The document presents results from a thriller questionnaire. It asks respondents about their preferences in terms of gender, age, thriller sub-genre, desired elements in a thriller film, a recently enjoyed thriller and why, character types expected, descriptions of an ideal villain, ideal thriller locations, preferred viewing locations, and whether they prefer seeing, renting, purchasing or downloading thriller films.
The group attracted their target audience of 15+ by setting their film in a school that would be identifiable to that age group. The costumes of the main characters also typified young people. The storyline of a nerdy teenage boy having a crush on a popular girl in sixth form college was relatable. To get audience feedback, they asked students aged 16-17 which ending they preferred and uploaded the film to YouTube to gather comments, mostly from their target demographic.
The document summarizes feedback from 165 people who watched the film online. Survey results show that most viewers found the circular narrative successful and enjoyed the film overall. However, 63% did not predict the conclusion. Feedback suggested making the storyline more understandable, adding more camera angles and context for flashbacks, and improving the sound design. In evaluation, the filmmakers determined they should refocus shots to better convey themes, such as with dolly shots to show changes in perspective, and provide more background on the final character who confused many viewers.
Laura Young created a short film with her group that had to meet certain criteria. She also created a poster and double page spread as ancillary tasks to advertise the film. The poster had to catch viewers' attention and introduce the characters and actors. The double page spread provided more context about the story and production to create interest. Both pieces were meant to advertise the film through visuals and descriptions to potential audiences and get the name of the film recognized before its release. Laura aimed to link the designs and color schemes between the poster and spread for consistency and to reinforce the advertising message. She analyzed other examples to understand conventions but aimed for originality in her own designs.
This document contains contact sheets and photos from two photo shoots for Outfit 4. The contact sheets provide thumbnail previews of all the photos taken during Shoot 1 and Shoot 2. All full resolution photos from the two shoots are also included in the document.
This 3 line document appears to be copyright information for a record or album. It reserves all rights of the producer and owner of the recorded work. It also prohibits unauthorized copying, renting, public performance and broadcasting of the recorded work without permission. The record or album was printed in the European Union.
The document presents results from a thriller questionnaire. It asks respondents about their preferences in terms of gender, age, thriller sub-genre, desired elements in a thriller film, a recently enjoyed thriller and why, character types expected, descriptions of an ideal villain, ideal thriller locations, preferred viewing locations, and whether they prefer seeing, renting, purchasing or downloading thriller films.
The group attracted their target audience of 15+ by setting their film in a school that would be identifiable to that age group. The costumes of the main characters also typified young people. The storyline of a nerdy teenage boy having a crush on a popular girl in sixth form college was relatable. To get audience feedback, they asked students aged 16-17 which ending they preferred and uploaded the film to YouTube to gather comments, mostly from their target demographic.
The document summarizes feedback from 165 people who watched the film online. Survey results show that most viewers found the circular narrative successful and enjoyed the film overall. However, 63% did not predict the conclusion. Feedback suggested making the storyline more understandable, adding more camera angles and context for flashbacks, and improving the sound design. In evaluation, the filmmakers determined they should refocus shots to better convey themes, such as with dolly shots to show changes in perspective, and provide more background on the final character who confused many viewers.
Laura Young created a short film with her group that had to meet certain criteria. She also created a poster and double page spread as ancillary tasks to advertise the film. The poster had to catch viewers' attention and introduce the characters and actors. The double page spread provided more context about the story and production to create interest. Both pieces were meant to advertise the film through visuals and descriptions to potential audiences and get the name of the film recognized before its release. Laura aimed to link the designs and color schemes between the poster and spread for consistency and to reinforce the advertising message. She analyzed other examples to understand conventions but aimed for originality in her own designs.
This document contains contact sheets and photos from two photo shoots for Outfit 4. The contact sheets provide thumbnail previews of all the photos taken during Shoot 1 and Shoot 2. All full resolution photos from the two shoots are also included in the document.
This 3 line document appears to be copyright information for a record or album. It reserves all rights of the producer and owner of the recorded work. It also prohibits unauthorized copying, renting, public performance and broadcasting of the recorded work without permission. The record or album was printed in the European Union.
