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Python talk night at City University Seattle (Belltown)

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City University of Seattle · Seattle

Join us for an exciting talk night at City University of Seattle's Belltown Campus! **Agenda:** 5:30-6pm: Doors open/networking 6-6:10pm: Opening remarks 6:10-6:35pm: Talk #1 6:35-6:50pm: Intermissio…

Python talk night at City University Seattle (Belltown)photo: Meetup
When
PDT
Where
City University of Seattle521 Wall Street, Seattle, WA
Free

When and where

Date and time
PDT — local Seattle time
Location
City University of Seattle521 Wall Street, Seattle, WASeattle

About this event

Join us for an exciting talk night at City University of Seattle's Belltown Campus!

**Agenda:**

5:30-6pm: Doors open/networking

6-6:10pm: Opening remarks

6:10-6:35pm: Talk #1

6:35-6:50pm: Intermission

6:50-7:05pm: Lightning talk

7:05-7:30pm: Talk #2

7:30pm-8pm: Networking

After party to follow at Teku Tavern (552 Denny Way, Seattle, WA 98109)

**What we'll do:**

This event will feature the following presentations:

Talk #1: The Beautiful Improbability of the Real

Speaker: Matt Drury

Description: Simple coinflip games are proving grounds for our intuition about the nature of random events and govern conclusions we can responsibility draw from data. In this talk we describe the Arcsine Laws, which were described evocatively by William Feller as: > unexpected [and] come as a shock to intuition and common sense. They will reveal that commonly accepted notions concerning chance fluctuations are without foundation and that the implications of the law of large numbers are widely misconstrue

Official details

Price:
Free
Organizer:
Puget Sound Programming Python (PuPPy)
Listing source:
Meetup

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