Getting commitments
•
0 likes•1,655 views
This document discusses how to build meaningful commitments from others for a goal or cause. It emphasizes that one's power comes from other people, not alone. It recommends asking people directly to join with a commitment of their time, money, or resources. The key to obtaining commitments is explained as the "4 Cs": connecting with others, providing context about the goal, clearly communicating what commitment is needed, and motivating others with a sense of urgency to catapult to action. Roleplaying examples of asking for commitments are provided, along with tracking commitments obtained over calls. Leadership is defined as enabling others to achieve a shared purpose despite uncertainty.
Report
Share
Report
Share
Recommended
Theory of change
The document discusses the concept of a theory of change in strategy. It begins by acknowledging those who originally developed and adapted the theory of change framework. It then asks questions to define strategy, discusses how anyone can be a strategist, and emphasizes that strategy starts with a team. The document outlines 5 strategic questions to develop a theory of change, including what change is wanted, who has the resources to create that change, and what resources you have to shift the balance of power. It provides the Montgomery Bus Boycott as a case study and discusses the difference between power over and power with others.
CSS
The document discusses the details and capabilities of CSS3. It covers topics like transitions, animations, gradients, web fonts, media queries, forms, and navigation techniques. The presentation encourages the use of these new CSS3 features but warns against overdesigning sites. Resources for learning more about CSS3 are provided.
SJSD New Teacher Day 1: 2011
This document summarizes an agenda for a new teacher orientation on August 4, 2011. The agenda includes introductions of presenters, an icebreaker activity called Mix-Pair-Share to help teachers get to know each other, a discussion on building a positive reputation on the first day of school, and a brainstorming activity where teachers predict the top seven things students want to know on the first day of class. The document provides guidance for new teachers to help ensure successful starts to the school year.
SJSD New Teacher Day 1, 2011
This document summarizes an agenda for a new teacher orientation on August 4, 2011. The agenda includes introductions of presenters, an icebreaker activity called Mix-Pair-Share to help teachers get to know each other, a discussion on building a positive reputation on the first day of school, and a brainstorming activity where teachers predict the top seven things students want to know on the first day of class. The document provides guidance for new teachers to help ensure successful starts to the school year.
Case Study: charity: water September Campaign 2010
The document appears to be notes from a meeting at Charity: Water discussing strategies for an upcoming campaign in September to raise funds and awareness. Some key points that were mentioned include celebrating birthdays, highlighting a specific issue, doing a live water drilling, sharing stories of people helped by the organization, promoting partners, tracking metrics, and learning from previous campaigns what strategies were most effective like prioritizing inspiring content and sharing.
Digital citizenshipv4 ist-ewebinar2010
This document discusses developing digital citizenship skills among students. It outlines a 5 step process: 1) articulating fears about technology, 2) studying how technology is used, 3) identifying areas of focus and resources, 4) developing digital character education, and 5) creating a new vision. Some fears mentioned are being ubiquitous yet nowhere, amplifying yet reducing, and issues of control and real vs hyperreal experiences. The document advocates making students "detechtives" to study technology use critically and reverse the trend of technology being invisible. It provides questions to guide critical analysis of technologies. The goal is for students to understand technology's personal, social and environmental impacts.
MMMM
This is a tentative attempt to show how the great literacy theory is related to communication study and meaning making. Comments are welcomed.
The Ethics of Abandoning Software
The document discusses the life cycle of software development from writing, releasing, maintaining, and eventually abandoning software projects. It notes common motivations at each stage like scratching an itch, making money, or self-promotion. It also examines the increasing issues of abandoned software due to the proliferation of platforms and developers, and ease of sharing code. Finally, it provides recommendations for transparently communicating the status of a project and making it clear when software is no longer maintained to avoid issues with abandoned code.
Recommended
Theory of change
The document discusses the concept of a theory of change in strategy. It begins by acknowledging those who originally developed and adapted the theory of change framework. It then asks questions to define strategy, discusses how anyone can be a strategist, and emphasizes that strategy starts with a team. The document outlines 5 strategic questions to develop a theory of change, including what change is wanted, who has the resources to create that change, and what resources you have to shift the balance of power. It provides the Montgomery Bus Boycott as a case study and discusses the difference between power over and power with others.
