We believe, as our founding fathers did, that ‘the pursuit of happiness’ depends upon individual liberty; while injecting the stark reality that individual liberty must be supported by an abundance of capital that’s “seemingly” unavailable to 99% of the world’s population.
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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.
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.
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
2. Old Irn Bru
These are some old irn bru cans and an old irn bru advertising poster. The colour scheme has been exactly the same
with the orange, blue and silver which suggests that the colour scheme has worked well because it has not been
changed at all in the years that irn bru has been out. On the cans is a man standing, proudly holding a can of irn bru
which is suggesting that the drink is so good that it needs to be recognised. The diet/sugar free irn bru is in silver which
is exactly the same as the ones we see today. The colour schemes for every irn bru can are the same even though
some of them are rearranged if they are sugar free. The poster has a completely different colour scheme to the cans as
it has yellow, red and brown which does not relate in any way to the actual cans so it could look like it was not part of
the irn bru campaign.
4. These irn bru advertisement uses a lot of techniques which work well. They all use the same colour scheme which is
blue, orange and silver. This is good because there can be a range of different advertisements made but they can be
recognised because they all follow the same house style. They use the same font for their advertisement as they do on
the actual drink which is bold and in capitals which will draw people to it. Most of the previous irn bru advertisements
have the word ‘phenomenal’ which suggests that the drink is outstanding from other drinks. The slogan ‘gets you
through’ is suggesting that if you drink irn bru it can get you through the day which will make people think that it is
refreshing. I think that it is a good idea that the diet irn bru is a different colour so that people don’t get confused when
trying to find it. The good thing is that it still uses the same colour scheme but in a different arrangement because it can
still be recognised as irn bru.
5. I think this advertisement for irn bru could appeal to any age group as it features balloons which appeal to any age
group from young-old. The balloons relate to the colour scheme as they are blue and orange and also they stand out
really well as they are the first thing you notice when looking at the advertisement. The balloons also have the slogan
written on them, „irn bru gets you through‟ which attracts people because it is written in capitals and it is white writing
which stands out on the coloured balloons. There are two cans in front of the balloons which are original and sugar free.
This is a good idea because putting both the options on the advertisement will let people know that they don’t have to
buy a full sugar drink if they don’t want to. The website address is printed in small writing near the bottom of the
advertisement which might encourage people to go onto it if they want any information. Having the website printed
small is appropriate because not many people want to visit websites when it is just a drink although it is always useful to
have it there incase anyone does.
6. This advertisement is one I found on the website which was originally used at some point. The advert is extremely basic
and does not hold any information at all. On one side is an old photograph of what looks to be a criminal and on the
other side is a quote. The blue and orange colours are used in this advertisement and a very small image of an irn bru
can is used although you probably could not notice it at a glance. The quote reads “I could murder an irn-bru” which is
meant to come across as a joke as it relates to the criminal on the left hand side. It is suggesting that the criminal is a
murderer which means that this advertisement would not be aimed at children because they probably would not
understand it. There are many irn bru advertisements that are similar to this one as in they all hold puns or have quotes
that are supposedly from the image on the other side, be it an animal or a human.
7. This advertisement for irn bru would be seen on a bus stop. The poster has the same colour scheme as the actual can
which is silver and dark blue. On the can it says ‘sugar free’ in orange which would make it stand out because it is a
different colour to the rest of the colours used in the advertisement. There are some arrows pointing to where the sky,
pavement, words etc would be and also the writing on the poster reads „the totally obvious new name for diet irn bru‟
which link together as the arrow for the sky is pointing up to tell us its there even though it is obvious to us that it is
there. The word ‘obvious’ has been made bigger than the rest of the writing because it is getting the message across
that it is really obvious what the new name is. There are some blue arrows pointing to where it says ‘sugar free’ which
will draw peoples attention to it as that is the main point of the advertisement.
8. This is an advertisement for the
energy drink, „Rockstar‟. There are
many different flavours of Rockstar
but there are different types too, such
as juiced, diet and original. Each
flavour/type of Rockstar has a
different colour scheme although they
all include the yellow star which is the
Rockstar logo. There are a small
amount of the drinks which have a
different coloured logo, for example
the Rockstar cola has a red logo
instead of a yellow one. Also, there is
a new Rockstar drink which includes
coffee so, the can colours for this are
brown and beige, and the logo is gold
to go with the colour scheme. The
advertisement
has
a
black
background with yellow and white
writing on which contrasts well and is
readable to anyone walking past. It
also has a rhetorical question which
says „what kind of ROCKSTAR are
you?‟ which makes you think about
which flavour drink you want.
This is an advertisement for the
energy drink, „Monster‟. This
specific advertisement is for the
original Monster Energy although
there are more flavours. The can
colour scheme is black with a
bright, neon green logo which has
been used as the colour scheme
for the poster as well. The bright
green stands out really well on the
black background and looks as
though it is glowing. The green
colour is also appropriate for the
name „Monster‟ because green can
be seen as a very eerie colour. The
poster has a green glow around the
cans which is shaped like a
monster and draws you to the
image of the cans.
This is an advertisement for the
energy drink, „Red Bull‟. The
slogan for Red Bull is „Red Bull
Gives You Wings‟ which suggests
that the drink is powerful and gives
you a lot of energy so you feel like
you can fly. The image for this
advertisement is a can of Red Bull
with wings which is appropriate for
the slogan. The colours for the logo
are red and yellow which are good
colours to use because they are
bright and noticeable. The colour
scheme for the can is blue and
silver which works well against the
red and yellow as it makes it stand
out more. The advertisement is
very simple and does not have a
lot on it but it works well and it is
clear. The wing that is drawn on the
can looks like it is graffiti which
would suggest that the advert is
aimed at teenagers as the graffiti
would appeal to them.