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Keynote announcement for PyCon Finland 2025: "Muuttolintujen Kevät - Automatic Bird Sound Classifier" by Patrik Lauha from the University of Helsinki! ☀️ 🦉 🎤

Discover how an innovative convolutional neural network, trained in Python with TensorFlow, identifies vocalisations from 263 Finnish bird species, using over 14 million recordings containing 37 million bird observations collected by citizen scientists.

2025.ploneconf.org/news/keynot

Y'all shouldn't allow me to be stimulated by #Python, friends, & amazing talks for 3 days straight. It gets gears moving too much, and then I become an idea faerie, and nobody really likes those too much.

Anyway...

Why don't we see #art contests or galleries at #PyConUS (& other #PyCon conferences)?

There are SO MANY amazing #Artists in the #Python community, and a screen intended for slideshows (or even a poster) does not really give them an effective way to share what they've created.

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May as well throw this query out to the fediverse.

I am looking for *concrete examples* of code that works correctly when interpreted by Python 2.7 but *silently produces incorrect output* when interpreted by Python 3.x. I encountered such a thing about 10 years ago but didn't save it and have been unable to reconstruct it.

All examples are good, but examples that produce output from which it's difficult or impossible to recover the correct output are better.

Have you ever been annoyed by some Python code not stopping immediately when you press control-C? It's a common problem in scientific computing because of bugs in many of the compiled-code "extension modules" that accelerate this use of Python.

I gave a talk today at #PyCon about what needs to happen to get those bugs fixed. I'm told a video will be available within a few days, but already you can see my slides and detailed notes at <research.owlfolio.org/pubs/202>.

research.owlfolio.orgWriting Extension Modules to be Interruptible