It is clear that the lifestyles of the western world have become unsustainable. Fossil fuel scarcity and global climate change are threatening to cause great economic and environmental damage to the world. Individuals have been looking for ways to understand their contribution to the global and local energy stages, and make better decisions to reduce their impact. WattzOn.com is providing users with an online tool to calculate, track, compare, understand, and budget their personal energy consumption – much in the same way they would manage their finances.
In doing this, WattzOn also strives to innovate on the tools currently available for personal energy tracking. The status quo on personal impact tools involves online “carbon calculators,” which are already ubiquitous on the Internet. However, these calculators suffer from fundamental flaws that prevent them from becoming an effective tool for change. First, they are static and therefore do not react to improvements in knowledge or allow the addition of data. They are also “black box” in operation and do not clearly show a user how their energy numbers were calculated and what assumptions were made. Finally, they have a singular focus on carbon emissions, which doesn’t fully characterize power usage independent of fossil fuels. WattzOn changes this by providing the entire community with a collaborative environment to understand and manipulate how the numbers are calculated, while also shifting to a more comprehensive paradigm by tracking total power usage in watts.
The WattzOn back-end is powered by a pretty unique database nicknamed “holmz” – holmz is a structured wiki-engine that allows people to not only manipulate and share text, but also lets people collectively edit structured data and workflows. With holmz, WattzOn users can debate how much energy goes into, say, growing an apple; separately debate how much energy is needed to transport the apple to a local grocery store; and then have another set of people combine those two together into one result: the energy cost of an apple. Finally, that data propagates through the system, updating the total watts calculated for people with profiles indicating that they eat apples. The crowds can collaborate on getting all the individual parts of the equation correct so that everybody many benefit.
WattzOn is currently a global tool with assumptions made on a national/statewide scale. However, the ultimate goal of the system is to be able to accurately understand the exact power needs of a user’s lifestyle. Given differences in distances from product sources, weather, population density, and transportation options, the impact of any decision will be dependent on the location of the individual. By allowing users to populate the database with information from their own lives (either manually or passively by linking to online bills), the accuracy of the calculations will improve. Once this detailed database exists, anyone will be able to run specialized queries and create clear graphics to illustrate power usage of various communities and groups.
By giving individuals a tool to clearly visualize how they are “spending” energy, we hope that they will take measures to lessen their impact on the world, ultimately spurring widespread energy reduction in our society.
Re-architecting a system is wrought with problems:
* We almost always underestimate the difficulty of said task
* We almost never completely understand our customers’ needs
* The system almost always changes out from underneath us
However, what we can sometimes forget is the most important aspect of any project: the team! Your team, who miraculously survives these projects, has to continue to change with your business and your technology! But, don’t fret, we can architect our way towards this way of thinking! Let’s figure out how to be resilient and adaptive with the help of each and every team member. Ignore re-architecting your team at your own risk!
The decision and process behind rewriting or re-architecting a system is often plagued with a series of problems: people always underestimate the complexity, people never fully understand the customers, system requirements constantly change out from under them, and, in almost all cases, it takes much longer than anybody can predict. As part of this workshop, we’ll look at a couple of case studies of re-architecture to gleam strategies of success from them as well as common pitfalls to avoid. This workshop should arm you with a framework by which to approach your own decisions around how to manage, maintain, and evolve your own systems:
* understanding the underlying motivations;
* developing a method for deciding whether to evolve or to rewrite;
* managing the engineering effort of re-architecture in the midst of a changing business;
* setting up metrics to understand whether you’re on course; and
* organizing the engineering team and the culture to ensure success
Our talk covers the migration of the Twitter architecture from primarily Ruby on Rails (RoR) to a JVM-based SOA system with emphasis on high performance, scalability, and resilience to failure. General lessons include the advantages of asynchronous, real-time architectures over synchronous, process / thread-oriented systems, as well as caching and data store patterns.
http://thinkvitamin.com/events/geolocation-online-conference/
What do users want with geo?
In this session Raffi will be discussing what companies are doing right now with geo and where they are being most successful. He'll also take an in-depth look at the privacy concerns and UI implications, along with what users actually want from geo-enabled apps and where the opportunities lie in the future.
The slides to a tech talk I gave as part of @TwitterU at UC Berkeley on 9 September 2010.