CSS
The document discusses the details and capabilities of CSS3. It covers topics like transitions, animations, gradients, web fonts, media queries, forms, and navigation techniques. The presentation encourages the use of these new CSS3 features but warns against overdesigning sites. Resources for learning more about CSS3 are provided.
SJSD New Teacher Day 1: 2011
This document summarizes an agenda for a new teacher orientation on August 4, 2011. The agenda includes introductions of presenters, an icebreaker activity called Mix-Pair-Share to help teachers get to know each other, a discussion on building a positive reputation on the first day of school, and a brainstorming activity where teachers predict the top seven things students want to know on the first day of class. The document provides guidance for new teachers to help ensure successful starts to the school year.
SJSD New Teacher Day 1, 2011
This document summarizes an agenda for a new teacher orientation on August 4, 2011. The agenda includes introductions of presenters, an icebreaker activity called Mix-Pair-Share to help teachers get to know each other, a discussion on building a positive reputation on the first day of school, and a brainstorming activity where teachers predict the top seven things students want to know on the first day of class. The document provides guidance for new teachers to help ensure successful starts to the school year.
Case Study: charity: water September Campaign 2010
The document appears to be notes from a meeting at Charity: Water discussing strategies for an upcoming campaign in September to raise funds and awareness. Some key points that were mentioned include celebrating birthdays, highlighting a specific issue, doing a live water drilling, sharing stories of people helped by the organization, promoting partners, tracking metrics, and learning from previous campaigns what strategies were most effective like prioritizing inspiring content and sharing.
Digital citizenshipv4 ist-ewebinar2010
This document discusses developing digital citizenship skills among students. It outlines a 5 step process: 1) articulating fears about technology, 2) studying how technology is used, 3) identifying areas of focus and resources, 4) developing digital character education, and 5) creating a new vision. Some fears mentioned are being ubiquitous yet nowhere, amplifying yet reducing, and issues of control and real vs hyperreal experiences. The document advocates making students "detechtives" to study technology use critically and reverse the trend of technology being invisible. It provides questions to guide critical analysis of technologies. The goal is for students to understand technology's personal, social and environmental impacts.
MMMM
This is a tentative attempt to show how the great literacy theory is related to communication study and meaning making. Comments are welcomed.
The Ethics of Abandoning Software
The document discusses the life cycle of software development from writing, releasing, maintaining, and eventually abandoning software projects. It notes common motivations at each stage like scratching an itch, making money, or self-promotion. It also examines the increasing issues of abandoned software due to the proliferation of platforms and developers, and ease of sharing code. Finally, it provides recommendations for transparently communicating the status of a project and making it clear when software is no longer maintained to avoid issues with abandoned code.
Educators for Excellence Benefits Overview
This document outlines the benefits provided by Educators for Excellence including generous health insurance plans, competitive salaries and bonuses, retirement plans, life and disability insurance, paid time off including 20 vacation days and federal holidays, sick leave and other leave options, professional development opportunities including 3 paid days per year, and additional perks such as commuter benefits, laptops, and cell phone reimbursements.
The real deal (1)
The document discusses the importance of voter registration, particularly for underrepresented groups. It notes that voter registration rates are lower for groups like African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, youth, and unmarried women compared to the rest of the population. The document argues that achieving equal registration rates across all groups is critical because the US population is becoming more diverse, and people of color will be the majority of eligible voters by 2018. However, this emerging demographic can only influence politics if they are registered to vote. Therefore, closing registration gaps is an urgent issue.
Building Democracy
The document discusses the importance of voter registration, particularly for underrepresented groups. It notes that voter registration rates are lower for groups like African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, youth, and unmarried women compared to the general population. The document argues that achieving equal registration rates across groups is critical because the US population is becoming more diverse, and these emerging groups could influence elections if registered to vote. It calls for efforts to close remaining registration gaps.
Coaching 101
This document discusses coaching and defines it as a direct intervention to help individuals or teams improve effectiveness or overcome challenges. It outlines different types of coaching and domains including strategic, skill development, and motivational. It then details the five step coaching process of inquire/observe, diagnose, intervene, action steps, and check-in. Finally, it discusses methods of coaching including asking questions, paraphrasing, offering suggestions, and inviting alternative perspectives.