The document discusses the costume choices for two characters, Horatio and Mia, in an upcoming film. Horatio will wear smart clothes to portray the cliché of a nerd, with his red tie suggesting danger and blood. Mia will wear all black, representing her laid back personality but also implying a dark and vulnerable side, as black can symbolize pessimism.
The mis-en-scene, costumes, and storyline helped attract a target audience of 15+ to the film. The film was set at a school familiar to that age group. The costumes reflected typical young people's styles. The plot centered around a teenage nerd with a crush on a popular girl in his sixth form college class, a relatable scenario. Feedback was gathered from students aged 16-17 on which ending was better, and comments on the YouTube upload also provided audience input.
The mis-en-scene, costumes, and storyline helped attract a target audience of 15+ to the film. The film was set in a school familiar to that age group. The costumes reflected typical young people's styles. The plot centered around a teenage nerd with a crush on a popular girl in his sixth form college class, a relatable scenario. Feedback was gathered from students aged 16-17 on which ending was better, and comments on the YouTube upload also provided audience input.
The document discusses how the film "Neurosis" represents teenagers as the target social group through its characters, themes, and location. Specifically, it does this by featuring two main characters aged 16-17, exploring gender differences between the nerdy male protagonist and popular female counterpart, and setting the film at a school to provide context. Location and visual elements like costumes and lighting were also used to establish an eerie tone consistent with the psychological thriller genre.
The document summarizes how a horror movie opening sequence represented different social groups through categories of age, gender, and rule breaking. It discusses how the teenage social group was portrayed as young, liking to party, drinking underage, and breaking rules. Males were shown as potentially dangerous and suspicious, while females were portrayed as emotionally vulnerable, innocent, and pure through costuming. Sound and dialogue were also used to represent the social groups and establish characters as strong-willed or "bitchy" through their language. Imagery and makeup were utilized to demonstrate the importance placed on looks within the social circles.
The group attracted their target audience of 15+ through the mis-en-scene elements in the film. They set the film at a school to identify the target age and costumes reflected typical young people's styles. The storyline about a nerdy teen with a crush on a popular girl in sixth form college also resonated with the target audience. They gathered feedback from actual audience members ages 16-17 on which ending was better and uploaded the film to YouTube to collect comments, mostly from their target demographic.
Question three who would be the audience for your media product Leon Thomas
Our target audience for the psychological thriller film is 15+ years old. This is because similar successful thrillers like Final Destination attracted teenage audiences around 15 years old without including explicit content. Focusing on themes of violence, deception, and betrayal common to the genre, our film would interest and be appropriate for audiences 15 and older who are accustomed to these types of depictions without explicit material.
The group attracted their target audience of 15+ by setting their film in a school that would be identifiable to that age group. The costumes of the main characters also typified young people. The storyline of a nerdy teenage boy having a crush on a popular girl in sixth form college was relatable. To get audience feedback, they asked students aged 16-17 which ending they preferred and uploaded the film to YouTube to gather comments, mostly from their target demographic.
Question three who would be the audience for your media product Leon Thomas
The target audience for the media product is 15+ years old. This is because the psychological thriller genre attracts teenagers aged 15+ and does not include explicit content. Films like Final Destination and Disturbing Behavior that targeted this age group were successful. The film aims to interest males and females of similar ages and focuses on psychological problems, violence and death without being explicit. Research found most comments on the film came from 16-18 year olds.
The document discusses how the film "Neurosis" represents teenagers as the target social group through its characters, themes, and location. Specifically, it does this by featuring two main characters aged 16-17, exploring gender differences between the nerdy male protagonist and popular female counterpart, and setting the film at a school to provide context. Location and visual elements like costumes and lighting were also used to establish an eerie tone consistent with the psychological thriller genre.
The document discusses various technical elements used in psychological thriller films and how the student's media production incorporated or challenged conventions in these areas. It covers titling, camera movement, framing of shots, camera angles, mise-en-scene, editing, sound techniques, and actor positioning/movement. The student aimed to establish atmosphere and characters through techniques like a red title on black, tracking shots, close-ups, dark lighting, and diegetic then non-diegetic sounds. Horatio was centered in shots and twitchy to portray nerves observing confident Mia's gait.
