Hi all! We're looking forward to our second Python meetup for 2018 next week, on Monday 5 March. We have three talks planned:
*1. Fred Rotbart: Hierarchical Temporal Memory in Python, part 2* (30-45 minutes) Fred will give a refresher (for those who missed his talk in February) and then pick up where he left off last time, with various fancy demos of what's possible with Hierarchical Temporal Memory for learning patterns powerfully from small(ish) datasets. *2. Adel Fazel: Web data wrangling for beginners* (20 minutes) Adel will give an introductory talk about using Python for data wrangling, accessing web APIs, parsing JSON data, and manipulating it with Pandas. He will demonstrate this by accessing the New York Times API. *3. Ed Schofield: AlphaZero - background, how it works, and a general Python implementation *(20 minutes) AlphaZero is a major recent advance in self-play-based reinforcement learning from DeepMind that can learn complex 2-player strategy games like Go and Chess from scratch (with no human knowledge) and quickly surpass human capabilities. Ed will review the algorithm, how it works, what its future applications could be, and a general-purpose Python package for implementing it. *4. Announcements and pizza* *When:* 5.45pm for mingling; talks from 6pm to 7.30pm *Where: *Outcome-Hub Co-Working Space, Suite 1, 121 Cardigan Street, Carlton *How to get there: *Walk 12 minutes north from Melbourne Central station. *Afterwards:* drinks on Lygon Street *Sponsorship:* many thanks to Outcome Hub for providing the venue and Python Charmers for ongoing sponsorship. *RSVP:* Please respond on Meetup.com so we can track numbers: https://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-Python-Meetup-Group/ We hope to see you there! :-D *Next meeting: *our next meeting will be on Monday 7 May 2018. (We'll skip April because of Easter.) We're still looking for speakers for May and beyond, so please get in contact if you'd like to speak! Best wishes, Ed -- Dr. Edward Schofield Python Charmers http://pythoncharmers.com
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