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works of Christopher Ariza
Talks
I have given presentations at numerous national and international conferences, both in music and software engineering.
Featured Talks
This talk will get you started with multi-threaded data processing in free-threaded Python.
Getting Started with Free-Threaded Python Using NumPy
PyBay 2026
This talk explores the strange relationship of static typing in Python.
The Paradox of Statically Typed Python and Polymorphic C
PyBeach USA 2025
TypeVarTuple is novel typing construct in Python.
Elastic Generics: Flexible Static Typing with TypeVarTuple and Unpack
PyCon USA 2025
All Talks
Getting Started with Free-Threaded Python Using NumPy
PyBay 2026
Black Hat Arsenal: fetter
Black Hat 2026
Why Installing Python Packages Is Still a Security Risk
PyTexas 2026
The Paradox of Statically Typed Python and Polymorphic C
PyBeach USA 2025
Elastic Generics: Flexible Static Typing with TypeVarTuple and Unpack
PyCon USA 2025
Out-Performing NumPy is Hard: When and How to Try with Your Own C-Extensions
SciPy 2023
Building NumPy Arrays from CSV Files, Faster than Pandas
PyCon USA 2023
Employing NumPy's NPY Format for Faster-Than-Parquet DataFrame Serialization
PyCon USA 2022
Why Datetimes Need Units: Avoiding a Y2262 Problem & Harnessing the Power of NumPy's datetime64
PyData Global 2021
The Best Defense is not a Defensive Copy (lightning talk starting at 18:25)
PyData LA 2019
Fitting Many Dimensions into One The Promise of Hierarchical Indices for Data Beyond Two Dimensions
PyData LA 2019
A Less Kind, Less Gentle DataFrame (lightning talk starting at 53:00)
PyCon USA 2019
StaticFrame, like Pandas but safer
TalkPython['Podcast'] 2019
StaticFrame: An Immutable Alternative to Pandas
PyData LA 2018