Progression from it to the full product Leon Thomas
The document summarizes the improvements in various quality aspects from the preliminary task to the full product. It discusses improvements in camera stability with the use of a tripod, better framing shots that followed cinematography rules, more appropriate content that fit the assigned psychological thriller genre, inclusion of sound that matched images, and improved actor positioning and movement. The group's planning, organization, and dynamics remained strong throughout.
Bbfc classification for psychological thrillersLeon Thomas
The document discusses British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) rating criteria for psychological thriller films. Films rated 12A can contain moderate physical or psychological threats as long as disturbing sequences are not frequent or sustained. Films rated 15 can contain strong threats and menace unless the content is sadistic or sexualized in nature.
The document outlines the details of a student film project titled "Neurosis". It discusses the group members and their roles in producing the film. The main characters are a mother and her son who suffers from psychoneurosis. The film genre is a psychological thriller, which was chosen because it would be easier than other genres like horror. The document also lists the props and potential filming locations needed to make the film.
The document outlines the filming schedule for three scenes of a student film. Scene 1 will be filmed on Welham Road to establish the main setting of the story at Graveney School. Scene 2 will involve taking pictures of the actress Mia outside a theatre to create something mysterious. Scene 3 will take place in the university media suite, which will represent a newsroom, where the character Horatio writes an article about Mia.
Horatio falls while staring at his crush Mia and is mocked by other students. Later, he secretly takes photos of Mia and writes an article about her for the school newspaper to learn more about her unique qualities, though his intense interest seems troubling. Other students laugh at Horatio for being friendless and not fitting in, leaving him determined but alone on the ground.
The document outlines the filming schedule for three scenes of a student film. Scene 1 will be filmed on Welham Road to establish the main setting of the story at Graveney School. Scene 2 will involve taking pictures of the actress Mia outside a theatre to create something mysterious. Scene 3 will take place in the university media suite, which will represent a newsroom, where the character Horatio writes an article about Mia.
Horatio falls while staring at his crush Mia and is mocked by other students. Later, he secretly takes photos of Mia and writes an article about her for the school newspaper to learn more about her unique qualities, though his intense interest seems troubling. Other students laugh at Horatio for being friendless and not fitting in, leaving him determined but alone on the ground.
Horatio falls while staring at his crush Mia and is mocked by other students. Later, he secretly takes photos of Mia and writes an article about her for the school newspaper to learn more about her unique qualities, though his intense interest seems troubling. Students laugh at Horatio for having no friends and rumors spread that he will embarrass himself trying out for football to impress Mia.
The document discusses the costume choices for two characters, Horatio and Mia, in an upcoming film. Horatio will wear smart clothes to portray the cliché of a nerd, with his red tie suggesting danger and blood. Mia will wear all black, representing her laid back personality but also implying a dark and vulnerable side, as black can symbolize pessimism.
The mis-en-scene, costumes, and storyline helped attract a target audience of 15+ to the film. The film was set at a school familiar to that age group. The costumes reflected typical young people's styles. The plot centered around a teenage nerd with a crush on a popular girl in his sixth form college class, a relatable scenario. Feedback was gathered from students aged 16-17 on which ending was better, and comments on the YouTube upload also provided audience input.
The mis-en-scene, costumes, and storyline helped attract a target audience of 15+ to the film. The film was set in a school familiar to that age group. The costumes reflected typical young people's styles. The plot centered around a teenage nerd with a crush on a popular girl in his sixth form college class, a relatable scenario. Feedback was gathered from students aged 16-17 on which ending was better, and comments on the YouTube upload also provided audience input.
The document discusses how the film "Neurosis" represents teenagers as the target social group through its characters, themes, and location. Specifically, it does this by featuring two main characters aged 16-17, exploring gender differences between the nerdy male protagonist and popular female counterpart, and setting the film at a school to provide context. Location and visual elements like costumes and lighting were also used to establish an eerie tone consistent with the psychological thriller genre.
