Paper reading club:
bidirectional hardware language freeze

Please read the papers prior to the seminar.

When: 28 Apr Friday 19:00-22:00
Lang: RU
Where: main room

Papers of the day:
- BERT: deep bidirectional transformers optimized for embeddings
- Clash: a functional hardware description language (also additional examples)
+ a discussion on the tech hiring freeze being caused by fed interest rate hike

We’ll walk through each paper and collectively resolve any unclear spots as we do so. Then we’ll share our perspectives on the subject and figure our how the paper fits into our life.

Shall you get stuck as you read, pop over to our chat — we’ll try to help.

cur470r @add512

Anime nights:
Bubblegum Crisis (1987) OVA

When: 28.04.2023 21:30-0:00
Language: Jap + eng subs

Cyberpunk adventures of all-female group of mercenaries in powered exoskeletons.

We'll see 1-4 episodes this day, and 5-8 next week.

hosted by @cmdKid

Sound Engineering Night
"The Art of Mixing" by David Gibson

When: 06.05.2023 20:00 - 23:30
Where: F0RTHSP4CE basement
Language: eng/rus

"The Art of Mixing" is a legendary video course, which briefly introduces all of the subject basics through visual representation of sound. It not only allows you to understand sound engineering, but comes as a psychoacoustic experience itself, constantly showing viewers trippy audiovisual examples of what is being said. Content have a great balance between humor and usefulness.

Also there will be a host, who will answer all of your questions and cover all unclear spots along the way for you to fully understand the topic.

Event is being held by @nagibsta
Responsible resident @cmdkid

Hello to all gamers and game developers! We have great news for you!
Theme of Ludum Dare 53: Delivery, and we working on creating games.

Tommorow we will present game hackathon results.

We will be happy to show you the results of our game jam and discuss your opinion about our projects. If you are also participating in Ludum Dare, please bring your games with you.

30 april, 18:00, Akaki Khorava, 18, F0RTHSP4CE

by @coreglitch

HACK BASICS (theory + practice):
Writing a Lisp interpreter (PART 2)

When: Wednesday, May 3, 19:00
Languages: English or Russian

We continue our discovery of what programming and computation are in the essence. Previously we've successfully implemented a Turing machine emulator. However programs for the Turing machine do not look like programs in real languages. This time we'll implement an easily readable Lisp-like programming language able to work with numbers and strings.

What we'll learn and implement:

• Chomsky hierarchy of grammars (brief theory)
• Types of syntactic analysis (brief theory)
• Lexical analysis with a finite state machine
• Syntactic analysis with a simple recursive LL(1) parser
• S-expressions
• Garbage collection (optional)
• Lambda functions, closures
• "map", "filter", "reduce" and other typical higher-order functions

Bring a laptop with a compiler/interpreter of your choice.

hosted by @dettlaff_zero

Paper reading club:
bidirectional hardware language freeze
take 2

Please read the papers prior to the seminar.

When: 05 May Friday 19:00-22:00
Lang: RU
Where: main room

We missed last Friday due to death, sulfur and cinder emanating from the depths unknown. Now we're back, for science.

Papers of the day:
- BERT: deep bidirectional transformers optimized for embeddings
- Clash: a functional hardware description language (also additional examples)
+ a discussion on the tech hiring freeze being caused by fed interest rate hike

We’ll walk through each paper and collectively resolve any unclear spots as we do so. Then we’ll share our perspectives on the subject and figure our how the paper fits into our life.

Shall you get stuck as you read, pop over to our chat — we’ll try to help.

cur470r @add512

Anime nights:
Bubblegum Crisis (1987) OVA, part 2

When: 05.05.2023 21:30-0:00
Language: Jap + rus subs

Cyberpunk adventures of all-female group of mercenaries in powered exoskeletons.

We'll see second part of season: 5-8 episodes.

hosted by @cmdKid

Seminar: geometric
deep learning (RU)

Please work through the course materials at geometricdeeplearning.com prior to the seminar.

When: 07 May Sunday 14:00-16:00
Where: F0 main room

Our geometric party just keeps on going on and on!

We are working through an open access course on geometric deep learning — an area aiming to find new neural net designs informed by the symmetries in data. It is believed that these will learn better on solved problems (like image classification) and generalize to new domains like graphs and meshes.

Lecture 9
Chapter 4.4

We have a dedicated chat for the seminar. Do pop over with any questions.

cur470r @add512

Hey folks, we are skipping GDL today since our GDL master is off duty and we’d like to avoid having to do the derivations ourselves. Kthx, see you next Sunday

Sound Engineering Night
"The Art of Mixing" by David Gibson, part 2

When: 13.05.2023 20:00 - 23:30
Where: F0RTHSP4CE basement
Language: eng + eng subs

We'll continue watching last hour of this course and and do some practice.

Event is being held by @nagibsta
Responsible resident @cmdkid

Paper reading club:
brew your own ChatGPT

Please read the papers prior to the seminar.

Following a recent "leaked Google AI strategy memo", we are exploring if OpenAI and the gang really do have a moat — by following recent work in small large language models and cheap finetuning.

When: 12 May Friday 19:00-21:30
Where: F0 main room (free entrance, donations welcome)

Question of the day:
Do scientists agree that you can brew your own ChatGPT at home and finetune it as you wish on your laptop in an evening? Do you need a stolen LLaMA for that?

