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September meetup at Headspace

Speakers

  • Chris Morales: "Unit Test Coverage Tool, Your Friendly Neighborhood Illusionist"

    We all seen that "100% green badge" and celebrated victory. But what does coverage really mean and can you trust it?

    Takeaways from this talk:

    • Different types of provable coverage such as line coverage, statement coverage, branch coverage.
    • Code bits for which coverage is really hard and how to document it.
    • Different strategies for unittesting that can produce clear data with documented pit falls.

  • Nathan Lomeli : "Natural Language Processing: Parsing Through The Hype with Python"

    We've heard a lot about natural language tools and interfaces over the past several years--Google's Translate, IBM's Watson, Apple's Siri--but what's the true state of the art once we've parsed the fine print and extracted the key ideas?

    Takeaways from this talk:

    • Natural language understanding remains a monumental challenge because computers typically lack the situational context and world knowledge necessary to make sense of writing and speech.
    • Despite the hype about big data driven machine learning techniques, these challenges have not been meaningfully addressed by new technologies.
    • There are, however, a handful of interesting (and even useful) tasks that NLP technology is currently capable of tackling effectively.
    • spaCy and NLTK are two Python libraries suitable for meeting common NLP needs.

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