The document summarizes how a horror movie opening sequence represented different social groups through categories of age, gender, and rule breaking. It discusses how the teenage social group was portrayed as young, liking to party, drinking underage, and breaking rules. Males were shown as potentially dangerous and suspicious, while females were portrayed as emotionally vulnerable, innocent, and pure through costuming. Sound and dialogue were also used to represent the social groups and establish characters as strong-willed or "bitchy" through their language. Imagery and makeup were utilized to demonstrate the importance placed on looks within the social circles.
The group attracted their target audience of 15+ through the mis-en-scene elements in the film. They set the film at a school to identify the target age and costumes reflected typical young people's styles. The storyline about a nerdy teen with a crush on a popular girl in sixth form college also resonated with the target audience. They gathered feedback from actual audience members ages 16-17 on which ending was better and uploaded the film to YouTube to collect comments, mostly from their target demographic.
Question three who would be the audience for your media product Leon Thomas
Our target audience for the psychological thriller film is 15+ years old. This is because similar successful thrillers like Final Destination attracted teenage audiences around 15 years old without including explicit content. Focusing on themes of violence, deception, and betrayal common to the genre, our film would interest and be appropriate for audiences 15 and older who are accustomed to these types of depictions without explicit material.
The group attracted their target audience of 15+ by setting their film in a school that would be identifiable to that age group. The costumes of the main characters also typified young people. The storyline of a nerdy teenage boy having a crush on a popular girl in sixth form college was relatable. To get audience feedback, they asked students aged 16-17 which ending they preferred and uploaded the film to YouTube to gather comments, mostly from their target demographic.
Question three who would be the audience for your media product Leon Thomas
The target audience for the media product is 15+ years old. This is because the psychological thriller genre attracts teenagers aged 15+ and does not include explicit content. Films like Final Destination and Disturbing Behavior that targeted this age group were successful. The film aims to interest males and females of similar ages and focuses on psychological problems, violence and death without being explicit. Research found most comments on the film came from 16-18 year olds.
The document discusses how the film "Neurosis" represents teenagers as the target social group through its characters, themes, and location. Specifically, it does this by featuring two main characters aged 16-17, exploring gender differences between the nerdy male protagonist and popular female counterpart, and setting the film at a school to provide context. Location and visual elements like costumes and lighting were also used to establish an eerie tone consistent with the psychological thriller genre.
The document discusses various technical elements used in psychological thriller films and how the student's media production incorporated or challenged conventions in these areas. It covers titling, camera movement, framing of shots, camera angles, mise-en-scene, editing, sound techniques, and actor positioning/movement. The student aimed to establish atmosphere and characters through techniques like a red title on black, tracking shots, close-ups, dark lighting, and diegetic then non-diegetic sounds. Horatio was centered in shots and twitchy to portray nerves observing confident Mia's gait.
Progression from it to the full product Leon Thomas
The document summarizes the improvements in various quality aspects from the preliminary task to the full product. It discusses improvements in camera stability with the use of a tripod, better framing shots that followed cinematography rules, more appropriate content that fit the assigned psychological thriller genre, inclusion of sound that matched images, and improved actor positioning and movement. The group's planning, organization, and dynamics remained strong throughout.
Bbfc classification for psychological thrillersLeon Thomas
The document discusses British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) rating criteria for psychological thriller films. Films rated 12A can contain moderate physical or psychological threats as long as disturbing sequences are not frequent or sustained. Films rated 15 can contain strong threats and menace unless the content is sadistic or sexualized in nature.
The document outlines the details of a student film project titled "Neurosis". It discusses the group members and their roles in producing the film. The main characters are a mother and her son who suffers from psychoneurosis. The film genre is a psychological thriller, which was chosen because it would be easier than other genres like horror. The document also lists the props and potential filming locations needed to make the film.
The document outlines the filming schedule for three scenes of a student film. Scene 1 will be filmed on Welham Road to establish the main setting of the story at Graveney School. Scene 2 will involve taking pictures of the actress Mia outside a theatre to create something mysterious. Scene 3 will take place in the university media suite, which will represent a newsroom, where the character Horatio writes an article about Mia.
