Podcasts about iterates

K-means & Vector Databases: The Core ConnectionFundamental SimilaritySame mathematical foundation – both measure distances between points in spaceK-means groups points based on closenessVector DBs find points closest to your queryBoth convert real things into number coordinatesThe "team captain" concept works for bothK-means: Captains are centroids that lead teams of similar pointsVector DBs: Often use similar "representative points" to organize search spaceBoth try to minimize expensive distance calculationsHow They WorkSpatial thinking is key to bothTurn objects into coordinates (height/weight/age → x/y/z points)Closer points = more similar itemsBoth handle many dimensions (10s, 100s, or 1000s)Distance measurement is the core operationBoth calculate how far points are from each otherBoth can use different types of distance (straight-line, cosine, etc.)Speed comes from smart organization of pointsMain DifferencesPurpose varies slightlyK-means: "Put these into groups"Vector DBs: "Find what's most like this"Query behavior differsK-means: Iterates until stable groups formVector DBs: Uses pre-organized data for instant answersReal-World ExamplesEveryday applications"Similar products" on shopping sites"Recommended songs" on music apps"People you may know" on social mediaWhy they're powerfulTurn hard-to-compare things (movies, songs, products) into comparable numbersFind patterns humans might missWork well with huge amounts of dataTechnical ConnectionVector DBs often use K-means internallyMany use K-means to organize their search spaceSimilar optimization strategiesBoth are about organizing multi-dimensional space efficientlyExpert KnowledgeBoth need human expertiseComputers find patterns but don't understand meaningExperts needed to interpret results and design spacesDomain knowledge helps explain why things are grouped together

I sort of feel like this guest needs no introduction, but that may be because, for me, she's such a powerful influence on thinking around affect, obviously, but also feminist politics, anticolonial resistance, the consequences of representation and misrepresentation. For people that don't know who she is, Sara Ahmed is the author of many widely read texts, from Queer Phenomenology, to Living a Feminist Life and The Cultural Politics of Emotion, to What's the Use? On the Uses of Use, to now, most recently, The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way. The new book is an interesting experiment in an author thinking back through her work and theorizing the particular structuring principles that guided it, the core values, concepts and characteristic expressions that give it form. There is a fair bit of conversation in this interview about terms, specifically the term “kill,” for example, in “killjoy”--the extremity of the word and the kind of work that does. I also ask Ahmed about the inclusion of personal reflection in The Feminist Killjoy Handbook and we talk about the false distinction that gets made between the practice of “theory” and the lived experience of the theorist. I appreciated how open Sara was about her foundational sense of the value of killjoy solidarity, even as it is becoming frighteningly clear that this solidarity is required for all the wrong reasons: because rights are being rolled back, because oppression is intensifying and the vindictive forces of sexism and racism are differently emboldened today. There is even a discussion, here, of this seemingly novel, but actually quite old, concept of “cancel culture.” Ahmed explains why she is a “Roxane Gay superfan,” where she thinks the attacks on wokeness are coming from, and how they can be countered. I was most heartened maybe by her expression of killjoy solidarity with the movements for trans lives and for alleviation of the climate crisis. These are seemingly very different struggles, but in both instances there is a normative power to business as usual that is making life very dangerous for people at the margins.

