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April Python Pune Meetup 2017 |
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The April PythonPune Meetup was held on 30th April at Red Hat, Pune. The meetup was scheduled at 10:30 am and by the time it was 11 am it was house full! and about 70 attendees were present at the meetup.
- All about virtualenv - by Poruri Sai Rahul
- Deep Learning using Keras - by Prakash Anand
- Game Theory and Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma - by Sourav Sing
- Introduction to Ansible - by Abhijeet Kasurde
The first talk of the meetup was presented by Poruri Sai Rahul and he spoke about:
- What is a virtual environment?
- How to set up a virtual environment using Python virtualenv?
- What is the importance of virtualenv?
- How important is the placement of the virtualenv folder?
The talk was an interactive one and many questions were asked like :
- What is the difference between a stand-alone program and a virtual environment?
- Is Docker a substitute for virtual environments?
The slides to Poruri Sai Rahul talk are present here.
The second talk of the meetup was presented by Prakash Anand and he spoke about:
- What is deep learning?
- The importance of deep learning.
- What is the difference between deep Learning and machine learning?
- Basics of Keras.
- Deep learning using Keras.
The third talk of the meetup was presented by Sourav Sing and he spoke about:
- What is game theory?
- What is Prisoner's Dilemma?
- What is payoff matrix?
- Also, he gave a demo session in which many graphs were simulated using IPD in Python.
The slides to Sourav Sing's talk are present here.
The last talk of the meetup was presented by Abhijeet Kasurde and he spoke about:
- Introduction to Devops.
- Introduction to Ansible.
- Why is Ansible better than other configuration management tools?
- He spoke extensively about provisioning, configuration management and application continuous delivery.
The meetup was very informative and interactive. Not to forget we were served with tasty food also. I would like to thank the organizers of the meetup for arranging such events where we always get to learn something new.