far". They cloned repositories in March 2017. In fact, they already picked up IPython and Django mo

[python-uk] Southampton Python meeting - detecting clickbait using machine learning

2017-04-20 Thread Thomas Kluyver
Hi all, The next Southampton Python User Group meeting will be a workshop on text processing and machine learning. If you're coming to this, please bring a laptop to get the most out of it. Detect clickbait with machine learning Date: 6pm-7.30pm 3rd May 2017 Venue: University of Southampton, Nu

Re: [python-uk] Announcing the Yorkshire Inquisition

2016-12-07 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016, at 03:31 PM, Daniel Pope wrote: > Right, so we're in the ridiculous situation where there are stricter > standards in what can be posted to this ML than who can be US > president. This year has certainly generated a whole lot of ridiculous situations. ___

Re: [python-uk] Announcing the Yorkshire Inquisition

2016-12-07 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016, at 01:20 PM, Andy Robinson wrote: > To enforce good conduct in a suitably Pythonic manner, I hereby > propose the foundation of the Yorkshire Inquisition, headed by Steve. I don't think anybody expected that! > Such an institution will have truly terrifying powers of enforce

Re: [python-uk] 2 Principle Engineer roles in London up to £95k

2016-12-07 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016, at 11:54 AM, Richard Smith wrote: > > ... > For getattr(universe, 'deity')'s sake, grow some balls and talk > to people. ... > Words escape me to explain quite how moronic that statement is. Now you are unquestionably being rude to first Cory, then Daniele. The more mes

Re: [python-uk] 2 Principle Engineer roles in London up to £95k

2016-12-07 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016, at 10:57 AM, Kaitlyn Tierney wrote: > I think this is exchange is clear proof that the list requires a Code of > Conduct. Does the list-owner agree, and if so, can we discuss a process > for enacting one to move this conversation in a more productive > direction? Following the

[python-uk] Southampton - Robotic Sailing talk, Monday 3rd October

2016-09-27 Thread Thomas Kluyver
Hi all, The next Southampton Python User Group meeting will be on Monday, with a talk about robotic sailing: When: 6pm, Monday 3rd October Where: Room 1083, Nuffield Theatre (Building 6), University of Southampton. (Right by the university bus interchange, if you're coming on public transport) T

[python-uk] Southampton User Group - CircleCI talk, Thursday 4th August

2016-07-29 Thread Thomas Kluyver
Hi all, The next Southampton Python User Group talk will take place next Thursday evening. This will be a bit more hands on than our previous talks, so it's best to bring a laptop if possible. Continuous Integration with CircleCI Date: 6 p.m. 4th August 2016 Venue: Nuffield Theatre Room 1083 (6/

Re: [python-uk] Next CamPUG meeting: Tue 5th July 2016

2016-06-27 Thread Thomas Kluyver
Coincidentally, the next Southampton PUG meeting will *also* be on the 5th of July, but at 6pm, in the Murray Building at Southampton Uni, room 1023. Robin Wilson will talk about his experience of writing Python code to process millions of data records from mobile phone calls after the Nepal earth

Re: [python-uk] Microbit motion sensors at PyCon UK Teachers' Day

2016-06-21 Thread Thomas Kluyver
I have two microbits, and prototype machinery to drive them from a Jupyter notebook, if that's of interest for anything. On Tue, Jun 21, 2016, at 09:42 PM, Stestagg wrote: > Hi! > > I have a micro:bit and would love to help in any way possible. > > Feel free to get in touch if you would like to

Re: [python-uk] Coding "Bootcamps"

2016-05-18 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On Wed, May 18, 2016, at 04:11 PM, Andy Robinson wrote: > Although Google did recently hire a philosopher, I believe... On the subject of coding philosophers, the main author of the document conversion tool Pandoc is the chair of the UC Berkeley philosophy department. It's written in Haskell, whic

[python-uk] New Southampton PUG: talk about Matplotlib 2.0, Thursday 19th May

2016-05-11 Thread Thomas Kluyver
Hi all, We are starting up a Python User Group in Southampton. Next Thursday, the 19th of May, we'll have core Matplotlib developer Jens Nielsen talking to us about Matplotlib 2.0. Python's most popular plotting library is getting a major overhaul of its default plot styles. The new 'viridis' colo