Papers of the day:
- Chinchilla, the progenitor of small large language models
- LoRA, a finetuning technique at 1/10000 the cost
- Commoditize your complement, a principle of tech economics

We’ll walk through each paper and collectively resolve any unclear spots as we do so. Then we’ll share our perspectives on the subject and figure our how the paper fits into our life.

Shall you get stuck as you read, pop over to our chat — we’ll try to help.

cur470r @add512

2nd Pessimistic Future Cinema Night @ F0RTHSP4CE

Children of Men

Date: 17/05/2023
Starting at: 20:00 PM
Duration: 1:49
Sound: English
Subtitles: English
Responsible resident: @kramxkomitus

Lalambda school
tusa

When: 21 May Sunday 18:00-20:00
Where: F0 main room

A summer school on hacking, microelectronics design, programming language theory, machine learning and contemporary art is coming to Tbilisi this July.

We meet on Sunday to acquaint ourselves, sync up about courses content and move it towards our particular interests, do a vibe check, and get some kombucha and/or wine.

The event will include a potpourri of school lecturers, organizers, and participants (and a certain amount of tusa). If that's your first time hearing about the school, you are welcome to join as well to mingle and get a feel for what we plan for the summer.

cur470r @add512

F0RTHSP4CE is a hackerspace and a community of enthusiasts focusing on art, technology, and based in Tbilisi.

We host a plethora of events, all of which are free to attend. We have a bunch of geek stuff and you're welcome to swing by! The space is open during the announced events or when a resident is in space and ready to let you in (ask in chat).

If you would like to make an event, ping @dettlaff_zero or any other resident.

Address: Akaki Khorava Street, 18 (open when residents are nearby)
Contribute event/workshop/lecture: PM any resident / event host
Donations: use the cash box in the space to help us pay rent
Links: event calendar (iCal), YouTube, Facebook.

Paper reading club:
computationally expensive

Please read the papers prior to the seminar.

So you invented a cool new algorithm! Low complexity, high power, atta boy! What's left is implementing it to scale.
Today's papers are about how initial research results get implemented by seasoned systems engineers.

When: 02 June Friday 19:00-21:30
Where: F0 main room (free entrance, donations welcome)

Question of the day:
How much progress in Computer Science happens due to algorithm improvement and how much is plain old CPUs getting faster? What are some cheap tricks I can use to make my code fast beyond the usual if I'm doing bespoke machine learning or novel algorithm design?

Papers of the day:
- Algorithmic vs hardware improvements in SAT over the last 20 years (also background reading on SAT)
- FlashAttention is what happens when HPC programmers implement attention.

We’ll walk through each paper and collectively resolve any unclear spots as we do so. Then we’ll share our perspectives on the subject and figure our how the paper fits into our life.

Shall you get stuck as you read, pop over to our chat — we’ll try to help.

cur470r @add512

Media jam

Well known music jam reborn as media jam now!

Bring some synths, musical instruments
and cables to connect them to mixer.

Bring laptops, video devices and converters
to produce some video or light art.

We have:
— Audio mixer
— ArtNet – DMX adapter
— DMX washes and moving heads
— DMX LED strip
— Bottle display
— DMX Laser
— Smoke machine
— Projector with hdmi/av input
— 3 CRT TV
— Kaoss Pad Entrancer
— USB VideoIn adapter

When: Saturday, 03.06.2023 16:00 – 20:00
Where: basement @ Akaki Khorava, 18

hosted by @cmdKid and @coreglitch

Seminar: geometric
deep learning

Please work through the course materials at geometricdeeplearning.com prior to the seminar.

When: 04 Jun Sunday 14:00-16:00
Where: F0 main room

We are working through an open access course on geometric deep learning — an area aiming to find new neural net designs informed by the symmetries in data. It is believed that these will learn better on solved problems (like image classification) and generalize to new domains like graphs and meshes.

Lecture 10 (Gauges)
Chapter 4.5

We have a dedicated chat for the seminar. Do pop over with any questions.

cur470r @add512

Difference between Priority and Severity of tasks/bugs plan

Get ready for an exciting lecture that will help you understand the difference between Priority and Severity when it comes to managing tasks and bugs. We'll start by defining Priority and Severity in product development and show you how to set Severity for bugs effectively. You'll also learn about the classic Priority/Severity matrix and discover how to create a customized matrix based on your product's unique features. We'll make it interactive by working together to create a Priority/Severity matrix for a sample project. By the end of the lecture, you'll have the knowledge and tools to prioritize tasks and bugs with confidence. Don't miss out on this informative session!

Lang: EN
When: Sunday, 11.06.2023 16:00 – 17:00
Where: basement @ Akaki Khorava, 18

hosted by: @lalala454

HACK BASICS (theory + practice):
Building your own UNIX distribution from scratch

When: Wednesday, June 7, 20:00
Languages: English; or Russian, if everyone understands it

We'll learn:

• What a UNIX operating system consists of
• How it is booted
• How to compile programs with custom libc

We'll build a simple distribution with Linux kernel, musl libc, Busybox userland and some other programs.

hosted by @dettlaff_zero