Friday Hacks #255 🍄

🗓 Date/Time: Friday, 22 Mar, 7pm
📍 Venue: COM3-01-20 Seminar Room 11
🍕Food and🧋Drinks will be served!

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Talk #2: ERP X: Road Charges, Reimagined
ERP X is an exploration of what road charging in Singapore could look like. The concept is simple: use roadside cameras to read license plate numbers, and inform drivers via a mobile app. Learn about how the team went through the process of exploring, designing and building the prototype in the span of a month. This product came from Hack for Public Good 2024, Open Government Product's annual hackathon.

Speaker Profile
Justyn Oh is a software engineer at Open Government Products. He works on FormSG, Checkpoint and ERP X. In his spare time, you can find Justyn playing board games, bouldering, chilling at a cafe or writing code in OCaml. He has a B.S. Physics with an additional major in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

See you there 👋

Hello everyone 👋,

Thank you for waiting. We've posted the video of our Hackerschool sessions on YouTube.

Introduction to Databases & SQL: https://youtu.be/8wlxAMnZsHY
Generative AI & Prompt Engineering: https://youtu.be/ZZNu1VfYzHw

Hackerschool: Introductions to Large Language Models

🗓 Wednesday, 27 Mar, 7pm to 9pm
📍 COM3-01-25
🧁 Refreshments will be served!

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Having fun in last week's workshop and would like to learn more? Get ready for another engaging session where we'll dive even deeper into the world of chatbot customization!

In this workshop, we'll explore:

🔹 RAG Techniques: Discover how to take your chatbot to the next level with retrieval augmented generation techniques.

🔹 Generative AI Project Lifecycle: Learn the ins and outs of developing a generative AI project, from conception to launch.

🔹 Opportunities and Risks: Gain insights into the potential opportunities and risks that generative AI technologies present to individuals, businesses, and society.

Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to learn something new and have fun doing it!

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Hackers Toolbox: Shell and Scripting

🗓 Tuesday, 26 Mar, 6.30pm-8.30pm
📍 SR 11 @ SoC (COM3 01-20)

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The shell is a fast, efficient textual interface to your computer. Come learn to use the shell, and write shell scripts, to do things from managing files and processing text, to writing quick scripts that help you automate and speed up your daily computing life.

Please ensure you have access to a POSIX-compatible shell, such as Bash. If you are on macOS or a Linux distribution, you are set; if you use Windows, consider installing Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) or Ubuntu in VirtualBox.
- WSL: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

This workshop is largely based on the Missing Semester of Your CS Education lecture series conducted in MIT. This week's topic is based on https://missing.csail.mit.edu/2020/shell-tools/.

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Friday Hacks #256 🐝

🗓️ Date/Time: Friday, 5 Apr, 7pm
📍 Venue: COM3-01-20 Seminar Room 11
🍕 Food and🧋drinks will be served!

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Talk #1: Livestreams are Fun! Creating + Hosting a RTMP relay server with Google Cloud's ecosystem
Work from home has become a thing for most industries, and that same notion has impacted online events. But what if we need to stream this content to multiple platforms simultaneously? We look at tackling this problem using Google Cloud Platform, and hosting a fully managed RTMP server for relaying a live-stream to these different platforms, while looking at additional functionalities we can implement on this RTMP server with the different tools of Google Cloud.

Speaker Profile
Weiyuan Liu is a Google Developer Expert in Google Cloud, and his day job is to serve as a Senior Engineering Manager at Ascenda. Outside of work, he helps to run GDG Cloud Singapore, and also founded "Big O(n) Development", focused on improving and developing the careers of others.

Friday Hacks #256 🐝

🗓️ Date/Time: Friday, 5 Apr, 7pm
📍 Venue: COM3-01-20 Seminar Room 11
🍕 Food and🧋drinks will be served!

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Talk #2: The Misunderstood Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
Most computer science, engineering, and data science students would have encountered principal component analysis (PCA). Most likely, PCA was introduced to you as a dimension reduction technique and perhaps as a data visualization technique. However, these are merely byproducts of what PCA was originally formulated for, which is the deconvolution of variations in the input data into orthogonal (and hopefully meaningful) directions.

Speaker Profile
Wong Limsoon is a Kwan-Im-Thong-Hood-Cho-Temple Professor in Computing at NUS. Recognized for his contributions to database theory and computational biology, he was honored as a Fellow of the ACM in 2013. Limsoon's research embodies insight into a problem, coupled with an elegant and logical exploitation of that insight.

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Hacker Tools: Self-Hosting 💻

🗓 Tuesday, 2 Apr, 6.30pm-8.30pm
📍 SR 11 @ SoC (COM3 01-20)
🥐 Light refreshments will be provided!