10 Tips for Email Writing
This document provides 10 tips for writing effective emails. It discusses the basic structure of an email, including using an attention-grabbing first sentence, a summary paragraph, and calling readers to take a specific action. Other tips include keeping emails short, crafting effective subject lines, using a conversational tone, including a clear call to action in every email, and testing different email elements. It also provides suggestions for landing pages and examples of effective versus ineffective subject lines and email campaigns.
Tactics and Timing
The document discusses tactics and timing for achieving organizational goals. It emphasizes designing tactics that are strategic, strengthen the organization, and develop individuals. It provides criteria for creating effective tactics and a case study of a rally to analyze whether it met these criteria. The document encourages teams to review their theory of change, select tactics, ensure tactics fit the "sweet spot" of being strategic and strengthening the organization and individuals, set goals, and create an action plan.
Teams keynote noi staff
The document discusses how to build effective teams by avoiding common pitfalls of bad teams and embracing strategies of good teams. It notes that bad teams fail to get work done, engage others, facilitate individual learning and growth, and coordinate with one another. In contrast, good teams meet goals, engage others, promote continuous learning and improvement among members, and ensure strong coordination. The document emphasizes that building good teams requires taking responsibility for empowering others, working towards a shared purpose even in uncertain times, and establishing a team purpose, norms, roles and rituals from the start.
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation Parameters
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...
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.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)
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 .
From Natural Language to Structured Solr Queries using LLMs
This talk draws on experimentation to enable AI applications with Solr. One important use case is to use AI for better accessibility and discoverability of the data: while User eXperience techniques, lexical search improvements, and data harmonization can take organizations to a good level of accessibility, a structural (or “cognitive” gap) remains between the data user needs and the data producer constraints.
That is where AI – and most importantly, Natural Language Processing and Large Language Model techniques – could make a difference. This natural language, conversational engine could facilitate access and usage of the data leveraging the semantics of any data source.
The objective of the presentation is to propose a technical approach and a way forward to achieve this goal.
The key concept is to enable users to express their search queries in natural language, which the LLM then enriches, interprets, and translates into structured queries based on the Solr index’s metadata.
This approach leverages the LLM’s ability to understand the nuances of natural language and the structure of documents within Apache Solr.
The LLM acts as an intermediary agent, offering a transparent experience to users automatically and potentially uncovering relevant documents that conventional search methods might overlook. The presentation will include the results of this experimental work, lessons learned, best practices, and the scope of future work that should improve the approach and make it production-ready.
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...
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
Must Know Postgres Extension for DBA and Developer during Migration
Mydbops Opensource Database Meetup 16
Topic: Must-Know PostgreSQL Extensions for Developers and DBAs During Migration
Speaker: Deepak Mahto, Founder of DataCloudGaze Consulting
Date & Time: 8th June | 10 AM - 1 PM IST
Venue: Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore
Abstract: Discover how PostgreSQL extensions can be your secret weapon! This talk explores how key extensions enhance database capabilities and streamline the migration process for users moving from other relational databases like Oracle.
Key Takeaways:
* Learn about crucial extensions like oracle_fdw, pgtt, and pg_audit that ease migration complexities.
* Gain valuable strategies for implementing these extensions in PostgreSQL to achieve license freedom.
* Discover how these key extensions can empower both developers and DBAs during the migration process.
* Don't miss this chance to gain practical knowledge from an industry expert and stay updated on the latest open-source database trends.
Mydbops Managed Services specializes in taking the pain out of database management while optimizing performance. Since 2015, we have been providing top-notch support and assistance for the top three open-source databases: MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.
Our team offers a wide range of services, including assistance, support, consulting, 24/7 operations, and expertise in all relevant technologies. We help organizations improve their database's performance, scalability, efficiency, and availability.
Contact us: info@mydbops.com
Visit: https://www.mydbops.com/
Follow us on LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/company/mydbops
For more details and updates, please follow up the below links.
Meetup Page : https://www.meetup.com/mydbops-databa...
