The student completed a passion project researching natural beauty products and ingredients. She chose to focus on lip balm, hand scrub, and body scrub. Through research and planning, she learned about beneficial and harmful ingredients. She documented her findings in a research book. Though her lip scrub failed, she successfully created the other products using ingredients she researched. Overall, she gained knowledge about healthy skin ingredients that will help her in life.
Parkour is a sport that involves navigating obstacles quickly and efficiently. The document discusses the author's experience learning parkour through a passion project. It describes skills learned like vaults, wall runs, and safety rolls. The author notes needing improvement on tic tacs and wall runs due to limited space at school. Different parkour techniques are explained, like precision landing and safety rolls. The author feels they have made great progress and hopes to continue improving to someday teach or instruct parkour.
This document discusses e-learning and its implementation at Gardens School. It defines e-learning as learning facilitated by technology anywhere and anytime. The school aims to develop students' critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity skills through e-learning. An e-learning classroom provides opportunities for global learning, independent and self-directed study, and developing technology literacy and higher-order thinking. The document outlines how Gardens School provides iPads, laptops, software and online tools to support an e-learning curriculum across subjects like sport.
Earth has various landforms across its surface. These landforms include mountains, valleys, plains and other geographic features that were formed by geological processes over long periods of time. The planet's landforms continue to change through erosion and other natural forces.
Amandeep Singh, also known as Inkquestive Illustrations, is a 26-year-old Punjabi artist born and raised in London who is currently touring North America. He draws in a unique style that reflects what he feels and is also a YouTuber, actor, and works in the fashion industry. One of his quotes is "Life is like photography you use the negatives to develop." The document provides biographical information about Singh, one of his quotes, and credits his various social media profiles and websites.
The Sonoran Desert spans parts of Mexico and the southwestern United States. It has a very hot and dry climate but receives enough rainfall near the coast for large cacti to grow. Many plants and animals have adapted to the harsh, arid environment through mechanisms like storing water, nocturnal activity, shedding fur or feathers, and obtaining water from food. Over 3,500 species of flora and fauna inhabit the Sonoran Desert, including kangaroo rats that don't need to drink water and jackrabbits with large ears to release heat.
Color affects our emotions and lives in many ways. It can make us feel happy or sad, and even influence whether we feel hungry, alone, angry or loving. Different colors evoke different emotions - red may make us feel romantic or angry, yellow is a happy color, and blue tones are soothing. The world would be a dreary place without color, as it brings joy and expression to dressing, art, and people's faces. Color is an integral part of our everyday experiences and moods.
The student completed a passion project researching natural beauty products and ingredients. She chose to focus on lip balm, hand scrub, and body scrub. Through research and planning, she learned about beneficial and harmful ingredients. She documented her findings in a research book. Though her lip scrub failed, she successfully created the other products using ingredients she researched. Overall, she gained knowledge about healthy skin ingredients that will help her in life.
Parkour is a sport that involves navigating obstacles quickly and efficiently. The document discusses the author's experience learning parkour through a passion project. It describes skills learned like vaults, wall runs, and safety rolls. The author notes needing improvement on tic tacs and wall runs due to limited space at school. Different parkour techniques are explained, like precision landing and safety rolls. The author feels they have made great progress and hopes to continue improving to someday teach or instruct parkour.
This document discusses e-learning and its implementation at Gardens School. It defines e-learning as learning facilitated by technology anywhere and anytime. The school aims to develop students' critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity skills through e-learning. An e-learning classroom provides opportunities for global learning, independent and self-directed study, and developing technology literacy and higher-order thinking. The document outlines how Gardens School provides iPads, laptops, software and online tools to support an e-learning curriculum across subjects like sport.
Earth has various landforms across its surface. These landforms include mountains, valleys, plains and other geographic features that were formed by geological processes over long periods of time. The planet's landforms continue to change through erosion and other natural forces.
Amandeep Singh, also known as Inkquestive Illustrations, is a 26-year-old Punjabi artist born and raised in London who is currently touring North America. He draws in a unique style that reflects what he feels and is also a YouTuber, actor, and works in the fashion industry. One of his quotes is "Life is like photography you use the negatives to develop." The document provides biographical information about Singh, one of his quotes, and credits his various social media profiles and websites.
