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This document provides home improvement and decorating tips. It discusses Joseph Kellard's tips for home and garden projects as well as links to share content on social media. The document loads news bulletin items with titles, text, author information and notes and displays them in a scrolling container that can be reinitialized when new data is received.
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This document provides home improvement and decorating tips. It discusses Joseph Kellard's tips for home and garden projects as well as links to share content on social media. The document loads news bulletin items with titles, text, author information and notes and displays them in a scrolling container that can be reinitialized when new data is received.
This document is a news bulletin from ABC News that provides technology and science news updates. It includes the headline, date, text and social sharing options for each news item. When notes are included, it also displays the note headline, author details and overview. Images and links are included for authors and social media profiles. The bulletin can be dynamically updated with new items and includes options to expand the text of each item.
This document discusses politics news and U.S. elections coverage from ABC News. It contains code for dynamically loading news bulletin items, displaying item details, and handling interactions like expanding text. The code also handles sharing links and checking for updated data.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
Point Elementary School holds an annual fundraiser called Jar Wars where students bring coins to school to earn positive or negative points for their class. The class with the most points at the end of the week wins. This fundraiser has raised over $27,000 since 2000 for Basket of Hope, a nonprofit that provides gift baskets for seriously ill children. The document discusses three students who participated in 2013 and how their $1,500 contribution helped Basket of Hope's mission.
This document is a news bulletin from ABC News that provides technology and science news updates. It includes the headline, date, text and social sharing options for each news item. When notes are included, it also displays the note headline, author details and overview. Images and links are included for authors and social media profiles. The bulletin can be dynamically updated with new items and includes options to expand the text of each item.
This document discusses politics news and U.S. elections coverage from ABC News. It contains code for dynamically loading news bulletin items, displaying item details, and handling interactions like expanding text. The code also handles sharing links and checking for updated data.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
Point Elementary School holds an annual fundraiser called Jar Wars where students bring coins to school to earn positive or negative points for their class. The class with the most points at the end of the week wins. This fundraiser has raised over $27,000 since 2000 for Basket of Hope, a nonprofit that provides gift baskets for seriously ill children. The document discusses three students who participated in 2013 and how their $1,500 contribution helped Basket of Hope's mission.
The document discusses characteristics of Millennials or Generation C, those born between 1980-present. It notes they are tech-savvy, connected to social media and the internet. Their expectations for travel and hotels include sustainability, community, social networking, technology, design and flexibility. Their consumer behavior is different in that they travel more, further, and seek experiences over brand loyalty. The document then provides examples of hotel brands like Moxy and Radisson Red that are designed for Millennials through emphasis on technology, networking, business and design.
Point Elementary School in Oakville, MO holds an annual fundraiser called "Jar Wars" where students bring coins to school to earn positive or negative points for their class. The class with the most points at the end of the week wins. The fundraiser has raised over $27,000 since 2000 to support Basket of Hope, a nonprofit that provides gift baskets to seriously ill children in local hospitals. Students Samantha, Leah, and Karly participated in 2013 and raised over $1,500, and plan to participate every year to help children in their community.
Point Elementary School in Oakville, MO holds an annual fundraiser called "Jar Wars" where students bring coins to school to support a charity called Basket of Hope. Over the years the fundraiser has raised over $27,000 for Basket of Hope, which provides gift baskets for seriously ill children in local hospitals. The document discusses the fundraiser and three students, Laney, Haley, and Mitchell, who participated in 2013 and hope to continue supporting the cause each year.
Point Elementary School holds an annual fundraiser called Jar Wars where students bring coins to school representing positive or negative points for their class. The class with the most positive points at the end of the week wins. Over the years the fundraiser has raised over $27,000 for Basket of Hope, a nonprofit that provides gift baskets for seriously ill children in local hospitals. In 2013 alone it raised over $1,500.
This document is a news bulletin from ABC News that provides technology and science news updates. It includes the headline, text snippet, author and date for each news item. It also includes options to share or see more of each item. The bulletin dynamically loads and displays the latest news updates using JavaScript.
This document is an article from the ABC News technology and science section. It discusses updates to their news bulletin widget, including updating the content and links displayed in the widget periodically. It also describes the code for displaying items, notes, and social media information for authors within the widget. The widget code handles checking for new data, loading and displaying items, and setting timeouts to prevent caching issues.
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?
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.
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Variables and Datatypes
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Control Flows and Loops
Conditional Statements
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Variables, Constants, and Arguments in Studio
Control Flow in Studio
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
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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.
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Direct losses from downtime in 1 minute = $5-$10 thousand dollars. Reputation is priceless.
As part of the talk, we will consider the architectural strategies necessary for the development of highly loaded fintech solutions. We will focus on using queues and streaming to efficiently work and manage large amounts of data in real-time and to minimize latency.
We will focus special attention on the architectural patterns used in the design of the fintech system, microservices and event-driven architecture, which ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency of the entire system.
High performance Serverless Java on AWS- GoTo Amsterdam 2024Vadym Kazulkin
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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.
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
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Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
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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.
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.
“Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transfor...Edge AI and Vision Alliance
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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.
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
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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.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
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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).
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
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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
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
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An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
Northern Engraving | Modern Metal Trim, Nameplates and Appliance PanelsNorthern Engraving
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What began over 115 years ago as a supplier of precision gauges to the automotive industry has evolved into being an industry leader in the manufacture of product branding, automotive cockpit trim and decorative appliance trim. Value-added services include in-house Design, Engineering, Program Management, Test Lab and Tool Shops.
QA or the Highway - Component Testing: Bridging the gap between frontend appl...zjhamm304
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These are the slides for the presentation, "Component Testing: Bridging the gap between frontend applications" that was presented at QA or the Highway 2024 in Columbus, OH by Zachary Hamm.
"Scaling RAG Applications to serve millions of users", Kevin GoedeckeFwdays
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"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
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Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
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