Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
(Jack Reichelt) "What's the last common ancestor of a bear and a weasel?"
"Which animals are more related to pigs than cows?"
"Are birds reptiles?"
"Am I a fish?"
With a recent interest in phylogeny – the science of evolution, diversification, and speciation – these are the kinds of questions I've been asking myself. I wanted to find a tool that would let me examine the relationships between species and find the answers to these questions, but, as I looked around I couldn't find anything that did what I wanted. So I made it myself.
Come with me as I share my journey that led me to talk to some of Australia's top scientists, give up on talking to other top scientists, and accidentally stumble my way into making an actual contribution to science. Learn why I made this tool, how I made this tool, what stage it's at, and where you can use it yourself. And maybe learn some things about life on Earth along the way.
Oh, and to answer the questions above: dog-bears, peccaries, yes, and yes!
pretalx.com/pycon-au-2024/talk/YNDDJR
python, pycon, australia, programming, conference, technical, developers, panel, sessions, libraries, frameworks, community, sysadmins, students, education, data, science
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PyCon AU is the national conference for the Python programming community, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers, sysadmins and operations folk, students, educators, scientists, statisticians, and many others besides, all with a love for working with Python.
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Produced by Next Day Video Australia: https://nextdayvideo.com.au
Sat Nov 23 14:50:00 2024 at Eureka 2
(Jack Reichelt) "What's the last common ancestor of a bear and a weasel?"
"Which animals are more related to pigs than cows?"
"Are birds reptiles?"
"Am I a fish?"
With a recent interest in phylogeny – the science of evolution, diversification, and speciation – these are the kinds of questions I've been asking myself. I wanted to find a tool that would let me examine the relationships between species and find the answers to these questions, but, as I looked around I couldn't find anything that did what I wanted. So I made it myself.
Come with me as I share my journey that led me to talk to some of Australia's top scientists, give up on talking to other top scientists, and accidentally stumble my way into making an actual contribution to science. Learn why I made this tool, how I made this tool, what stage it's at, and where you can use it yourself. And maybe learn some things about life on Earth along the way.
Oh, and to answer the questions above: dog-bears, peccaries, yes, and yes!
pretalx.com/pycon-au-2024/talk/YNDDJR
python, pycon, australia, programming, conference, technical, developers, panel, sessions, libraries, frameworks, community, sysadmins, students, education, data, science
Videos licensed as CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0
PyCon AU is the national conference for the Python programming community, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers, sysadmins and operations folk, students, educators, scientists, statisticians, and many others besides, all with a love for working with Python.
Licensed as CC BY-NC-SA - creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Produced by Next Day Video Australia: https://nextdayvideo.com.au
Sat Nov 23 14:50:00 2024 at Eureka 2
