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+/resume.html
+/zombie_protagonist/
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 /bayes-presentation.html
 /your-own-bayes/
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 /talks/ml-primer/
 /svm-lightning/
 /talks/profile-cprofile/
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talks.md

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 title: Talks and Presentations
 ---
 
-I've only recently revived my website, and this part isn't properly
-populated yet.
+I've given a number of talks at conferences and other meetups over the
+years. Here are some of the materials for a few of them. My
+presentations tend to be less slide-dependent than some, so these
+materials are not guaranteed to be useful. If you're certain I've
+given a talk which you don't see here, but want access to the
+materials, let me know -- I may have them, I may not.
+
+  - I've given several talks (some multiple times) on machine learning:
+
+    - Earlier this century, bayesian classifiers were all the rage. I
+      gave a talk at a few BarCamps [explaining Bayes'
+      Theorem](talks/bayes_theorem/) (an old S5 presentation, so
+      functionality not guaranteed).
+
+    - Another popular talk was "[Write your own Bayesian
+      Classifier!](talks/your-own-bayes/)", which I'm ashamed to say I
+      sometimes tried to do in a 30-minute slot.
+
+    - I've given [a brief survey](talks/ml-primer) on machine
+      learning concepts and techniques.
+
+    - I once gave a [lightning talk about SVMs](talks/svm-lightning/).
+
+  - I've given several talks on PostgreSQL. Most talks I've collected
+    here have videos of the presentations, rather than slides. The
+    quality of the videos varies, sorry.
+
+    - A few years back I gave a talk on [using postgres_fdw to
+      federate queries](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ1eqzOeIg0).
+
+    - I did a bit of a [deep dive into postgres
+      partitions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl3FXv8uBUo).
+
+    - A while back, I gave a talk about the current state of [using
+      postgres in cloud
+      environments](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fIhhn74mtA). Cloud
+      environments have changed significantly in the intervening time,
+      so I can no longer stand by my recommendations in this talk.
+
+    - For the local PUG, I gave a somewhat tongue-in-cheek talk about
+      [two locking problems I had
+      encountered](talks/locking_war_stories/).
+
+  - I've given a number of other talks, some for local python user
+    groups, some about other dynamic language issues. For a while, the
+    Portland Python User Group had a "module of the month"
+    feature. Here are two that I presented:
+
+    - A comparison of [profile and cProfile](talks/profile-cprofile/)
+
+    - A brief overview of the [multiprocessing
+      library](talks/multiprocessing)
+