The Sonoran Desert spans parts of Mexico and the southwestern United States. It has a very hot and dry climate but receives enough rainfall near the coast for large cacti to grow. Many plants and animals have adapted to the harsh, arid environment through mechanisms like storing water, nocturnal activity, shedding fur or feathers, and obtaining water from food. Over 3,500 species of flora and fauna inhabit the Sonoran Desert, including kangaroo rats that don't need to drink water and jackrabbits with large ears to release heat.
Color affects our emotions and lives in many ways. It can make us feel happy or sad, and even influence whether we feel hungry, alone, angry or loving. Different colors evoke different emotions - red may make us feel romantic or angry, yellow is a happy color, and blue tones are soothing. The world would be a dreary place without color, as it brings joy and expression to dressing, art, and people's faces. Color is an integral part of our everyday experiences and moods.
Motocross originated in 1920 when Kendall mislay rode the first motorbike. Frenchman Richard Almet performed the first trick, called a wheelie. Travis pastrana is considered the best current motocross rider. The fastest production motorcycle is the MV Agusta F4 1100 CC at 368 kph, while the experimental Dodge Tomahawk holds the record at 400 kph. Trigger Gumm holds the longest dirt bike jump record at 278 feet.
1) Pirate captain Ezekial finds a treasure map hidden in a chest while raiding. The map leads to an island marked with an X.
2) They encounter dangers along the way like a giant squid and damaged ships from sailing through treacherous seas.
3) Upon reaching the island, they discover dinosaur bones and eventually an unlocked chest buried in the ground, but attract a T-Rex before they can open it. Ezekial is eaten by the crew for his poor leadership.
Whiritoa is a beach town in New Zealand that sees over 1,000 visitors on hot summer days around Christmas. The name Whiritoa means "shifting sands." Locals enjoy relaxing at the beach and surf club, and children participate in nippers beach safety programs. Tourism is a large part of the local economy during the summer holidays when people visit daily to enjoy the beach.
Racism, sexism, and bullying are serious issues that negatively impact victims. Throughout history, certain groups have faced mistreatment, such as women being executed by Henry VIII when he lost interest in them. Bullying takes many forms, from name-calling and rumor spreading to physical abuse. While bullying may seem minor, it has serious consequences for victims' mental health and well-being. To curb bullying, schools need stricter rules and consequences for offenders to protect potential victims. Both children and adults can bully others through harassment, assault, or forms of racism like those that occurred during segregation.
This document lists Christmas-related words from A to Z, including angels, bells, carols, decorations, everyone, frosting, gifts, holly, icing, jingle bells, lights, marry, North Pole, presents, quilt, Rudolph, star, tree, visiting, welcoming, and Xmas. Some letters like K, O, U, Y, and Z are listed as unknown as no Christmas-related words start with those letters.
Craig's Sonnet describes the four seasons through rhyming couplets. Summer is depicted as sunny with children playing, while autumn sees bronze leaves falling from tall trees. Winter brings the coldest weather with icy winds howling, a time for warming by the fire. Finally, spring arrives and melts the ice and snow, bringing joy and the onset of summer.
Leonardo Da Vinci was an influential Italian polymath of the Renaissance born in 1452 in Vinci, Italy who dabbled in various fields including painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. Some of his most famous paintings include the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. The document provides basic biographical information about Da Vinci as well as lists some of his most famous works and credits the sources used.
The document discusses the contents of a product called "Pop Neve" which is a white powder contained in a packet. [1] When water is added to the powder, it expands and gets cold. [2] Through experimentation and research, the author determines that the powder contains sodium polyacrylate, which causes it to expand when water is added, mimicking the effect of "fake snow". [3] They conclude that sodium polyacrylate was the key ingredient in Pop Neve responsible for its unusual property of expanding when water is added.
