LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
2. Cover Conventions
I structured my cover around the conventions of a Kerrang! magazine cover. This focused on the
general music magazine conventions such as a masthead, cover lines, a main image,
advertisements, a selling line, headline, price and barcode. As my magazine is a rock one, it
seemed appropriate to follow the structure of Kerrang! to keep in with the conventions of a rock
magazine I took a range of images and chose from the most aggressive. I also added in some
inappropriate language to engage the particular audience and link to the title ‘UNETHICAL’.
Inappropriate language to follow rock magazine
conventions.
Artist eye contact is conventional of music
magazines to make the magazine feel more
personal to the audience.
I decided to follow conventions, rather than break them, because it is what an audience is used
to. They are familiar with the structure and like it. They know their way around it and feel
comfortable. It is popular. However, if I had broken conventions people may not understand and
like to stick with what they already know.
3. Cover Forms
My cover’s forms follow a house style throughout each of the pages in order to show a
connection and to make the audience feel comfortable. These forms include:
• Colours
The colours used in my cover are featured throughout the rest of my magazine. The colours are
black and white, as they re contrasting and have a conventional rock association. And also a light
blue, which is the same colour on the artist’s clothes.
• Images
I took my own images in a photo-shoot and manipulated them in Photoshop to add into the
cover. It is then conventionally positioned central in the page.
• Text
I used a range of sizes for the text as the larger and bolder text is the most interesting and
engaging to capture the audience’s attention. The smaller text is slightly more detail of the main
titles and Headings.
• Fonts
I used a house font throughout each of the pages for the smaller text and a bold, unique and
edgy font for the Masthead, which is conventionally positioned at the top of my magazine.
Black, white and blue text, linking with house
style colour scheme.
HEADLINE FONT INITIAL IDEAS
5. Contents Conventions
The layout of my Contents page has followed a similar structure to one of Kerrang!’s contents
pages. I did this because Kerrang! are the most popular rock magazine and know how to
appropriately appeal to the particular audience. It is conventional of a contents page to feature
the name of the magazine, the date and issue number, a variety of images and follow a house
style and colour scheme. As the contents is a navigation page it tends to feature page numbers,
references and small snapshots of particular articles. Each article or feature tends to come
under a particular category which is clearly stated.
An editor’s letter is
conventional of a contents
page. They are not always
TITLE OF PAGE AND
featured every issue but
MAGAZINE NAME
certainly on the first issue
and perhaps special editions.
ISSUE NUMBER
AND DATE
THE
KERRANG!
ISSUE I
BASED MY
STRUCTURE
ON.
PAGE NUMBERS AND CATEGORIES
6. Contents Forms
My content’s forms allow it to stand out to my audience and
fit the conventions that they are used to in rock magazines.
• COLOURS
I used the same colours as in my cover to keep in with the
house style. This then gives more of a comfortable feel to
the magazine.
• IMAGES
I used a large range of images in my contents to make it
look as visual and busy as possible. I used large and small
images that related to the information in the contents page.
This meant that the audience can infer what each
article/section is about and makes it look more wild and
jagged.
• TEXT
The text I used related most to the information within the
magazine in context but visually linked to the font used in
my cover. It is bold and simple so it is easy and clear to read.
I focussed more on what it looked like rather than the
context because the audience who like this style of music
tend to prefer images rather than text.
8. Article Conventions
I wanted my article layout to represent more than the genre of rock but also have a serious and
quite dark twist to it. An article page I found was about a band break up, was simple but
represented sadness so I decided to follow its structure. My magazine article follows the
conventions of a title, a main image, quotations, an article, a sub heading (possibly more of a
revelation into the article).
HEADLINE
SUB-HEADDING, LOCATED JUST BELOW THE HEADLINE
QUOTATIONS
LOCATED
THROUGH
ARTICLE
PAGES
MAIN
IMAGE
FOR A
SERIOUS
EFFECT
9. Article Forms
The forms in my article page are similar to those in both my cover and contents pages. They
allow the page to meet the needs of the target audience and appeal to them.
• COLOURS
I used the same colours as in my cover and contents to keep in with the house style. This then
gives more of a comfortable feel to the magazine and allows the pages to all be connected.
• TEXT
The text is the main focus of this page so I used a clear
and readable font in a colour that allowed it to be
easily read against the background. I changed the
colour of the quotes to the blue colour featured
throughout the magazine. This was so that they would
be separated and different to the rest of the text. The
main article is smaller in size than the heading so that
the title stands out clearly and is the first thing noticed
on the page. It is also conventionally positioned to the
top-left hand of the page.
• IMAGES
I used one main image as it is
conventional of music magazine
articles to have one main image. It is
positioned to the right hand side and
the text is positioned to the left.
WHITE TEXT WITH BLUE
QUOTES
ONE MAIN
IMAGE