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mydbopsofficial
Blogs: https://www.mydbops.com/blog/
Facebook(Meta): https://www.facebook.com/mydbops/
LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...
This LF Energy webinar took place June 20, 2024. It featured:
-Alex Thornton, LF Energy
-Hallie Cramer, Google
-Daniel Roesler, UtilityAPI
-Henry Richardson, WattTime
In response to the urgency and scale required to effectively address climate change, open source solutions offer significant potential for driving innovation and progress. Currently, there is a growing demand for standardization and interoperability in energy data and modeling. Open source standards and specifications within the energy sector can also alleviate challenges associated with data fragmentation, transparency, and accessibility. At the same time, it is crucial to consider privacy and security concerns throughout the development of open source platforms.
This webinar will delve into the motivations behind establishing LF Energy’s Carbon Data Specification Consortium. It will provide an overview of the draft specifications and the ongoing progress made by the respective working groups.
Three primary specifications will be discussed:
-Discovery and client registration, emphasizing transparent processes and secure and private access
-Customer data, centering around customer tariffs, bills, energy usage, and full consumption disclosure
-Power systems data, focusing on grid data, inclusive of transmission and distribution networks, generation, intergrid power flows, and market settlement data
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdf
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.
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor Ivaniuk
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
A Deep Dive into ScyllaDB's Architecture
This talk will cover ScyllaDB Architecture from the cluster-level view and zoom in on data distribution and internal node architecture. In the process, we will learn the secret sauce used to get ScyllaDB's high availability and superior performance. We will also touch on the upcoming changes to ScyllaDB architecture, moving to strongly consistent metadata and tablets.
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-Efficiency
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
Session 1 - Intro to Robotic Process Automation.pdf
👉 Check out our full 'Africa Series - Automation Student Developers (EN)' page to register for the full program:
https://bit.ly/Automation_Student_Kickstart
In this session, we shall introduce you to the world of automation, the UiPath Platform, and guide you on how to install and setup UiPath Studio on your Windows PC.
📕 Detailed agenda:
What is RPA? Benefits of RPA?
RPA Applications
The UiPath End-to-End Automation Platform
UiPath Studio CE Installation and Setup
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Introduction to Automation
UiPath Business Automation Platform
Explore automation development with UiPath Studio
👉 Register here for our upcoming Session 2 on June 20: Introduction to UiPath Studio Fundamentals: https://community.uipath.com/events/details/uipath-lagos-presents-session-2-introduction-to-uipath-studio-fundamentals/
Biomedical Knowledge Graphs for Data Scientists and Bioinformaticians
Dmitrii Kamaev, PhD
Senior Product Owner - QIAGEN
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity server
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).
High performance Serverless Java on AWS- GoTo Amsterdam 2024
Java is for many years one of the most popular programming languages, but it used to have hard times in the Serverless community. Java is known for its high cold start times and high memory footprint, comparing to other programming languages like Node.js and Python. In this talk I'll look at the general best practices and techniques we can use to decrease memory consumption, cold start times for Java Serverless development on AWS including GraalVM (Native Image) and AWS own offering SnapStart based on Firecracker microVM snapshot and restore and CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint) runtime hooks. I'll also provide a lot of benchmarking on Lambda functions trying out various deployment package sizes, Lambda memory settings, Java compilation options and HTTP (a)synchronous clients and measure their impact on cold and warm start times.
More Related Content
More from Kristen Dore
Educators for Excellence Benefits Overview
This document outlines the benefits provided by Educators for Excellence including generous health insurance plans, competitive salaries and bonuses, retirement plans, life and disability insurance, paid time off including 20 vacation days and federal holidays, sick leave and other leave options, professional development opportunities including 3 paid days per year, and additional perks such as commuter benefits, laptops, and cell phone reimbursements.
The real deal (1)
The document discusses the importance of voter registration, particularly for underrepresented groups. It notes that voter registration rates are lower for groups like African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, youth, and unmarried women compared to the rest of the population. The document argues that achieving equal registration rates across all groups is critical because the US population is becoming more diverse, and people of color will be the majority of eligible voters by 2018. However, this emerging demographic can only influence politics if they are registered to vote. Therefore, closing registration gaps is an urgent issue.