Jack celebrated his 13th birthday with a barbecue, sleepover, and activities with friends. Photos showed Jack and his friends preparing the barbecue, having a sleepover, playing on a trampoline in the morning, playing Minecraft, and saying their final goodbyes. The photographic essay documented Jack's birthday celebrations through a series of pictures.
The document is a journal created by Jack and Craig Garthwaite to track their progress learning German over 4 weeks. They set a goal to create a short play in German by the end. Entries include learning numbers, creating a first play about two men getting in an argument, researching German culture like Oktoberfest, scrapping the first play and creating a new one without an argument, and announcing their play is ready to be filmed.
The student analyzed a poem called "The Monster's Pet" by identifying patterns in rhyme and sound. They observed that the first verse had a unique rhyme scheme and felt the poem described the monster rather than its pet. The student liked how the author made the reader consider what the pet might be. They learned new rhyming patterns and how onomatopoeia can be used to express ideas in poetry.
The document compares the prices of various luxury items like a McLaren F1 sports car, Apple TV, Ninja scooter, crystal chandelier, and whirlpool spa bath in different countries including Australia, Great Britain, America, and New Zealand. For each item, it lists the price in the local currency of each country and sometimes provides the converted price to US dollars as well. In the end, it clarifies that they did not actually purchase these items.
Scientists are searching for a planet that could support human life using satellites, as overpopulation and environmental damage may make Earth uninhabitable long-term. An ideal planet would need to be in another star's habitable zone with the right temperature and atmosphere containing oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen. It would also need to have water. Moving humans will require much faster and more efficient rockets, which are unlikely to be possible for at least 200 years based on current technology and fuel limitations. NASA is leading the search using satellites like Kepler to identify candidate planets within the next two years.
The Turkish Van is a rare cat breed known for its long soft hair and love of water. It originated from cats found near Lake Van in Turkey. Key features include their long hair requiring regular brushing, blue or amber colored eyes, and unusual trait of enjoying swimming and water, which most cats dislike. Turkish Vans can cost around $500 due to their rarity.
Ferruccio Lamborghini founded Lamborghini in the 1960s after becoming dissatisfied with the engines in his Ferraris, Maseratis, and other cars. He started his own high-performance car company. The new Lamborghini Aventador can reach speeds up to 370 kph and seats only two passengers. It has a price tag of $675,000 NZD, and four have already been presold before going on display.
The document describes a trip to the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand, with sections detailing who went, what they did, where they went, when they went, and how they got there. It follows the sequence of their activities from beginning to end of the trip, including what happened next, then, later, and after that until concluding with "The End".
Georgia Farrow was born in the historical market town of Bury St. Edmunds, located about 70 miles from London. She discusses some of the town's historical sites, including ruins of an 11th century abbey and a statue of King Edmund who was killed by the Danes in 869. Farrow has visited London landmarks like the Tower of London, where some of Henry VIII's wives were beheaded, and Buckingham Palace, the home of Queen Elizabeth. She has always been interested in history and enjoys reading historical books.
The document compares the prices of 5 electronic items - an iPod touch, Google Nexus tablet, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and iPad Mini - in 4 countries: New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. For each item, the prices in the local currencies of the 4 countries are listed. Overall, the prices of all items tended to be highest in New Zealand and lowest in the United States when converted to New Zealand dollars.
The E-learning team took a field trip to the Maritime Museum and Journey to the Deep exhibit. They split into groups and explored the museum, seeing artifacts like a pirate ship. Then they had lunch and some classes went to Journey to the Deep, where they learned about sea creatures from a turtle, crab, and musical presentation. They saw pollution in the ocean and beautiful starfish. At the end they met Henimoana, the god of the sea, and were reminded to care for the ocean.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
Motocross originated in 1920 when Kendall mislay rode the first motorbike. Frenchman Richard Almet performed the first trick, called a wheelie. Travis pastrana is considered the best current motocross rider. The fastest production motorcycle is the MV Agusta F4 1100 CC at 368 kph, while the experimental Dodge Tomahawk holds the record at 400 kph. Trigger Gumm holds the longest dirt bike jump record at 278 feet.
1) Pirate captain Ezekial finds a treasure map hidden in a chest while raiding. The map leads to an island marked with an X.
