This document outlines the rules and questions for the Ask.QZ finals quiz competition held on 22nd August 2014. It consists of 5 rounds covering a variety of topics testing knowledge of technology, business, and history. The first round includes 10 multiple choice questions worth +15 points each. Subsequent rounds include summarize, connect, and identify questions worth varying points. Teams may bet points in the final gambling round. Correct answers and team participation are scored according to the rules for each round, with the quizmaster's decisions being final.
Access 2016 Open Quiz held at Modern School,Barakhamba Road on 17th December 2016.
Made by Apratim Chandra Singh,Paavas Bhasin & Ayan Marwaha
Hosted by Apratim Chandra Singh & Ayan Marwaha
Access 2016 Open Quiz held at Modern School,Barakhamba Road on 17th December 2016.
Made by Apratim Chandra Singh,Paavas Bhasin & Ayan Marwaha
Hosted by Apratim Chandra Singh & Ayan Marwaha
A tech quiz was conducted on 19 Oct 2015 as a part of the We Quiz series conducted by SJCE Grey Cells.
*The images used are all owned by respected owners. We do not claim ownership of any images.
The Final Round of the Sub-Junior Quiz at Access 2016, held on 16th and 17th of December, 2016
Prepared by - Apratim Chandra Singh, Ayan Marwaha, Paavas Bhasin
Hosted By - Apratim Chandra Singh & Paavas Bhasin
A tech quiz was conducted on 19 Oct 2015 as a part of the We Quiz series conducted by SJCE Grey Cells.
*The images used are all owned by respected owners. We do not claim ownership of any images.
The Final Round of the Sub-Junior Quiz at Access 2016, held on 16th and 17th of December, 2016
Prepared by - Apratim Chandra Singh, Ayan Marwaha, Paavas Bhasin
Hosted By - Apratim Chandra Singh & Paavas Bhasin
This quiz was held at Cambridge School, Indirapuram on 9th November, 2015 as a part of the annual IT fest, Infoyage 2015, organized by In-X Union, the IT club of Cambridge.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
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Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
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- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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Speakers:
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GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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2. Rules And Regulations
o The quiz consists of 5 rounds.
o The decision of the quizmaster will be final and binding.
o Any team found using unfair means will be immediately
disqualified without any review.
o Hecklers will not be entertained.
4. Rules
o Every correct answer will fetch you +15.
o The questions are not passable.
o 45 seconds for direct questions.
o There is no negative marking.
o The decision of the quiz master will be final and binding.
5. Question 1
On the possibility of a thinking machine in 1943, X said : “No, I'm not
interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a
mediocre brain, something like the president of American Telephone
and Telegraph Company”. ID X.
8. Question 2
X has partnered with app developers Motim and SoftFacade, along with ad
agency Wieden+Kennedy, to develop a new technology that detects when
the phone is submerged in water, and turns that would-be moment of terror
into a game. Like a submarine’s sonar, the innovative water-detection
technology is based on sound. The Y emits an inaudible ultrasonic tone and
then listens. Because sound travels differently in air than in water, the
phone knows when it is submerged. Identify X and Y.
11. Question 3
Oaf Tobar and Berkeley Blue founded which company? Also
provide their real names.
12.
13. Oaf Tobar – Steve Jobs
Berkeley Blue – Steve Wozniak
They both founded Apple Inc. together
14. Question 4
Harvey Ball, co-owner of an advertising and public relations firm
designed the _______ in 1964 to help ease the acrimonious aftermath
following the merger of two insurance companies: State Mutual Life
Assurance Company. State Mutual planned up a “friendship
campaign” to get employees to smile whenever they answered the
phone, paid a claim, or typed a report. What is it that he designed?
17. Question 5
X began as a research project by Michael Loren Mauldin of Carnegie
Mellon University in 1994. X was sold to Terra Networks of Spain in
May 2000 for $13 billion, forming a new company, Terra X. On August
16, 2010, Ybrant Digital announced the signing of a stock purchase
agreement to acquire X Inc. What am I describing?
23. Question 7
On August 14th, 2014, hackers broke into the Twitter account
of the PM of X, tweeting his resignation and criticizing the
President of X. "I am resigning. I am ashamed of the
government's actions. Forgive me.", said the Twitter account.
Identify Country X.
26. Question 8
X is bringing its hugely successful startup mentorship
programme to India, and has already identified over ten
startups to be a part of it. Y, as it is called, will be a 5-day
programme between November 3 and 7 in Bangalore, and
will see a number of senior members of X to mentor the
startups in technology, user interfaces, user experiences
and marketing. Identify X and Y.