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Watch the live stream: Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training pytest book Patreon Supporters Special guest: Annette Lewis Brian #1: Sphinx Themes Gallery update Curated and maintained by @pradyunsg and @shirou. I actually don’t know what it looked like before, but this is great. I’m working on my first real Sphinx project, so this is awesome to have. Features: Main image for each theme shows what theme looks like in wide, narrow, and phone layout Demos (click on an image): Main page that shows you quick start: install and config theme name Link to theme documentation Example of Navigation Kitchen sink paragraph level markup including inline, math, meta, blocks, code with sidebars, references, directives, footnotes, and more API documentation example essential if you are using this for documenting code Lists and tables Michael #2: Mongita - Like SQLite but for MongoDB Mongita is a lightweight embedded document database that implements a commonly-used subset of the MongoDB/PyMongo interface. Instead of being a server, Mongita is a self-contained Python library Mongita can be configured to store its documents either on disk or in memory. This is a great project to contribute to as a new open source person, details. Uses: Embedded database: Mongita is a good alternative to SQLite for embedded applications when a document database makes more sense than a relational one. Unit testing: Mocking PyMongo/MongoDB is a pain. Worse, mocking can hide real bugs. By monkey-patching PyMongo with Mongita, unit tests can be more faithful while remaining isolated. Limited dependencies: Mongita runs anywhere that Python runs. Currently the only dependencies are pymongo (for bson) and sortedcontainers (for faster indexes). Annette #3: World Plone Day 2021 - Over 50 Videos from 16 Countries World Plone Day was 24-hour online streaming event held on April 28th 2021. Plone open-source Content Management system, written in Python and built on top of the Zope web framework Plone community produced 56 videos totaling 22 hours of content. More than 50 speakers from 16 countries, 11 languages. All available on Youtube - World Plone Day 2021 playlist Variety of content categories: General Interest Technical Talks Case Studies Plone 6 Plone 6 introduction How does Plone 6 work under the hood? Getting Started with Volto Customization Brian #4: The social contract of open source : view every commit as a gift Brett Cannon Interesting thoughts on what “contract” and what relationship exists between maintainer and user. Great analogy of a stack of USB drives with source code on front lawn with a “FREE” sign. Come by and pick up the latest release whenever you want No guarantee at all Each new version is a gift that you can accept or not Receiver of gift should NOT: knock on front door and yell at developer Leave an angry letter in the mailbox Stand in middle of street in town yelling about how much they hate the software or how much of an idiot the developer is Quote from Immanuel Kant: “Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.” Brett: “… when you treat a maintainer as a fellow human being who may be able to do you a favor of their own volition, then you end up in an appropriate relationship where you are not trying to use the maintainer for something specific. Summary: “Every commit of open source code should be viewed as an independent gift from the maintainer that they happened to leave on their front yard for others to enjoy if they so desire; treating them as a means to and for their open source code is unethical.” Michael #5: PyPI in a box via Jared Chung Connectivity is still a challenge in many countries, especially Africa Vuyisile Ndlovu created PyPI in a Box. Post PyCon Africa, in the conference slack group, attendees shared the most common problems across the continent, and the state of internet connectivity was the overwhelming response. Vuyisile also references putting “StackOverflow in a box” but the article doesn’t lay out how to do it. Annette #6: Film simulations from scratch using Python by Kevin Martin Jose Implementing applying CLUTs (Color Look up table) to an image with Python Opens the Image with PIL then converts it into numpy array Iterates through all the pixels values and assigns it to LUT color cell Returns the filtered Image from the array Extras Michael Talked about HTMX, Akira K. pointed out Hyperscript as a companion. Careful, it’s super new. Dask course is out: https://twitter.com/TalkPython/status/1389382566965178375 FastAPI bundle fund raiser with testdriven.io Python 3.10b1 is out Microsoft becomes 3rd PSF Visionary Sponsor, joining Bloomberg and Google (via PyCoders) Annette Python Web Conf 2022 March 21-25, 2022 The Call for Papers is now open: https://www.papercall.io/pwc-2022 Joke A developer-focused keyboard (graphic)

"Follow your passion" is a common phrase people say when it comes to pursuing a new role. That's all well and good, but how does that translate when you feel that your passion has nothing to do with technology? Alli Goldberg, today's featured Empjoyee makes it clear that there really can be an intersection between what you love and technology. And if you're having a hard time finding it out there already, then you can create the future you want for yourself. Alli and her friend Jen Jamula co-founded Blogologues.org, a comedy organization focused on the intersection of theater and technology. Enjoy! Listen now to learn how Alli: Continues to explore the juxtaposition of arts and tech through new mediums Acts on ideas and "books the theater" to transform that idea into reality in a matter of weeks Iterates on models to scale a business centered on bringing people together to experience tech Get your hands on the full episode notes over at https://empjoyment.com/14 From Insight to Action Alli encourages us to "book the theater", which generally means to commit to the #1 action that imposes a deadline make progress in a tangible external way (i.e. thinking "I'll do X by Y." is not enough). When Jen and Alli had the idea to act out the internet, physically booking the theater locked them into the decision and got them to take a fun idea into a hilarious reality. Now it's your turn. Your Joyney: Share with us one idea, project, or outcome that you've been wanting to accomplish and what you plan to do this month to "book the theater" within the Empjoyment Community. Getting to Know Today's Featured Empjoyee: Alli Goldberg! Allison Goldberg is Yale graduate and a co-creator / producer of Blogologues, a sketch comedy show in which internet content is performed live and verbatim. Blogologues has been featured in Newsweek, The Daily Beast, CBS, The Huffington Post, NPR and more. She is also one of the co-creative directors of GoldJam Creative, an organization dedicated to exploring the influence of the Information Age on communication, and to bringing comedy and creativity to the workplace. Through GoldJam Creatiive, Alli has leads communication skills workshops for companies, co-working spaces, incubators and student groups as varied as Buzzfeed, Time Warner, Spotify, has created content for brands such as The Guardian and Time Out New York, and has spoken and performed at conferences nationwide, including SXSW, Internet Week, and TheLi.st Summit.  

Ways of creating a mathematical spiral.

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Ways of creating a mathematical spiral.

Transcript -- Ways of creating a mathematical spiral.