Movie nights:
The Hackers (1995)
When: 09.06.2023 21:30
Language: Eng + eng subs

Classic movie with Matthew Lillard, Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller.
Young hackers having fun in the dawn of cyberpunk and boring adults choke themself with greed.

hosted by @cmdKid

ML lectures:
4 for the price of 1

We are hosting a series of quick ML lectures to prepare for the summer school. Each speaker has 30min to explain their paper of choice — so you can acquaint yourself with four topics over a single evening.

When: 09 June Friday 19:00-21:30
Where: F0 main room (free entrance, donations welcome)

Today's topics cover Transformers, the dominant natural language processing architecture of today and their extension to image processing; Batch normalization, a classic trick to improve learning; and Mesaoptimizers, a classic observation in AI Safety.

Topics:
- Transformers (pdf, @artempt239)
- Vision Transformers (pdf, @alexgalayda)
- Batch normalization (pdf, @metya)
- Mesaoptimisers (pdf, @add512)

Please direct any qs to out paper reading chat.

cur470r @add512

Shader party

We are starting regular event about shaders, 3D and 2G generative graphics and GLSL.
This Sunday we will talk about FXHash/Universal rayhatcher. Also bring your own shaders, talking about it and do some livecoding!

Lang: RU/GLSL
When: Sunday, 11.06.2023 18:00 – 21:00
Where: basement @ Akaki Khorava, 18

hosted by: @coreglitch

Seminar: geometric
deep learning

OMG dearies! Can you believe it's our last GDL meetup? Time sure flies by fast!! Now only to brush up on our functorial no-ha and explore all the fancy applications...

When: 11 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.

Lectures 11 and 12 (Category theory and Conclusions)
also Book

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

cur470r @add512

Lalambda school
tusa++

When: 18 Jun Sunday 19:00-21:00
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're doing a low-key social gathering 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.

animation credits mdbecker
cur470r @add512

HACK BASICS (theory + practice):
Basic hacking techniques

When: Wednesday, June 14, 20:00
Languages: English; or Russian, if everyone understands it

We'll learn some basic attacks on web applications and hack a special web application made vulnerable.

cur470r: @dettlaff_zero

Anime nights: 2 in 1
When: 17.06.2023 20:00
Language: Jap + rus subs

Battle Angel (OVA) 1993 (59 min)
Cyborg girl rises from the slums in the world of scumbag bounty hunters.

Black Magic M-66 (47 min)
Classic evil military mecha vs bucket of human flesh.


hosted by @cmdKid

Randomness Extraction: How Random Makes Random

A lecture about randomness extraction, its inner structure, application, goodness and use in the everyday life

Expect intuitive basics of information theory, Shannon encoding, Linux kernel, dice, coins, prime numbers and a ruler acting as an archiver.

When: 19 June Monday, 20:00
Where: F0 main room
Lang: English/Russian
Curator: @pvl_wtf

Discussion:
Taleb's "Fooled by Randomness", chapters 1–3

Taleb, renowned for his concepts of the black swan and antifragility, has established himself as a prominent essayist. In his earlier work, "Fooled by Randomness," he presents a pragmatic framework for probabilistic thinking that remains resilient in the face of noise.

We meet to discuss chapters 1–3 of the book, exchange insights, grok out the confusing parts, learn how to pronounce "Taleb" and spend time with likeminded people.

The meet has a newly set up chat. Do swing by!

When: 25 Jun Sunday 14:00-16:00
Where: F0RTHSP4CE, Akaki Khorava, 18, main room (free entrance, donations welcome)
cur470r @add512
m@s13r @ReworrR

Infosec coworking

There's daily work, and then there's stuff you've been meaning to learn or a pet project you've been putting off. It can be hard to find the time for the latter, so here you have it: time, place, company, and your project.

This is a structured coworking for all things infosec: writing an exploit? Dumping a stubborn flash? Writing a Wireshark plugin? Reading a book on crypto? Playing with fuzzing? You are most welcome.

The meet has a newly set up chat. Do swing by!

When: 26 Jun Monday 17:00-20:00
Where: F0RTHSP4CE, Akaki Khorava, 18, main room (free entrance, donations welcome)
cur470r @crow_fff
m@s13r @ReworrR

🤳🏽🍄 3D NIGHT IS BACK!
8:00PM Thursday, June 29
F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St, 18

Threory: we'll be diving into a recent state-of-the art method for densely estimating motion of a scene from a video — Optical Flow and Dynamic 3D Reconstruction.

Practice: we will attempt to provide a beginner-friendly introduction to NeRF Studio / Google Colab. And continue to play with GLSL language and learn the Book of Shaders in shadertoy/fragment shader engine.

Speakers: @Xallt @munrocket @coreglitch
Language: RU/GLSL
Entrance: free/donation

Waaaaagh building attention!

We'd like to upgrade DIY area in F0rthSp4ce by adding:
- workbench for mechanical work
- upgrade 3D printers
- shelves for better storage

This equipment will become a part of our public infrastructure and any visitor will have opportunity to use it.