Building Democracy
The document discusses the importance of voter registration, particularly for underrepresented groups. It notes that voter registration rates are lower for groups like African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, youth, and unmarried women compared to the general population. The document argues that achieving equal registration rates across groups is critical because the US population is becoming more diverse, and these emerging groups could influence elections if registered to vote. It calls for efforts to close remaining registration gaps.
Coaching 101
This document discusses coaching and defines it as a direct intervention to help individuals or teams improve effectiveness or overcome challenges. It outlines different types of coaching and domains including strategic, skill development, and motivational. It then details the five step coaching process of inquire/observe, diagnose, intervene, action steps, and check-in. Finally, it discusses methods of coaching including asking questions, paraphrasing, offering suggestions, and inviting alternative perspectives.
10 Tips for Email Writing
This document provides 10 tips for writing effective emails. It discusses the basic structure of an email, including using an attention-grabbing first sentence, a summary paragraph, and calling readers to take a specific action. Other tips include keeping emails short, crafting effective subject lines, using a conversational tone, including a clear call to action in every email, and testing different email elements. It also provides suggestions for landing pages and examples of effective versus ineffective subject lines and email campaigns.
Tactics and Timing
The document discusses tactics and timing for achieving organizational goals. It emphasizes designing tactics that are strategic, strengthen the organization, and develop individuals. It provides criteria for creating effective tactics and a case study of a rally to analyze whether it met these criteria. The document encourages teams to review their theory of change, select tactics, ensure tactics fit the "sweet spot" of being strategic and strengthening the organization and individuals, set goals, and create an action plan.
Teams keynote noi staff
The document discusses how to build effective teams by avoiding common pitfalls of bad teams and embracing strategies of good teams. It notes that bad teams fail to get work done, engage others, facilitate individual learning and growth, and coordinate with one another. In contrast, good teams meet goals, engage others, promote continuous learning and improvement among members, and ensure strong coordination. The document emphasizes that building good teams requires taking responsibility for empowering others, working towards a shared purpose even in uncertain times, and establishing a team purpose, norms, roles and rituals from the start.
More from Kristen Dore (7)
Recently uploaded
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation Parameters
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...
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.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)
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 .
From Natural Language to Structured Solr Queries using LLMs
This talk draws on experimentation to enable AI applications with Solr. One important use case is to use AI for better accessibility and discoverability of the data: while User eXperience techniques, lexical search improvements, and data harmonization can take organizations to a good level of accessibility, a structural (or “cognitive” gap) remains between the data user needs and the data producer constraints.
That is where AI – and most importantly, Natural Language Processing and Large Language Model techniques – could make a difference. This natural language, conversational engine could facilitate access and usage of the data leveraging the semantics of any data source.
The objective of the presentation is to propose a technical approach and a way forward to achieve this goal.
The key concept is to enable users to express their search queries in natural language, which the LLM then enriches, interprets, and translates into structured queries based on the Solr index’s metadata.
This approach leverages the LLM’s ability to understand the nuances of natural language and the structure of documents within Apache Solr.
The LLM acts as an intermediary agent, offering a transparent experience to users automatically and potentially uncovering relevant documents that conventional search methods might overlook. The presentation will include the results of this experimental work, lessons learned, best practices, and the scope of future work that should improve the approach and make it production-ready.
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...
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
Must Know Postgres Extension for DBA and Developer during Migration
Mydbops Opensource Database Meetup 16
Topic: Must-Know PostgreSQL Extensions for Developers and DBAs During Migration
Speaker: Deepak Mahto, Founder of DataCloudGaze Consulting
Date & Time: 8th June | 10 AM - 1 PM IST
Venue: Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore
Abstract: Discover how PostgreSQL extensions can be your secret weapon! This talk explores how key extensions enhance database capabilities and streamline the migration process for users moving from other relational databases like Oracle.
Key Takeaways:
* Learn about crucial extensions like oracle_fdw, pgtt, and pg_audit that ease migration complexities.
* Gain valuable strategies for implementing these extensions in PostgreSQL to achieve license freedom.
* Discover how these key extensions can empower both developers and DBAs during the migration process.
