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The document outlines the process for becoming a Level 1 judge and receiving a "Welcome Wagon" introduction. It discusses qualifications like past judging experience and exam passage. The candidate's knowledge, interests, and experience are evaluated. Testing involves giving practice questions, observing the candidate, and providing feedback. For those who don't pass, reasons are reviewed before retesting. For those who pass, checklists and introductions to judge resources are provided as part of the Welcome Wagon.
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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.
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.
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
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👉 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/
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Machine Learning Model: Predicts the likelihood of a URL being malicious.
Security Validation Functions: Ensures the derived URL has a valid certificate and proper URL format.
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Empowering Transition with Transpiler Support
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- 1. Making L1s and the Welcome Wagon L2 CJ Stambaugh New Britain, CT
- 2. Overview ●Qualifications ●The Candidate ●Pre-Test ●Testing ●Post-Test ●Welcome Wagon
- 3. Qualifications - Official ●Acted as a judge 2x in past 6 months ●Interview and recommendation from L2 ●Knowledge of tournament structure ●Pass the L1 exam
- 4. Additional Qualifications ●Member of LGS community ●Personable ●Can run an event without assistance ●JAR Knowledge ●CR Knowledge ●2HG Knowledge
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- 6. Candidate as a Player ●How other players view them ●Type of player can influence oSpike oJohnny oTimmy ●Types of tournaments played
- 7. Other Interests ●Different styles of judging oBoard Gaming - rules oriented oVideo Gaming - execution oriented oOrganized Sports - team/leadership oriented ●Relate interests to judging ●Judging should be fun
- 8. Relevant Experience ●Event Organization ●Customer Service ●Knowledge Oriented ●Philosophy Oriented
- 9. Knowledge Level ●Rules knowledge with targeted examples oLayer 7 (P/T) and sub-layers oCasting a spell (and related subjects) oAbilities oAP/NAP ●JAR knowledge ●Resources
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- 11. Testing ●Give time on the floor ●Give immediate feedback ●Review previous gaps in knowledge ●Materials ●Testing space ●Testing not at an event
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