See the blog post at http://mehack.com/twitter-by-the-numbers, and an animated version of the slide deck at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdY0jU697lY
Intro to developing for @twitterapi (updated)Raffi Krikorian
A short primer on how to develop for the Twitter API.
This is the newly edited version of http://www.slideshare.net/raffikrikorian/intro-to-developing-for-twitterapi
How to use Geolocation in your webapp @ FOWA Dublin 2010Raffi Krikorian
Building geolocation into your web app is becoming a necessity for almost everyone these days. It's a complex problem though, so in this session you'll learn from how Twitter is doing this and pick up important lessons for your web app.
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.
Re-architecting a system is wrought with problems:
* We almost always underestimate the difficulty of said task
* We almost never completely understand our customers’ needs
* The system almost always changes out from underneath us
However, what we can sometimes forget is the most important aspect of any project: the team! Your team, who miraculously survives these projects, has to continue to change with your business and your technology! But, don’t fret, we can architect our way towards this way of thinking! Let’s figure out how to be resilient and adaptive with the help of each and every team member. Ignore re-architecting your team at your own risk!
The decision and process behind rewriting or re-architecting a system is often plagued with a series of problems: people always underestimate the complexity, people never fully understand the customers, system requirements constantly change out from under them, and, in almost all cases, it takes much longer than anybody can predict. As part of this workshop, we’ll look at a couple of case studies of re-architecture to gleam strategies of success from them as well as common pitfalls to avoid. This workshop should arm you with a framework by which to approach your own decisions around how to manage, maintain, and evolve your own systems:
* understanding the underlying motivations;
* developing a method for deciding whether to evolve or to rewrite;
* managing the engineering effort of re-architecture in the midst of a changing business;
* setting up metrics to understand whether you’re on course; and
* organizing the engineering team and the culture to ensure success
Our talk covers the migration of the Twitter architecture from primarily Ruby on Rails (RoR) to a JVM-based SOA system with emphasis on high performance, scalability, and resilience to failure. General lessons include the advantages of asynchronous, real-time architectures over synchronous, process / thread-oriented systems, as well as caching and data store patterns.
http://thinkvitamin.com/events/geolocation-online-conference/
What do users want with geo?
In this session Raffi will be discussing what companies are doing right now with geo and where they are being most successful. He'll also take an in-depth look at the privacy concerns and UI implications, along with what users actually want from geo-enabled apps and where the opportunities lie in the future.
The slides to a tech talk I gave as part of @TwitterU at UC Berkeley on 9 September 2010.
See the blog post at http://mehack.com/twitter-by-the-numbers, and an animated version of the slide deck at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdY0jU697lY
Intro to developing for @twitterapi (updated)Raffi Krikorian
A short primer on how to develop for the Twitter API.
This is the newly edited version of http://www.slideshare.net/raffikrikorian/intro-to-developing-for-twitterapi
How to use Geolocation in your webapp @ FOWA Dublin 2010Raffi Krikorian
Building geolocation into your web app is becoming a necessity for almost everyone these days. It's a complex problem though, so in this session you'll learn from how Twitter is doing this and pick up important lessons for your web app.
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.
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.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
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.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
3. A couple of stories
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4.
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7. 2 500MW Coal plants per day for 41 years
(1 plant every 14 hours)
11 100MW Solar plants per day for 41 years
(1 plant every 2 hours)
480 3MW Wind farms per day for 41 years
(1 farm every 3 minutes)
3 100MW Geothermal turbines per day for 41 years
(1 turbine every 11 hours)
A 3GW Nuclear plant every 5 days for 41 years
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11. What does this mean
for a person?
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12. How does a person
understand his/her role
in climate change?
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13. How do you empower a
single person?
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33. What about the stuff
we buy?
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37. 188 x 106 Valentine’s Day cards sent
110 x 106 roses purchased
8 x 109 Necco hearts eaten
35 x 106 boxes of chocolate sold
$650 x 106 spent on gifts
44. AIRLINE PASSENGER-MILES / GALLON
Jet Blue 57.55
Continental 55.28
US Air 53.04
United 50.44
Delta 49.23
American 48.91
Southwest 48.64
Derived from mainline operations according
to the 10-K SEC filings of 2008
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