* Don't miss this chance to gain practical knowledge from an industry expert and stay updated on the latest open-source database trends.
Mydbops Managed Services specializes in taking the pain out of database management while optimizing performance. Since 2015, we have been providing top-notch support and assistance for the top three open-source databases: MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.
Our team offers a wide range of services, including assistance, support, consulting, 24/7 operations, and expertise in all relevant technologies. We help organizations improve their database's performance, scalability, efficiency, and availability.
Contact us: info@mydbops.com
Visit: https://www.mydbops.com/
Follow us on LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/company/mydbops
For more details and updates, please follow up the below links.
Meetup Page : https://www.meetup.com/mydbops-databa...
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mydbopsofficial
Blogs: https://www.mydbops.com/blog/
Facebook(Meta): https://www.facebook.com/mydbops/
LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...
This LF Energy webinar took place June 20, 2024. It featured:
-Alex Thornton, LF Energy
-Hallie Cramer, Google
-Daniel Roesler, UtilityAPI
-Henry Richardson, WattTime
In response to the urgency and scale required to effectively address climate change, open source solutions offer significant potential for driving innovation and progress. Currently, there is a growing demand for standardization and interoperability in energy data and modeling. Open source standards and specifications within the energy sector can also alleviate challenges associated with data fragmentation, transparency, and accessibility. At the same time, it is crucial to consider privacy and security concerns throughout the development of open source platforms.
This webinar will delve into the motivations behind establishing LF Energy’s Carbon Data Specification Consortium. It will provide an overview of the draft specifications and the ongoing progress made by the respective working groups.
Three primary specifications will be discussed:
-Discovery and client registration, emphasizing transparent processes and secure and private access
-Customer data, centering around customer tariffs, bills, energy usage, and full consumption disclosure
-Power systems data, focusing on grid data, inclusive of transmission and distribution networks, generation, intergrid power flows, and market settlement data
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdf
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.
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor Ivaniuk
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
A Deep Dive into ScyllaDB's Architecture
This talk will cover ScyllaDB Architecture from the cluster-level view and zoom in on data distribution and internal node architecture. In the process, we will learn the secret sauce used to get ScyllaDB's high availability and superior performance. We will also touch on the upcoming changes to ScyllaDB architecture, moving to strongly consistent metadata and tablets.
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-Efficiency
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
Session 1 - Intro to Robotic Process Automation.pdf
👉 Check out our full 'Africa Series - Automation Student Developers (EN)' page to register for the full program:
https://bit.ly/Automation_Student_Kickstart
In this session, we shall introduce you to the world of automation, the UiPath Platform, and guide you on how to install and setup UiPath Studio on your Windows PC.
📕 Detailed agenda:
What is RPA? Benefits of RPA?
RPA Applications
The UiPath End-to-End Automation Platform
UiPath Studio CE Installation and Setup
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Introduction to Automation
UiPath Business Automation Platform
Explore automation development with UiPath Studio
👉 Register here for our upcoming Session 2 on June 20: Introduction to UiPath Studio Fundamentals: https://community.uipath.com/events/details/uipath-lagos-presents-session-2-introduction-to-uipath-studio-fundamentals/
Biomedical Knowledge Graphs for Data Scientists and Bioinformaticians
Dmitrii Kamaev, PhD
Senior Product Owner - QIAGEN
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity server
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).
High performance Serverless Java on AWS- GoTo Amsterdam 2024
Java is for many years one of the most popular programming languages, but it used to have hard times in the Serverless community. Java is known for its high cold start times and high memory footprint, comparing to other programming languages like Node.js and Python. In this talk I'll look at the general best practices and techniques we can use to decrease memory consumption, cold start times for Java Serverless development on AWS including GraalVM (Native Image) and AWS own offering SnapStart based on Firecracker microVM snapshot and restore and CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint) runtime hooks. I'll also provide a lot of benchmarking on Lambda functions trying out various deployment package sizes, Lambda memory settings, Java compilation options and HTTP (a)synchronous clients and measure their impact on cold and warm start times.
Day 2 - Intro to UiPath Studio Fundamentals
In our second session, we shall learn all about the main features and fundamentals of UiPath Studio that enable us to use the building blocks for any automation project.
