[🏫 In-Person] MIDI Controllers, Bird Data, and MAUI Magic with Tony Edwards
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This event will be a single talk on MIDI Controllers, Bird Data, and MAUI Magic with Tony Edwards
⚠️ This will be an in-person event, the venue is Sheffield Hallam University, room TBA.
🗺️ Hallam University Map: [https://www.shu.ac.uk/visit-us/how-to-find-us/city-campus-map](https://www.shu.ac.uk/visit-us/how-to-find-us/city-campus-map)
📌 Google Maps: [https://maps.app.goo.gl/kMU7RCsj3hdhWzXp9](https://maps.app.goo.gl/kMU7RCsj3hdhWzXp9)
🚗 Parking: The APCOA car park on Eyre Street is a five-minute walk from City Campus. You can park there for just £5. Just scan your blue chip at Owen Building Level 5, Charles Street, or Cantor to claim the discount.
Agenda:
🍕 Pizza/Drinks (18:15 - 18:30)
🗣 Introduction (18:30)
👉 MIDI Controllers, Bird Data, and MAUI Magic with Tony Edwards (18:35ish)
🍻 Social @ Pub (after the talk)
👉 MIDI Controllers, Bird Data, and MAUI Magic
Can you use a MIDI controller to host TV game show games with the help of an event audience? Does bird song offer the perfect dataset for these games? Will a rainbow clown wig really offer protection against minor head injuries when the audience throws things at the host?
In this session, Tony hopes to answer these questions that no one has ever asked.
Using a 500 item data set of bird sightings and recordings curated in recent years, he'll guide the audience through the creation of a few games as part of a MacCatalyst App using .NET Maui. As well as exploring the high level benefits and drawbacks of choosing MAUI for cross platform development, the session will touch on the mental health benefits of stepping away from a screen and spending time in nature, using our non-tech hobbies to support technical upskilling, and offer a jump off point for anyone looking to explore the worlds of MIDI, MAUI, and ornithology.
No knowledge of any of the topics, nor a desire to use MAUI, is required to take something away from this talk.
[🏫 In-Person] Finding Your Meme Twin with Embeddings & Vector Databases
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This event will be a single talk on Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions: Finding Your Meme Twin with Embeddings & Vector Databases with Guy Royse
⚠️ This will be an in-person event, the venue is Sheffield Hallam University, room TBA.
🗺️ Hallam University Map: [https://www.shu.ac.uk/visit-us/how-to-find-us/city-campus-map](https://www.shu.ac.uk/visit-us/how-to-find-us/city-campus-map)
📌 Google Maps: [https://maps.app.goo.gl/kMU7RCsj3hdhWzXp9](https://maps.app.goo.gl/kMU7RCsj3hdhWzXp9)
🚗 Parking: The APCOA car park on Eyre Street is a five-minute walk from City Campus. You can park there for just £5. Just scan your blue chip at Owen Building Level 5, Charles Street, or Cantor to claim the discount.
Agenda:
🍕 Pizza/Drinks (18:15 - 18:30)
🗣 Introduction (18:30)
👉 Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions: Finding Your Meme Twin with Embeddings & Vector Databases (18:35ish)
🍻 Social @ Pub (after the talk)
👉 Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions: Finding Your Meme Twin with Embeddings & Vector Databases
Do you look like a famous meme character? Does someone you know? Knowing this information is vital—both for your career and your personal life. After all, am I the only one around here who wants to avoid Angry Walter? And who *wouldn't* want to work with Success Kid.
But can we even find out if we have a meme twin? There are lots of memes. And lots of people. How could we possibly search them all? Well, it's easier than you think if we turn those memes into embeddings and search them with a vector database!
But what's an embedding? And what's a vector database? Well, that's what I'll cover in this session. I'll begin by exploring embeddings, showing how unstructured data, such as text and images, can be translated into hyper-dimensional arrays—called vectors—using both common and custom AI models. Then I'll talk about vector databases, covering what they are and how you can use them to store and search those embeddings with embeddings of your own.
Of course, we'll do this all by example. I've turned all the big memes—from Ancient Aliens Guy to Zombie Boy—into embeddings and have loaded them into a vector database. I've built an application around these embeddings and that database. I'll show you the code and the queries of this application so that you can build something similar for yourself. And, most importantly, we'll take some photos during the session and use it all to find your meme twin!
So, are you ready to find your meme twin? Or are you ready to learn how to use this technology? I say, Why Not Both.
dotnetsheff [🏫 In-Person] CI/CD, Databases, and Zombies with Paul Michaels
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This event will be a single talk on CI/CD, Databases, and Zombies with Paul Michaels
⚠️ This will be an in-person event, the venue is Sheffield Hallam University, Owen Building, Room Owen-1029. This is located on the 10th floor.
Agenda:
🍕 Pizza/Drinks (18:15 - 18:30)
🗣 Introduction (18:30)
👉 TBA (18:35ish)
🍻 Social @ Pub (after the talk)
👉 CI/CD, Databases, and Zombies
Broadly speaking, most people are aware of the concept of CI/CD these days, and the methods and techniques associated with deploying software. However, what is usually less well managed is the database that the software in question depends upon.
What methods and techniques can you employ in deploying changes to your data and schema? What happens when your code is dependent on that schema? What can you do when they fail or go wrong? How can you manage extraordinary data changes?
In this talk we’ll explore some possible solutions, and also talk about where each one might fall-down. This talk is predominantly based around relational database structures; however, some of the content may be applicable to NoSqldatabases.
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Back for our fourth year in 2017, we won’t be getting any bigger but we will be trying to get better. With nearly 50 tickets sold before we had announced a venue, date or any type of content, we expect this to be another sell out year so keep your eyes on social media if you want to guarantee your place. The main ticket sales will be around May but expect the occasional surprise releases throughout the year. Call for training and talks will also be in May, we will make lots of noise about it so it will be hard to miss.
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