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Day 3

3 Lessons Data Scientists Can Learn from World War II

A very fun and entertaining final day keynote from Alon Nir.

Featuring:

  • Florida man
  • Matthew effect
  • Norden bombsight
  • Survival bias
  • Flaw of averages

Talk link: https://pretalx.com/pyconuk-2023/talk/LMD9DT/

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXGQBB_RFec

GitHub link: https://github.com/alonnir/Keynote-PyCon-UK-2023

Slides link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lKhxWnoBwUawQR25UkhkbHryBSnBtO8bRBCfyZJfjh4/edit

Previous: PyCon UK 2018

Monte Carlo Simulations for Testing Tabletop Games

A hands-on workshop for understanding Monte-Carlo, and how to apply it to various situations.

Code repo: https://github.com/Drakekin/project-jupiter

Talk link: https://pretalx.com/pyconuk-2023/talk/DWJLMJ/

The Magic of Self: How Python inserts self into methods

Good intro to how Python descriptors (like self) work under the hood.

Talk link: https://pretalx.com/pyconuk-2023/talk/UKND3F/

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNM91G41m3c

Fear the mutants. Love the mutants.

A gentle canter through the use of mutation testing with Henry the penguin (well, Max K), and perhaps where not to use it.

Libraries:

Talk link: https://pretalx.com/pyconuk-2023/talk/D8ZCWV/

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gl_Brl4GVI

The programmer's imagination

Daniele talks to us about imagination, and how we've lost it over the last 40 years. How can we reclaim it?

Talk link: https://pretalx.com/pyconuk-2023/talk/ULFP8G/

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25onRvaR3MA

Well well. ML is not the answer to everything.

A talk about how machine learning couldn't out perform a properly built expert system.

Talk link: https://pretalx.com/pyconuk-2023/talk/ZKBTPU/

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNY0FBICi4w

Github link: https://github.com/JavaRip/UoP-SoftEng-Dissertation and https://github.com/JavaRip/iArsenic-fyp

Interactive demo: https://github.com/JavaRip/pycon23-interactive