📕 Detailed agenda:
Variables and Datatypes
Workflow Layouts
Arguments
Control Flows and Loops
Conditional Statements
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Variables, Constants, and Arguments in Studio
Control Flow in Studio
"$10 thousand per minute of downtime: architecture, queues, streaming and fin...
Direct losses from downtime in 1 minute = $5-$10 thousand dollars. Reputation is priceless.
As part of the talk, we will consider the architectural strategies necessary for the development of highly loaded fintech solutions. We will focus on using queues and streaming to efficiently work and manage large amounts of data in real-time and to minimize latency.
We will focus special attention on the architectural patterns used in the design of the fintech system, microservices and event-driven architecture, which ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency of the entire system.
Leveraging the Graph for Clinical Trials and Standards
Katja Glaß
OpenStudyBuilder Community Manager - Katja Glaß Consulting
Marius Conjeaud
Principal Consultant - Neo4j
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSF
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
Recently uploaded (20)
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation Parameters
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation Parameters
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...
From Natural Language to Structured Solr Queries using LLMs
From Natural Language to Structured Solr Queries using LLMs
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...
Must Know Postgres Extension for DBA and Developer during Migration
Must Know Postgres Extension for DBA and Developer during Migration
LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...
LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdf
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdf
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor Ivaniuk
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor Ivaniuk
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-Efficiency
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-Efficiency
Session 1 - Intro to Robotic Process Automation.pdf
Session 1 - Intro to Robotic Process Automation.pdf
Biomedical Knowledge Graphs for Data Scientists and Bioinformaticians
Biomedical Knowledge Graphs for Data Scientists and Bioinformaticians
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity server
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity server
High performance Serverless Java on AWS- GoTo Amsterdam 2024
High performance Serverless Java on AWS- GoTo Amsterdam 2024
"$10 thousand per minute of downtime: architecture, queues, streaming and fin...
"$10 thousand per minute of downtime: architecture, queues, streaming and fin...
Leveraging the Graph for Clinical Trials and Standards
Leveraging the Graph for Clinical Trials and Standards
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSF
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSF
Getting commitments
- 1. Tuesday, August 16, 2011
- 2. GETTING COMMITMENTS @neworganizing Tuesday, August 16, 2011
- 3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Originally adapted from the work of Marshall Ganz of Harvard University. Modified by the New Organizing Institute with the help of many dedicated partners. Presentation designed by Kristen Dore (@Kristendore) @neworganizing Tuesday, August 16, 2011
- 4. Can we reach our GOAL alone? Tuesday, August 16, 2011
- 5. Review: Where does your power come from? Tuesday, August 16, 2011
- 6. People are power Tuesday, August 16, 2011
- 7. COMMITMENTS A specific pledge of time, money, resources Tuesday, August 16, 2011
- 8. COMMITMENTS How do we build them? Tuesday, August 16, 2011
- 9. Ask people! “will you join me?” Tuesday, August 16, 2011
- 10. Cs The path 4 OW to meaningful L YEL commitments HE WT LLO FO Tuesday, August 16, 2011
- 11. 4 Cs OWL YEL Connection HE WT LLO FO Tuesday, August 16, 2011
- 12. 4 Cs OWL YEL Context HE WT LLO FO Tuesday, August 16, 2011
- 13. 4 Cs OWL YEL Commitment HE WT LLO FO Tuesday, August 16, 2011
- 14. 4 Cs OWL YEL Catapult HE WT LLO FO Tuesday, August 16, 2011
- 15. ROLEPLAY Tuesday, August 16, 2011
- 16. Step 1: Craft a script Tuesday, August 16, 2011
- 17. Step 2: Roleplay & Practice Getting Commitment YES! Tuesday, August 16, 2011
- 18. Step 3:Make Calls! Tuesday, August 16, 2011
- 19. Step 4: Debrief & Celebrate # Calls # Contacts #Commitments 100 25 16 Tuesday, August 16, 2011
- 20. Recruitment Cycle Tuesday, August 16, 2011
- 21. LEADERSHIP Taking responsibility for enabling others, to achieve purpose, in the face of uncertainty Tuesday, August 16, 2011