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Are you tired of relying on third-party services for your online needs? Planning to build a really cool Orbital project but not sure how to deploy it? Learn how to host your own projects and share them with the world through our self-hosted workshop 😉

Prerequisites:
- do set up VPS before the session (Feel free to check out this link or ask in the chat!)
- If you’re a student, you can use your school email to get a Github Student Developer Pack for a free domain and credits. (https://education.github.com/pack)
- If you’re a member of the public, you can set up free instances of Google Cloud Engine and follow along!
- If you have a Github Student Developer Pack, do also grab a free domain from namecheap!

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Hackerschool: Introduction to Explainable AI (XAI)

🗓 Thursday, 4 Apr, 7pm to 9pm
📍 COM3-01-20
🧁 Refreshments will be served!

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Curious about Explainable AI (XAI) and its real-world impact? Join us for a hands-on workshop with Fintech ML to discover the essentials!

🔍 Explore the evolution of XAI and its vital role in ethics and compliance.
🎓 Learn key concepts and techniques like LIME and SHAP.
🖥️ Get hands-on experience with RandomForestClassifier and XAI methods.

Don't miss out on this opportunity to enhance your understanding of AI transparency and its practical applications, especially in FinTech!

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Hello everyone 👋,

We've posted the video of our Hackerschool: Introduction to Large Language Models session on YouTube.

You may view it here.

Hello everyone 👋,

We have posted the videos of our Friday Hacks sessions on YouTube. You may view them here:

Friday Hacks #254 Talk #1: Exciting Trends in Music Technology with Deep Learning

Friday Hacks #254 Talk #2: Time Synchronization Protocols in Distributed Systems

Friday Hacks #255 Talk #1: Creating prototypes that prove a point

Friday Hacks #255 Talk #2: ERP X: Road Charges, Reimagined

Friday Hacks #257 🧶

🗓️ Date/Time: Friday, 12 Apr, 7pm
📍 Venue: COM3-01-20 Seminar Room 11
🍕 Food and🧋drinks will be served!

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Talk #2: The New XOR Problem
Minsky and Papert’s Perceptrons in 1969 mentions the limitations of the perceptron, namely the XOR problem, which has often been cited as a factor for the first AI winter. These problems have largely been overcome with MLPs / deeper networks, but recent focus on the Transformer architecture, while successful in many ways, introduce new limitations. These limitations echo the XOR problem in some interesting ways. We will cover some history of AI research and have a quick overview of what the limitations entail, with a focus on an XOR-like problem. Finally, we will cover some examples of what pitfalls to avoid if you're trying to use these models in your project.

Speaker Profile
Shawn Tan is a graduating PhD student from the Montreal Institute of Learning Algorithms, and will join the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab as a Research Scientist.

Friday Hacks #257 🧶

🗓️ Date/Time: Friday, 12 Apr, 7pm
📍 Venue: COM3-01-20 Seminar Room 11
🍕 Food and🧋drinks will be served!

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Talk #1: How to *Actually* Become Data Driven
People often say things like "become data driven" without explaining what that means or how to do it. This talk will cover everything you need to know about ACTUALLY becoming data driven, and from first principles. No bullshit, no hand-wavy sketches, no fancy technology, no buzzwords. Just a small set of effective ideas, that — for what it's worth, turn out to be the same ideas that Amazon, Koch Industries, and Toyota used to become data driven, back in their day.

Speaker Profile
Cedric Chin helped create the NUS Hackers. He started his own company, helped another company double their annual recurring revenue, and then spent four months training Judo full time just for the heck of it. He now runs his own thing and writes at Commoncog.

Hackerschool: Introduction
to Large-Scale AI Model Techniques Workshop

🗓 Tuesday, 9 Apr, 7pm to 9pm
📍 COM3-01-25
🧁 Refreshments will be served!

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Are you ready to explore the fascinating world of large-scale AI models? In this workshop, you will:

🔍 Dive into concepts like parallelism, optimization, quantization, and pruning.
🎓 Gain a quick yet comprehensive understanding of AI model development.
💡 Perfect for beginners seeking to grasp the basics of large model training and inference in no time!

Speaker's profile:
Quqi obtained Master’s Degree in Data Science and Machine Learning from NUS. His expertise is in Machine Learning with a focus in of distributed training and AI System. Currently, Quqi is a Quantitative Developer at QRT after the completion of his 3-month internship.

See you there 👋

Hi everyone, we're starting our Hackerschool session on Introduction to Large-scale AI Model Techniques soon.

Do come down if you're interested to learn more about it!

Hello everyone 👋,

We have posted the videos of our Friday Hacks sessions on YouTube. You may view them here:

Friday Hacks #256: Talk #1: Livestreams are Fun with Google Cloud's ecosystem

Friday Hacks #256: Talk #2 The Misunderstood Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

Friday Hacks #257: Talk #1: How to Actually Become Data Driven

Friday Hacks #257: Talk #2 The New XOR Problem

Thank you for joining us at Friday Hacks! Hope to see you again next semester! 🌟🌟