1) Bringer Productions is a student film production company formed by three friends with red and brown hair.
2) They chose Dark Castle Entertainment as their production partner due to its experience and reputation through affiliations with major studios.
3) To fund their psychological thriller film about a blind man who kidnaps his daughter's killer, they plan to launch a Kickstarter campaign to attract investors and allow a larger budget.
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.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
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
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
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/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
2. WHAT DOES A PRODUCTION COMPANY
DO?
A production company fills a vital role by distributing and organising the film. They often
control and oversee so many aspects including :
Being in charge of wellbeing of all staff involved is yet another responsibility of a production
company. Due to their huge involvement in the film it is vital that we find a suitable company
to aid us in making our film the best it can be.
Production companies are usually part of conglomerates which means they are often partnered
with other production companies in order to have the funds to be able to do a good job.
However, larger and more well known names, such as 20th century fox, are much more
independent and as a result have most of the say in regards to the film.
• Budgeting
• Scheduling
• Scripting
• Casting
3. DARK CASTLE ENTERTAINMENT
Dark Castle Entertainment is an film production label, it is a division of Silver Pictures, a
production house formally affiliated with Warner Bros., now affiliated with Universal
Studios. It was formed in 1999 by Joel Silver, Robert Zemeckis, and Gilbert Adler. The
fact that it is attached with these well credited production companies suggests it
quality. It has been running for 18 years and offers the experience we wanted for our
film. Also their opening sequence is specifically fitted to our genre and we believed it
sets the tone for the movie to follow.
4. OUR PRODUCTION COMPANY NAME
AND LOGO
Our company name was created due to our hair colour. Two of the
members have red hair and one is brunette. Merging the two together it
creates bringer (brunette and ginger). We thought this was extremely
original and appeals to who we are. After people started talking about
our name we realised they were pronouncing it differently to how we
first thought. We could have changed the name at that point but the
‘bring-er’ pronunciation had an appeal to it as it was similar to the
phrase ‘bring it on’ which definitely reflects our ideology.
In terms of our logo we decided to re-design it half way through our
film. After receiving feedback we decided it was too dull and simple.
Using Photoshop I still incorporated the film reel as it was retro and
made it obvious to what we did as a company. Our new logo (bottom
image) is much more professional and is very bold in order to let our
name be seen.
5. FILM DISTRIBUTER
A film distributor is responsible for marketing a film. The distribution company usually differs
from the production company. However the production company needs to consider the
funding of the distribution when producing the film. The distributors do things like setting a
release date of a film and making sure it is hasn’t got any rivalry which could effect sales. They
also control how it is viewed by the public, e.g. via DVD or if it should be available on sky
demand at any point. When researching distribution companies who have dealt with our genre
20th Century Fox and Paramount were the obvious candidates. They both had successfully
marked thrillers before and both were once again well known a credible. After deliberation we
decided that 20th century fox would be the better company to get our film known. They
seemed to be slightly more successful than paramount within recent releases such as Gone Girl
and Taken.
6. HOW WILL WE RAISE THE MONEY?
Kickstarter is a public-benefit corporation that maintains a global
crowdfunding platform focused on creativity. The company's stated
mission is to "help bring creative projects to life". Kickstarter has
reportedly received more than $1.9 billion in pledges from 9.4 million
backers to fund 257,000 creative projects, such as films, music, stage
shows, comics, journalism, video games, technology and food-related
projects.
This makes Kickstarter ideal for as it is made for the very purpose of
creative projects such as a thriller film. It will allow us to make our film
look more professional as we will be able to create a more realistic
atmosphere due to the extra money we have to play with. I am
confident we would receive funds as companies are growing in
popularity and more and more investors see it as a chance to gain
reward.
7. TITLES
o The first title is the Dark Castle production company sequence.
o This is followed by our own title sequence.
o Then the ‘starring’ followed by the actors names
o Continued with ‘produced by’ and the producer
o Finally, ‘filmed by’ and the director.
8. COMPARISONS
We were inspired by a film we had watched about two weeks prior to planning
our thriller. Don’t Breath , is a film about a blind man who kidnaps his daughters
killer. We drew the blind factor from this as we found eyes were extremely
venerable and close ups in this film were very effective. As a result don’t breathe
is similar to our thriller with the blind aspect.
However, due to the psychological theme to our thriller it lead to it having
similarities to films such as The Visit and Insidious. As these both linked in with
our mentally ill character featured in our movie. We also took inspiration from
saw in regard to the unsettling gory scenes. Our whole aim was to make the
audience feel on edge and by joining the eye aspect with gore I believe we
fulfilled this aim.
9. SELLING POINT
Our main selling point of our film is the mystery involved. As it is a
psychological/horror/thriller there had to have an aspect of questioning done by the
audience so by leaving the murders details in the film very vague it meant the audience
could torment themselves as to what happened.
Globally, our film would sell due to its relatability. The idea of a best friend being killed is
imaginable to everyone who has a friend. Also the genre is worldwide. Horror films are
loved by all adrenaline hunters. The idea of fear is attractive to many when in the cinema
and our film appeals to the idea ‘are you brave enough?’.
10. NETFLIX
The film distributor Netflix is becoming one of the most popular ways to watch films.
It allows people to watch films from the comfort of their home or on the train home
from work. This accessibility is very attractive to film lovers.
Putting our thriller on Netflix would release to a massive amount of people. It would
make our film not to hard to view and overall get it out into a larger audience. There
is however a large range of films on Netflix so I would worry that it may get lost in
the pure amount of thrillers and horrors available on the site. Despite this all it takes
is for one person to spread the word and Blind Fear could make millions.