This document provides an overview of parish finance topics for churchwardens, including:
- The legal status of parishes under provincial and diocesan law and as registered charities.
- Filing requirements for annual returns to maintain charitable status and avoid penalties.
- Guidelines for financial statements, audits, and levels of assurance.
- Processes for managing funds held in trust for the parish, including the Consolidated Trust Fund and Cemetery Fund.
- Requirements for record keeping of donations, receipts, financial records, and payroll.
Centrecom employs experienced agents to conduct surveys for clients. Their agents are highly skilled in conducting consumer goods, insurance, and political surveys. Centrecom can handle entire data collection projects, supplying clients with quality quantitative and qualitative research data and ensuring projects are completed on time and to the client's satisfaction.
This document summarizes Mr. Cantlie's upcoming climb of Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise money for BC Children's Hospital. It provides background on Summits of Hope, an organization that fundraises for the hospital. It describes Mr. Cantlie's goals for the climb and ways for students to support or follow his journey up Africa's highest peak.
The document summarizes an executive MBA program offered by the University of Hull Business School in partnership with MDCI. The 2-year part-time program is delivered in Muscat and provides internationally recognized qualifications without requiring students to take a career break. The program includes 13 modules delivered over weekends in Muscat by UK faculty along with a research project. It offers the latest business knowledge and skills to benefit organizations and support students' professional and personal goals.
The Samsung Guru200 is a basic mobile phone with a 1.3 MP camera, 20MB of internal memory, GPRS connectivity, Bluetooth, and an FM radio. It has a 220x220 pixel display, supports MP3/AAC playback, and has a talk time of up to 3.5 hours and standby time of up to 250 hours. Additional features include polyphonic ringtones and a digital zoom camera.
The document outlines the key elements and design of a magazine, including the masthead, cover lines, page numbers, headings, pull quotes, interviews, advertisements, and sections on music, celebrities, and competitions that appeal to its target 16-25 year old female and male readership across 15 countries. It also provides tips on photography skills, the magazine's consistent house style, and recommendations to maintain its success while improving the contents page layout and variety of artists featured.
1. Community readiness assesses a community's preparedness to address an issue through interviews with community stakeholders. It produces an overall score and scores in 6 dimensions related to community efforts, knowledge, leadership, climate, resources.
2. Knowing a community's readiness level helps build cooperation, increase capacity, and guide the community through change. Lower scores indicate more preparation is needed while higher scores mean the community may be ready to take action. Conducting a community readiness assessment is an important first step for many community initiatives.
This document provides an overview of parish finance topics for churchwardens, including:
- The legal status of parishes under provincial and diocesan law and as registered charities.
- Filing requirements for annual returns to maintain charitable status and avoid penalties.
- Guidelines for financial statements, audits, and levels of assurance.
- Processes for managing funds held in trust for the parish, including the Consolidated Trust Fund and Cemetery Fund.
- Requirements for record keeping of donations, receipts, financial records, and payroll.
Centrecom employs experienced agents to conduct surveys for clients. Their agents are highly skilled in conducting consumer goods, insurance, and political surveys. Centrecom can handle entire data collection projects, supplying clients with quality quantitative and qualitative research data and ensuring projects are completed on time and to the client's satisfaction.
This document summarizes Mr. Cantlie's upcoming climb of Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise money for BC Children's Hospital. It provides background on Summits of Hope, an organization that fundraises for the hospital. It describes Mr. Cantlie's goals for the climb and ways for students to support or follow his journey up Africa's highest peak.
The document summarizes an executive MBA program offered by the University of Hull Business School in partnership with MDCI. The 2-year part-time program is delivered in Muscat and provides internationally recognized qualifications without requiring students to take a career break. The program includes 13 modules delivered over weekends in Muscat by UK faculty along with a research project. It offers the latest business knowledge and skills to benefit organizations and support students' professional and personal goals.
The Samsung Guru200 is a basic mobile phone with a 1.3 MP camera, 20MB of internal memory, GPRS connectivity, Bluetooth, and an FM radio. It has a 220x220 pixel display, supports MP3/AAC playback, and has a talk time of up to 3.5 hours and standby time of up to 250 hours. Additional features include polyphonic ringtones and a digital zoom camera.
The document outlines the key elements and design of a magazine, including the masthead, cover lines, page numbers, headings, pull quotes, interviews, advertisements, and sections on music, celebrities, and competitions that appeal to its target 16-25 year old female and male readership across 15 countries. It also provides tips on photography skills, the magazine's consistent house style, and recommendations to maintain its success while improving the contents page layout and variety of artists featured.
1. Community readiness assesses a community's preparedness to address an issue through interviews with community stakeholders. It produces an overall score and scores in 6 dimensions related to community efforts, knowledge, leadership, climate, resources.
2. Knowing a community's readiness level helps build cooperation, increase capacity, and guide the community through change. Lower scores indicate more preparation is needed while higher scores mean the community may be ready to take action. Conducting a community readiness assessment is an important first step for many community initiatives.
This document provides an overview of topics covered at a Parish Leadership Workshop on human resources. Key topics included health and safety training requirements, emergency preparedness, screening policies, and guidelines around hiring contractors versus employees. Specific canons and policies around clergy remuneration, violence and harassment prevention, and proper documentation for endings such as resignations and dismissals were also reviewed. Resources from the Diocese of Toronto website including templates, checklists, and staff contacts were highlighted.
This document discusses two design models for a waste water treatment plant in a mineral processing mill using the Plant Design Management System (PDMS). Design Model 1 is for a small-scale mill and involves simple processes like aeration and filtration. Design Model 2 is for a large-scale, complex mill and includes additional treatment stages like sedimentation and disinfection. The PDMS software allows for collaborative, configurable design of the treatment plant by various engineering specialists.