2) They encounter dangers along the way like a giant squid and damaged ships from sailing through treacherous seas.
3) Upon reaching the island, they discover dinosaur bones and eventually an unlocked chest buried in the ground, but attract a T-Rex before they can open it. Ezekial is eaten by the crew for his poor leadership.
Whiritoa is a beach town in New Zealand that sees over 1,000 visitors on hot summer days around Christmas. The name Whiritoa means "shifting sands." Locals enjoy relaxing at the beach and surf club, and children participate in nippers beach safety programs. Tourism is a large part of the local economy during the summer holidays when people visit daily to enjoy the beach.
Racism, sexism, and bullying are serious issues that negatively impact victims. Throughout history, certain groups have faced mistreatment, such as women being executed by Henry VIII when he lost interest in them. Bullying takes many forms, from name-calling and rumor spreading to physical abuse. While bullying may seem minor, it has serious consequences for victims' mental health and well-being. To curb bullying, schools need stricter rules and consequences for offenders to protect potential victims. Both children and adults can bully others through harassment, assault, or forms of racism like those that occurred during segregation.
This document lists Christmas-related words from A to Z, including angels, bells, carols, decorations, everyone, frosting, gifts, holly, icing, jingle bells, lights, marry, North Pole, presents, quilt, Rudolph, star, tree, visiting, welcoming, and Xmas. Some letters like K, O, U, Y, and Z are listed as unknown as no Christmas-related words start with those letters.
Craig's Sonnet describes the four seasons through rhyming couplets. Summer is depicted as sunny with children playing, while autumn sees bronze leaves falling from tall trees. Winter brings the coldest weather with icy winds howling, a time for warming by the fire. Finally, spring arrives and melts the ice and snow, bringing joy and the onset of summer.
Leonardo Da Vinci was an influential Italian polymath of the Renaissance born in 1452 in Vinci, Italy who dabbled in various fields including painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. Some of his most famous paintings include the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. The document provides basic biographical information about Da Vinci as well as lists some of his most famous works and credits the sources used.
The document discusses the contents of a product called "Pop Neve" which is a white powder contained in a packet. [1] When water is added to the powder, it expands and gets cold. [2] Through experimentation and research, the author determines that the powder contains sodium polyacrylate, which causes it to expand when water is added, mimicking the effect of "fake snow". [3] They conclude that sodium polyacrylate was the key ingredient in Pop Neve responsible for its unusual property of expanding when water is added.
Jack celebrated his 13th birthday with a barbecue, sleepover, and activities with friends. Photos showed Jack and his friends preparing the barbecue, having a sleepover, playing on a trampoline in the morning, playing Minecraft, and saying their final goodbyes. The photographic essay documented Jack's birthday celebrations through a series of pictures.
The document is a journal created by Jack and Craig Garthwaite to track their progress learning German over 4 weeks. They set a goal to create a short play in German by the end. Entries include learning numbers, creating a first play about two men getting in an argument, researching German culture like Oktoberfest, scrapping the first play and creating a new one without an argument, and announcing their play is ready to be filmed.
The student analyzed a poem called "The Monster's Pet" by identifying patterns in rhyme and sound. They observed that the first verse had a unique rhyme scheme and felt the poem described the monster rather than its pet. The student liked how the author made the reader consider what the pet might be. They learned new rhyming patterns and how onomatopoeia can be used to express ideas in poetry.
The document compares the prices of various luxury items like a McLaren F1 sports car, Apple TV, Ninja scooter, crystal chandelier, and whirlpool spa bath in different countries including Australia, Great Britain, America, and New Zealand. For each item, it lists the price in the local currency of each country and sometimes provides the converted price to US dollars as well. In the end, it clarifies that they did not actually purchase these items.
Scientists are searching for a planet that could support human life using satellites, as overpopulation and environmental damage may make Earth uninhabitable long-term. An ideal planet would need to be in another star's habitable zone with the right temperature and atmosphere containing oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen. It would also need to have water. Moving humans will require much faster and more efficient rockets, which are unlikely to be possible for at least 200 years based on current technology and fuel limitations. NASA is leading the search using satellites like Kepler to identify candidate planets within the next two years.
