October meetup minutes
After long time we were back at IMSc venue Alladi Ramakrishnan hall.Initially we were only four people at the venue.I had a fear of not getting audience already.
We waited till 3:15 PM after that hall got filled in 5 minutes.I got relieved and happy that people joined.
First talk was by Shrayas
He gave concise talk which explained
1. Using llm locally instead of sending your data to the cloud.
2. He used ollama locally to classify spam mail.
3. He gave his gmail content as input to ollama to keep or delete mail.
4. By which he is able to delete all spam mails.
Second talk was by Arthi
She gave a talk on how she used neural networks and image processing to find lung cancer from CT image.
1. She explained about neural networks and how it is useful.
2. She showed a demo to find lung cancer using CT image.
3. She plotted charts for accuracy of each find.
Discussion before Tea
Mean while there was a question about how to train new images from the audience.
An excellent discussion was triggered from where Arthi finished her talk.
Abinav Ravi went deep on some of the use cases in medical field and it is not accepted for production because regulators asking for 99.9 % accuracy.
Networking tea break
We had a 30 mins break
Few people asked me for water. I really forgot the location. Then eventually some of them find out and told me that water is placed near the dead end of the corridor.
Next time we will correct this.
Ok Move on to the last talk.
First Lightning talk was by Abinav Ravi
This talk he gave a good insight on Rev and UV and how it can be used to fasten the docker build. He showed the performances of the various tools.
Second Lightning talk was by Rengaraj
I want to give an intro to Python. There were two people are new to python.
I showed them few examples like how python is really useful in getting started and a good first programming language.
I also told them my story of getting in to programming world to give them some confidence to get started.
Closing notes by Rengaraj
1. Thanked everyone to come forward to attend the meetup
2. Thanks to the speakers
3. Thanked IMSc and Prof. Amritanshu Prasad for the venue arrangements
4. Arthi suggested to using Instagram, Shrayas also insisted to have Instagram. I to agree it is good to have an Instagram account. The question is given the bandwidth of volunteers time is it really possible to engage people in multiple platform.
5. There are few people suggested to have list of topics can be discussed at chennaipy for upcoming meetups.
6. We asked them to send the topics they want to hear to chennaipy@python.org