Horatio falls while staring at his crush Mia and is mocked by other students. Later, he secretly takes photos of Mia and writes an article about her for the school newspaper to learn more about her unique qualities, though his intense interest seems troubling. Other students laugh at Horatio for being friendless and not fitting in, leaving him determined but alone on the ground.
The document outlines the filming schedule for three scenes of a student film. Scene 1 will be filmed on Welham Road to establish the main setting of the story at Graveney School. Scene 2 will involve taking pictures of the actress Mia outside a theatre to create something mysterious. Scene 3 will take place in the university media suite, which will represent a newsroom, where the character Horatio writes an article about Mia.
Horatio falls while staring at his crush Mia and is mocked by other students. Later, he secretly takes photos of Mia and writes an article about her for the school newspaper to learn more about her unique qualities, though his intense interest seems troubling. Other students laugh at Horatio for being friendless and not fitting in, leaving him determined but alone on the ground.
Horatio falls while staring at his crush Mia and is mocked by other students. Later, he secretly takes photos of Mia and writes an article about her for the school newspaper to learn more about her unique qualities, though his intense interest seems troubling. Students laugh at Horatio for having no friends and rumors spread that he will embarrass himself trying out for football to impress Mia.
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.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/how-axelera-ai-uses-digital-compute-in-memory-to-deliver-fast-and-energy-efficient-computer-vision-a-presentation-from-axelera-ai/
Bram Verhoef, Head of Machine Learning at Axelera AI, presents the “How Axelera AI Uses Digital Compute-in-memory to Deliver Fast and Energy-efficient Computer Vision” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
As artificial intelligence inference transitions from cloud environments to edge locations, computer vision applications achieve heightened responsiveness, reliability and privacy. This migration, however, introduces the challenge of operating within the stringent confines of resource constraints typical at the edge, including small form factors, low energy budgets and diminished memory and computational capacities. Axelera AI addresses these challenges through an innovative approach of performing digital computations within memory itself. This technique facilitates the realization of high-performance, energy-efficient and cost-effective computer vision capabilities at the thin and thick edge, extending the frontier of what is achievable with current technologies.
In this presentation, Verhoef unveils his company’s pioneering chip technology and demonstrates its capacity to deliver exceptional frames-per-second performance across a range of standard computer vision networks typical of applications in security, surveillance and the industrial sector. This shows that advanced computer vision can be accessible and efficient, even at the very edge of our technological ecosystem.
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
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).
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
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.
The Microsoft 365 Migration Tutorial For Beginner.pptxoperationspcvita
This presentation will help you understand the power of Microsoft 365. However, we have mentioned every productivity app included in Office 365. Additionally, we have suggested the migration situation related to Office 365 and how we can help you.
You can also read: https://www.systoolsgroup.com/updates/office-365-tenant-to-tenant-migration-step-by-step-complete-guide/
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
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.
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
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.
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?
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
[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.
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
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.
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup Slides
Our Groups Roles And Characters
1. ROLES AND CHARACTERS:<br /> Leon Thomas<br />Our group decided to select me as the main character and therefore the stalker of the second character because as I am tall, I would stand out more. In other words, I have the stature that suits a paedophile/stalker that is mentally unwell. This is most famously recognizable through the clothes Horatio (the main characters name) wears. <br /> Jemima Luscombe<br />As a group we selected Jemima to play the role `Mia Charles` who Horatio has a `crush` on. We believed that Jemima was the most suitable female for this role in our group, because she possesses the characteristics and features of a typical teenage girl who is into gossip, fashion etc. Therefore, older and taller men idolize her because of this. <br /> Apple Mac<br />This is the Apple Mac that we are going to use in the scene where Horatio is writing an article on Mia. On the top right of this picture, we hope to include a photograph of Mia, to demonstrate Horatio`s obsessive feeling towards her.<br /> Media Suite<br />In our film, the Media Suite is going to act as the Newsroom where Horatio writes the article on Mia. As you can see in the picture, there are a numerous amount of Apple Macs, one of which Horatio uses to type up the article on the `Graveney Express`. <br /> Welham Road<br /> <br />Graveney School is Welham Road, and this road is included in the film because this is the location where we witness the main character `buckling` whilst stalking Mia. Whilst buckling two other characters poke fun of him. <br />