Looking for an audience interactive mystery dinner theater with a Christian theme? This is it.
The Children's Hospital will get the badly needed new wing once the Starlight Sapphire has been sold to the highest bidder. In all its 2621 years, the gem has never passed hands smoothly but how much of the bizarre history is fact and how much is fantasy? The oddball assortment of buyers includes a washed up actress, foreign dignitaries, a teenage country and western singing sensation, a wealthy computer geek and his lawyer as well as feuding family members. Would any action be too extreme for those obsessed with possessing the Starlight Sapphire?
The Mystery of the Starlight Sapphire is a three scene play with dinner occurring between scenes One and Two and dessert between scenes Two and Three. The cast is comprised of four males, six females and 2 roles for either male or female performers. Run time varies but allow 1.5 to 2 hours. Pictures of past productions are included for costuming ideas.
Download the script and director’s notes here. Available separately for no charge are ancillary materials including a brochure describing the history of the Starlight Sapphire and “discovered†evidence about Ching, Betty Blue, Delilah and Bertha. These may be altered to suit your particular show. Get them for free at the Fools for Christ website.
This document summarizes questions and answers from a QbD/CMC panel. Key points include:
- FDA will fully implement a revised QbR review system incorporating QbD elements by January 2013.
- FDA will publish guidance on QbD requirements including a concrete QbR questions and examples for IR and MR products.
- FDA will address compatibility of QbD and "first to file" requirements through a federal register notice.
- FDA is open to industry collaboration and will hold workshops on QbD and revising QbR questions.
Teaser trailers are short videos released months or a year before a film's release to generate excitement and anticipation. They are typically 30 seconds to a minute long and may feature unfinished scenes as films are sometimes still in production when teaser trailers are made. Teaser trailers are aimed at sparking interest in the target audience and increasing desire to see the upcoming film.
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
Discover top-tier mobile app development services, offering innovative solutions for iOS and Android. Enhance your business with custom, user-friendly mobile applications.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/temporal-event-neural-networks-a-more-efficient-alternative-to-the-transformer-a-presentation-from-brainchip/
Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the “Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformer” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNs’ capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
This document provides an overview of topics covered at a Parish Leadership Workshop on human resources. Key topics included health and safety training requirements, emergency preparedness, screening policies, and guidelines around hiring contractors versus employees. Specific canons and policies around clergy remuneration, violence and harassment prevention, and proper documentation for endings such as resignations and dismissals were also reviewed. Resources from the Diocese of Toronto website including templates, checklists, and staff contacts were highlighted.
This document discusses two design models for a waste water treatment plant in a mineral processing mill using the Plant Design Management System (PDMS). Design Model 1 is for a small-scale mill and involves simple processes like aeration and filtration. Design Model 2 is for a large-scale, complex mill and includes additional treatment stages like sedimentation and disinfection. The PDMS software allows for collaborative, configurable design of the treatment plant by various engineering specialists.
Looking for an audience interactive mystery dinner theater with a Christian theme? This is it.
The Children's Hospital will get the badly needed new wing once the Starlight Sapphire has been sold to the highest bidder. In all its 2621 years, the gem has never passed hands smoothly but how much of the bizarre history is fact and how much is fantasy? The oddball assortment of buyers includes a washed up actress, foreign dignitaries, a teenage country and western singing sensation, a wealthy computer geek and his lawyer as well as feuding family members. Would any action be too extreme for those obsessed with possessing the Starlight Sapphire?
The Mystery of the Starlight Sapphire is a three scene play with dinner occurring between scenes One and Two and dessert between scenes Two and Three. The cast is comprised of four males, six females and 2 roles for either male or female performers. Run time varies but allow 1.5 to 2 hours. Pictures of past productions are included for costuming ideas.
Download the script and director’s notes here. Available separately for no charge are ancillary materials including a brochure describing the history of the Starlight Sapphire and “discovered†evidence about Ching, Betty Blue, Delilah and Bertha. These may be altered to suit your particular show. Get them for free at the Fools for Christ website.
This document summarizes questions and answers from a QbD/CMC panel. Key points include:
- FDA will fully implement a revised QbR review system incorporating QbD elements by January 2013.
- FDA will publish guidance on QbD requirements including a concrete QbR questions and examples for IR and MR products.
- FDA will address compatibility of QbD and "first to file" requirements through a federal register notice.
- FDA is open to industry collaboration and will hold workshops on QbD and revising QbR questions.
Teaser trailers are short videos released months or a year before a film's release to generate excitement and anticipation. They are typically 30 seconds to a minute long and may feature unfinished scenes as films are sometimes still in production when teaser trailers are made. Teaser trailers are aimed at sparking interest in the target audience and increasing desire to see the upcoming film.
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
Discover top-tier mobile app development services, offering innovative solutions for iOS and Android. Enhance your business with custom, user-friendly mobile applications.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/temporal-event-neural-networks-a-more-efficient-alternative-to-the-transformer-a-presentation-from-brainchip/
Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the “Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformer” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNs’ capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
Inconsistent user experience and siloed data, high costs, and changing customer expectations – Citizens Bank was experiencing these challenges while it was attempting to deliver a superior digital banking experience for its clients. Its core banking applications run on the mainframe and Citizens was using legacy utilities to get the critical mainframe data to feed customer-facing channels, like call centers, web, and mobile. Ultimately, this led to higher operating costs (MIPS), delayed response times, and longer time to market.
Ever-changing customer expectations demand more modern digital experiences, and the bank needed to find a solution that could provide real-time data to its customer channels with low latency and operating costs. Join this session to learn how Citizens is leveraging Precisely to replicate mainframe data to its customer channels and deliver on their “modern digital bank” experiences.