The Turkish Van is a rare cat breed known for its long soft hair and love of water. It originated from cats found near Lake Van in Turkey. Key features include their long hair requiring regular brushing, blue or amber colored eyes, and unusual trait of enjoying swimming and water, which most cats dislike. Turkish Vans can cost around $500 due to their rarity.
Ferruccio Lamborghini founded Lamborghini in the 1960s after becoming dissatisfied with the engines in his Ferraris, Maseratis, and other cars. He started his own high-performance car company. The new Lamborghini Aventador can reach speeds up to 370 kph and seats only two passengers. It has a price tag of $675,000 NZD, and four have already been presold before going on display.
The document describes a trip to the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand, with sections detailing who went, what they did, where they went, when they went, and how they got there. It follows the sequence of their activities from beginning to end of the trip, including what happened next, then, later, and after that until concluding with "The End".
Georgia Farrow was born in the historical market town of Bury St. Edmunds, located about 70 miles from London. She discusses some of the town's historical sites, including ruins of an 11th century abbey and a statue of King Edmund who was killed by the Danes in 869. Farrow has visited London landmarks like the Tower of London, where some of Henry VIII's wives were beheaded, and Buckingham Palace, the home of Queen Elizabeth. She has always been interested in history and enjoys reading historical books.
The document compares the prices of 5 electronic items - an iPod touch, Google Nexus tablet, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and iPad Mini - in 4 countries: New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. For each item, the prices in the local currencies of the 4 countries are listed. Overall, the prices of all items tended to be highest in New Zealand and lowest in the United States when converted to New Zealand dollars.
The E-learning team took a field trip to the Maritime Museum and Journey to the Deep exhibit. They split into groups and explored the museum, seeing artifacts like a pirate ship. Then they had lunch and some classes went to Journey to the Deep, where they learned about sea creatures from a turtle, crab, and musical presentation. They saw pollution in the ocean and beautiful starfish. At the end they met Henimoana, the god of the sea, and were reminded to care for the ocean.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
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
LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...DanBrown980551
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
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
inQuba Webinar Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr Graham HillLizaNolte
HERE IS YOUR WEBINAR CONTENT! 'Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr. Graham Hill'. We hope you find the webinar recording both insightful and enjoyable.
In this webinar, we explored essential aspects of Customer Journey Management and personalization. Here’s a summary of the key insights and topics discussed:
Key Takeaways:
Understanding the Customer Journey: Dr. Hill emphasized the importance of mapping and understanding the complete customer journey to identify touchpoints and opportunities for improvement.
Personalization Strategies: We discussed how to leverage data and insights to create personalized experiences that resonate with customers.
Technology Integration: Insights were shared on how inQuba’s advanced technology can streamline customer interactions and drive operational efficiency.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/temporal-event-neural-networks-a-more-efficient-alternative-to-the-transformer-a-presentation-from-brainchip/
Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the “Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformer” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNs’ capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
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
High performance Serverless Java on AWS- GoTo Amsterdam 2024Vadym Kazulkin
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.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
"NATO Hackathon Winner: AI-Powered Drug Search", Taras KlobaFwdays
This is a session that details how PostgreSQL's features and Azure AI Services can be effectively used to significantly enhance the search functionality in any application.
In this session, we'll share insights on how we used PostgreSQL to facilitate precise searches across multiple fields in our mobile application. The techniques include using LIKE and ILIKE operators and integrating a trigram-based search to handle potential misspellings, thereby increasing the search accuracy.
We'll also discuss how the azure_ai extension on PostgreSQL databases in Azure and Azure AI Services were utilized to create vectors from user input, a feature beneficial when users wish to find specific items based on text prompts. While our application's case study involves a drug search, the techniques and principles shared in this session can be adapted to improve search functionality in a wide range of applications. Join us to learn how PostgreSQL and Azure AI can be harnessed to enhance your application's search capability.
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
From Natural Language to Structured Solr Queries using LLMsSease
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.