Thank you Rengaraj for the amazing meetup. Would it be possible for you to share the photos?
Regards, Shiv Katira shivkat...@gmail.com On Sat, 24 May, 2025, 22:35 Rengaraj D via Chennaipy, <chennaipy@python.org> wrote: > # Meeting Minutes May 2025 > > We started at 3:15 PM since we waited for people to join. > We had around 30 attendees. > We started with introductions; we had a lot of first-time attendees. > > ## First Talk > ### Elasticsearch > > Madhav Kumar went in-depth into Elasticsearch internals. > He explained various techniques used in search to tokenize words. > He spoke about tokenizers and how they work: > - N-gram > - Edge N-gram > He also ran some demos. > > ### Build, Dissect Packets > > Rengaraj started with an introduction to the Scapy framework. > - He had a spelling mistake in the title. > - He compared the OSI layer with Scapy APIs. > - He went on to create IP layer packets. > - He went on to explain how to stack layers of a packet: > Eth/IP/UDP or TCP/DNS > - He created packets and sent them over the network. > > ### Networking Tea Break > > Before the tea break, we called for volunteers to introduce themselves and > share > their areas of expertise to enable meaningful networking during the break. > > ### Optimizing Python: From Slow to Go > > Guru gave an excellent talk on how we can improve Python processing time > when using: > - Threads > - Multiprocessing > - Concurrency > - asyncio > - subinterpreters > > An important takeaway is that subinterpreters—something I had never heard > of— > have been in Python since version 1.5. > > ## Lightning Talks > > * Abhishek started by showing various AI model performances and left us > with > the question: when an AI model reaches 100% accuracy, what is going to > happen? > > * Vijay gave a talk on Sentence Transformers, which he learned about while > prototyping > an AI-based voice control system (I think). > - He showed how words are clustered. > - He showed how sentences can be clustered. > During Vijay's talk, I thought: it’s a steep learning curve. > > * Shreyas gave a talk on how he used AI as a partner rather than just a > Q&A tool. > He showed a structured one-page prompt designed so that AI asks > questions instead > of only responding to human prompts. This way, AI becomes a partner > rather than a threat. > > # Thanks > > With that, the Chennaipy May meetup concluded. > Rengaraj thanked: > - All the volunteers behind the scenes > - IMSc and Prof. Amirtanshu for the venue and continued support > - All the speakers > - The timekeeper > > We finally took a group photo. I saw a lot of people hadn't left the > campus until 6 PM. > They were discussing things all the way until they exited the gate. > _______________________________________________ > Chennaipy mailing list -- chennaipy@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to chennaipy-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/chennaipy.python.org > Member address: shivkat...@gmail.com >
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