29. Question 9
For a generation that chooses Snapchat over sleep, there’s a cool
Twilight-inspired term called X to describe nighttime natter. A quick
search on #X throws up images of teenagers looking bored, lying on
bed, looking at the moon and saying #iamsleepless, #whoallareup,
#iusedtosleep, etc. Identify the term X.
32. Question 10
Satya Nadella, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Larry
Page, Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos. All of them have
something common in the past few weeks. What am I
talking about?
35. Question 11
In 1930, AT&T's Western Electric established a division for the specific
purpose of installing and servicing their loudspeakers and electronic
products for motion picture use. Named Electrical Research Products,
Inc. and commonly referred to by the acronym ERPI, it was the target of
an anti-trust suit brought by Stanley K. Oldden. ERPI was purchased as
part of a consent decree in 1937 by a group of ERPI executives, including
George Carrington, Sr., Leon Whitney Mike Conrow, Bert Sanford, Jr.,
and Alvis A. Ward, with funding from three Wall Street investors. They
reincorporated as "All Technical Service Company". Give its present
name.
38. Question 12
A Stanford Professor, Donald Knuth wrote a book X, after
reading the first volume of which Y said, “You should
definitely send me a résumé if you can read the whole thing.”
ID X and Y.
39.
40. The Art Of Computer Programming - X
Bill Gates - Y
42. Rules
o Every correct answer will fetch you +20.
o The questions are passable.
o Passed questions will fetch you +10.
o 60 seconds for direct questions, passed questions to be immediately
answered.
o There is no negative marking.
o The decision of the quiz master will be final and binding.
43. Question 1
“To me, the most critical thing in the hobby market right now is the lack of good software
courses, books and software itself. Without good software and an owner who understands
programming, a hobby computer is wasted. Will quality software be written for the hobby
market?”
“Almost a year ago, Y and myself, expecting the hobby market to expand, hiredMonte Davidoff
and developed Z. Though the initial work took only two months, the three of us have spent
most of the last year documenting, improving and adding features to Z. Now we have 4K, 8K,
EXTENDED, ROM and DISK Z. The value of the computer time we have used exceeds
$40,000”.
- X
Identify X, Y and Z.
46. Question 2
X, a technology giant recently banned two chemicals from being used
in the final stages of manufacturing its devices following pressure
from activist groups and an investigation at its 22 factories. The two
chemicals in question are Y and n-hexane, which manufacturers use
as a cleaning and solvent agent respectively, but have been linked to
health problems.
Identify X and Y.
49. Question 3
In 1966, after X’s father’s death, X returned home from Stanford University
and took over Y as its chairman at the age of 21.He was instrumental in
transforming Y into a highly profitable, diversified corporation that
eventually included such products as the Y SuperGenius personal computers,
that in 1999 were the one Indian PC range to obtain the US-based National
Software Testing Laboratory (NSTL) certification for the Year 2000 (Y2K)
compliance in hardware for all models. X is a major shareholder in Y. During
the 1970s and 1980s, the company shifted its focus to new business
opportunities in the IT and computing industry, which was at a nascent stage
in India at the time.
ID X and Y.
52. Question 4
X began as an IBM Canada project. Object Technology International (OTI), which
had previously marketed the Smalltalk-based VisualAge family of Y products,
developed the new product as a Java-based replacement. In November 2001, a
consortium was formed with a board of stewards to further the development of X
as open-source software. It is estimated that IBM had already invested close to
$40 million by that time. The original members were Borland, IBM, Merant, QNX
Software Systems, Rational Software, Red Hat, SuSE, TogetherSoft and WebGain.
ID X and Y.
53.
54. Eclipse [ X ] and Integrated Development Environment [ Y ]
55. Question 5
X is written in 15 million lines of Y code and runs on more than 10,000 CPUs. The
database currently includes hundreds of datasets, such as "All Current and
Historical Weather". The datasets have been accumulated over several
years. The curated (as distinct from auto-generated) datasets are checked for
quality either by a scientist or other expert in a relevant field, or someone acting
in a clerical capacity who simply verifies that the datasets are "acceptable“. ID X
and Y.
Hint: X was also the information provider for a prominent piece of software by a
tech giant.
58. Question 6
X is an international programming competition hosted and
administered by Y. In 2011, over 11,000 people from around the world
competed to solve some of the most difficult algorithmic coding
challenges in three online elimination rounds. The winner was Petr
Mitrichev from Russia followed by Anh Tuan Khuc (Vietnam) and
Tiancheng Lou (China).
