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365 Data Science’s Data Science and AI courses are free until November 21st!

If you can carve out a little free time every day between now and November 21st, you’ve got the opportunity to take every data science and AI course offered by 365 Data Science for free — and really free, as in they won’t ask you to enter your credit card number.

  • Need to learn basic or intermediate Python? They’ve got you covered.
  • Want to get up to speed with Pandas or Numpy? They’ve got courses for that?
  • Gearing to up get hardcore and learn the mathematics behind machine learning? There’s a linear algebra course, as well as courses for probability and statistics.

I’m quite sure that the hope is that you’ll start some courses, not be able to finish them by the 21st, and then shell out money to continue. They may even have some Black Friday specials happening around that time to entice you to hand over your credit card number.

But what if you put in the time during the free period and really dug in? You might be able to learn a lot of free.

I’m in the middle of a couple of their math courses, and they’re pretty good. Check them out!

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Conferences Programming

PyCon US 2025 has just been announced!

PyCon US 2025 — the big Python conference — is taking place at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the following dates from Wednesday, May 14 through Thursday, May 22, 2025!

Here’s the breakdown of that schedule:

Dates What’s happening
Wednesday, May 14 – Thursday, May 15 Tutorials
Thursday, May 15 Sponsor Presentations
Friday, May 16 – Sunday, May, 18 Main Conference Days—Keynotes, Talks, Charlas, Expo Hall, and more
Monday, May 19 – Thursday, May 22 Sprints

The PyCon US 2025 site is now live, and the call for proposals is officially open! You can submit proposals for:

  • Talks
  • Tutorials
  • Posters
  • Charlas

The deadline to submit proposals all tracks is Thursday, December 19, 2024 at 11:59 PM ET (UTC-5). They’ve set up a “Call for Proposals Countdown” so you can view  how much time you have left to submit, and see what the deadline is in your local timezone. You can find out more about proposals on their Proposal Guidelines page.

You can also find out more about the conference in the announcement post on the PyCon US blog.

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Humor Programming

Happy Halloween!

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Artificial Intelligence Programming

Humble Bundle’s “Complete Learn to Code Python and ML” megabundle

Want to learn a lot about Python, whether you’re brand new to the language, or a long-timer? Humble Bundle’s The Complete Learn to Code Python and ML Megabundle might be just what you’re looking for, costs only US$25 for the full set, and is available for another 7 days (at the time of writing — 1:40 p.m. on Monday, October 28, 2024)!

$25 gets you 45 items, all of which are pictured in this post. Some of these items are complete tutorials, while others are simply collections of sample code. I decided to YOLO and simply buy the whole thing.

I’m going to sift through the offerings and write about them over the week here. Watch this blog!

A portion of the proceeds from sales of the megabundle will go towards Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, so you’ll be getting some useful Python info and helping a good cause at the same time.

Check out the megabundle at Humble Bundle!

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Humor Programming

The best comment on API design you’ll see today

I get that for non-programmers to get the joke, the argument for setHealth() had to be the string "100%" and not the floating-point value 1.0, but Ars Heitiya’s comment made me laugh more than the original comic piece.

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Artificial Intelligence Humor Programming

A little reassurance

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NEW VIDEO: “The CrowdStrike Outage Explained”

The latest video on the Global Nerdy YouTube channel is The CrowdStrike Outage Explained!

How did the CrowdStrike Bug of July 19, 2024 take down 8.5 million Windows systems and cause the biggest global outage of all time? I’ll explain in this video, where you’ll also learn about operating systems, the kernel, device drivers, and more!