Lightning Talks - Friday, May 16th
summary
Rapid five minute reports: lightning talk tips and a beginner Humble Data workshop; a web app to catalog conference freebies at swag.dev; archery coaching using OpenCV plus Meta pose models to align centroids; a goat gif that repeatedly breaks a small Wagtail site on a 512 MB droplet because animated GIF handling and frame rates overload image processing; home solar production ~6.56 MWh vs NASA radiance predicts ~6.3 MWh; stenographic captioning demos; 20 years of RAWS data with LSTM forecasts for fire weather; os.fork is unsafe with threads and causes deadlocks; remember to close your gzip files.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 2:05Rodrigo Girão Serrão - Meta lightning talk
- 7:15Laís Carvalho - Join Humble Data!
- 10:05Cheuk Ting Ho - Too many swags!! Let's review the swags so we know who's giving us good stuff
- 14:40Quang Vu - Enhancing My Archery Practice with Computer Vision
- 18:55Meagen Voss - Maaah! How I Killed My Site with a Goat Gif
- 24:25Will Lachance - How much energy will my solar panels produce?
- 29:10Amanda Lundberg - Captioner is Human
- 33:55Thomas Weiss - Predicting Fire Weather Using Historical RAWS Data
- 38:25Tom Rutherford - The power and danger of os.fork
- 42:45Cody Maloney - Remember to .close() file-like objects
- 47:25Anthony Shaw - CSnakes: Python in .NET
- 52:55Trey Hunner - Systems, gates, and rage