ID X and Y.
62. Rules
o Every correct answer will fetch you +30.
o The questions are not passable.
o 60 seconds for direct questions.
o There is no negative marking.
o The decision of the quiz master will be final and binding.
63. Question 1
Connect the video to a web browser. Name the company
that makes the browser.
108. Rules
o Gambling round.
o All questions will be open to all the teams.
o All teams may bet an amount ranging from 15 to 60 points on a question.
o Teams must write down the answers and have one person raise one hand to answer.
o Teams giving the correct answer get the points they bet.
o Teams giving incorrect answers lose the number of points betted by them.
109. Question 1
X is a fictional native of Seattle who exhibited an early interest in theoretical
physics, especially quantum mechanics and the theory of general relativity. X’s
childhood heroes were Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, and Richard Feynman.
After observing a series of teleportation experiments conducted by the Institute
for Experimental Physics in Innsbruck, Austria, the transmission of matter became
X’s obsession. He graduated from MIT with a Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Physics.
His doctoral thesis on the teleportation of matter through extremely dense
elements was titled Observation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Entanglement on
Supraquantum Structures by Induction Through Nonlinear Transuranic Crystal of
Extremely Long Wavelength Pulse from Mode-Locked Source Array. Identify X.
112. Question 2
A California real estate developer, Mircea Voskerician, who sold X rights
to buy his home, recently sued the Y founder to get the property back.
Voskerician said he gave X a 40% discount on the $4.3 million property
in 2012 because he was promised introductions and referrals to boost
his business that never materialized. X's lawyers argued Voskerician's
claim had no basis in law.
Identify X and Y.
118. Question 4
X is a formerly popular website which is credited for having displayed
the first instance of Y which was created using MS Paint in 2008 on its
‘/b/’ board. Y has since then generated great popularity and is now
visible on almost every social networking website. X has been
instrumental in hijacking Internet destinations for pranks, so that, for
example, images of Rick Astley appeared instead of the page that was
searched for; the coordination of attacks against other websites and
Internet users; and reactions to threats of violence that have been
posted on the site. X also has an Alexa rank of 994.
ID X and Y.
121. Question 5
X is a team that emerged in early 2014 during the Chinese reshuffle that
happened prior to the fourth International tournament. Originally dubbed
"Dream Team 2", the rumors started after captain Xiao8 made a post on his QQ
micro-blogging page after LGD Gaming's win in the Dota 2 League Season 4 in
Las Vegas, saying "New start in 2014 after 3 years in LGD", forever Dream 5.".
The rumors later placed TongFu and Invictus Gaming members Mu, Faith, Hao
and ChuaN in the team together with Xiao8. A few weeks later, the team was
announced to be competing in the third season of the Sina Cup, but the roster
was not yet revealed. X recently won $5 million in The International, the event
conducted by Valve.
ID X.
128. These are the results when X is entered on vogue.co.uk and digg.com. These are only two of
the many websites that respond to X. X, used for the first time in the 1986 release of Gradius
is very popular in the world of gaming. Identify X.
131. Question 8
Google recently announced a new line of phones in partnership with
companies like Karbonn and Micromax. Name this series of mobile
devices.
134. Question 9
On 13 June 2012, Kogan Electronics, an Australian reseller of consumer electronics
introduced a X 'tax', which charged any user shopping at the site from X an extra 6.8% –
0.1% for every month X had been on the market. Ruslan Kogan explained that he had
decided to charge the 'tax' because: "The amount of work and effort involved in making our
website look normal on X equalled the combined time of designing for Chrome, Safari and
Firefox."
Kogan accepted that it was unlikely that anyone would actually pay the charges, stating that
the goal of the campaign was to encourage users to download a more up-to-date version of
X. The 'tax' was the most talked about topic on social media service Twitter on the day
following its launch. Identify X.
143. Question 12
X was founded in 1951. It emerged after a reorganization of Y. This
company manufactured equipment for use in the seismic industry as
well as defense electronics. X began research in transistors in the
early 1950s and produced the world's first commercial silicon
transistor. In 1954, X designed and manufactured the first transistor
radio and Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958 while
working at X's Central Research Labs. The company produced the
first integrated circuit-based computer for the U.S. Air Force in 1961.
X researched infrared technology in the late 1950s and later made
radar systems as well as guidance and control systems for both
missiles and bombs. Identify X and Y.