Three weeks left to propose talks and tutorials for #PyData #Virginia 2025!
The #conference is happening April 18-19 in Charlottesville, Virginia, and we’re inviting community members to submit proposals for both talks and tutorials. The submission deadline for the #CFP is February 10.
All selected speakers will receive a *free ticket* to the conference, granting full access to talks, workshops, and networking opportunities.
For more information: https://pydata.org/virginia2025
Tipoff from @kw217: Kazakhstan, which has not observed daylight saving for 20 years, is turning the clocks back at 0:00 on 1 March 2024, to 23:00 on leap day February 29 2024.
Definitely playing time zones on Hard Mode, Kazakhstan. Thanks for doing some QA on stacked edge cases for us all!
No matter how far you zoom in it's all sharp corners. Any finite stretch along the x-axis becomes a terrible mouth lined with infinite teeth, every pointed sliver opens up into a thousand little razors.
Mathematicians were aghast.
Fun fact about Microsoft #Windows: if you type Ctrl-Shift-Alt-Win-L, LinkedIn will open in your default browser. This is an OS hotkey that cannot be turned off.
I know this reads like a joke but it isn't.
society: damn misinfo at scale is getting a bit out of hand lately. seems like a problem.
tech guys: i have invented a machine that generates misinformation. is that helpful?
A lot of senior engineers loathe YAML. This piece describes a few pain points. (But skips the document-delimiter problem.)
https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-from-hell
PyData Pittsburgh
Deborah Pickett
Robert McNees
M. Verdone
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Patrick Curry
Anthony Floyd
Tim Bray