If you'd like to help us make f0rthspa4ce better, our target is 868,5 Lari
and you can support us any way you like:

- by direct money transfer (no transaction comments, please):
CREDO: GE54CD0360000035295658, Iakov Medovikov (GEL, USD, EUR, RUB)
BOG: GE32BG0000000545731740, Bulat Saliakhutdinov (GEL, USD, EUR)

- by donating in cryptocurency on our wallets.

You can also donate us specific material from our table, if you have some.

If you'd like to donate, but any other way, please, contact @cmdKid, and we'll try to find a solution.

🔓 Announcement: Exciting Changes at Hackerspace!

🔹 We're happy to announce a significant change in our financial terms. The base membership fee has been reduced to just $25! 🎉

📣 Our aim with this change is to make it even easier for individuals to become residents and actively contribute to our community.

📌 We expect our new residents to embrace responsibility for the space and uphold our core principles. We value respect for others and a willingness to find consensus within our community. Another very important principle is to give more than you take. Our space live when each member contributes to its growth, so we are all the ones who make the workspaces for each other.

🏠 To become a resident, simply PM @cmdKid or @coreglitch. In your message, briefly introduce yourself, highlighting your skills and hobbies, and let us know what Hackerspace means to you and what activities or projects you're interested in.

Media jam

📅 18:00PM Saturday, July 8
📍 F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St, 18

And jam again!

🎶 🎵

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, speakers
🎹 a lot of synth
✨ ArtNet – DMX adapter, DMX washes and moving heads, DMX LED strip, DMX Laser
🍾 Bottle display 🍾
💨 Smoke machine
📽 Projector with hdmi/av input
📺 3 CRT TV
🌀 Kaoss Pad Entrancer
🔌 USB VideoIn adapter

hosted by @cmdKid and @coreglitch
Entrance: free/donation

Spontaneous Event:
Study of production technologies

We going to discuss essential information for utilizing the F0space maker's equipment, converse practical aspects of the technologies, and conduct a brief hands-on workshop. During the workshop, we will examine slicing techniques for printing and attempt to create epoxy miniatures.

List of available technologies showcased at the event:
FDM - Plastic 3D Printing
SLA - UV Resin 3D Printing
Silicone Mold Casting

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Внезапное событие:
3D-печать и литьё

Мы обсудим ключевые моменты работы с оборудованием F0 в теории и практике и проведём краткий мастер-класс. Во время мастер-класса мы познакомимся с техникой слайсинга для печати и попробуем создать миниатюры из эпоксидной смолы.

Будут представлены:
FDM - 3D-печать из пластика
SLA - 3D-печать с использованием УФ-смолы
Литье в силиконовые формы

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Location: F0RTHSP4CE (https://f0rth.space/visit-us.html), Akaki Khorava, 18, main room (free admission, donations appreciated)
Time: Wed July 5, 19:00
Language: Russian
Curator/Lecturer: @kramxkomitus

🍄 Graph Diffusion 🤯
14:00 Sun, July 9
F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St, 18

Let's imagine you have a big bag of different color candies and you're at a playground with your friends. You want to share your candies with them, but you have a rule. Each friend can only pass candies to the ones they're standing next to.

In the beginning, the candies are only with you. But then you start passing them to your friends next to you, who then pass some of these to their friends, and so on. After a while, all of your friends in the playground have some of your candies. They might not all have the same types or the same amount, but they've all got a mix based on who they were next to and when.

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Давай представим, что у тебя большой мешок разноцветных конфет, и ты на детской площадке со своими друзьями. Ты хочешь поделиться своими конфетами, но у тебя есть правило. Каждый друг может передавать конфеты только тем, кто стоит рядом с ним.

Вначале конфеты только у тебя. Но затем ты начинаешь передавать их своим друзьям рядом, которые в свою очередь передают часть из них своим друзьям, и так далее. Через некоторое время у всех твоих друзей на площадке есть сколько-то твоих конфет. Возможно, не у всех одинаковые виды или одинаковое количество, но у всех есть набор, основанный на том, кто был рядом и когда.

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@Mikhail_Mironov will give a talk on graph diffusion — think GNNs meet Stable Diffusion. We'll briefly cover the background and turn to the emerging approaches in the area.

Entrance: free/donation
cur470r @add512

🎲 Randomness Extraction 🎯
How Random Makes Random - Part 2
20:00 Wed, 12 July
F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St, 18

Continued talk about extracting random numbers from random events. We will discover randomness extractor devoid of all fatal flaws.

First lecture is up on YouTube

Lang: English
Lecturer: Mark
Curator: @pvl_wtf

💆‍♂️ 3D NIGHT - Facefork 🔌
8:00 PM Thursday, July 13
F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St, 18

🧑‍🔧 @xallt show tools for creating a 3D reconstruction of your face: mesh/NeRF-based techniques, trivial approaches, industry-level approaches.
📊 Using SIREN to convert mesh to tiny sdf for shadertoy. @munrocket compare this method with vertex array raytracing
💻 Shaders integration with other programs, control of uniforms through external methods by @coreglitch and @ildar_io

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🧑‍🔧 @xallt покажет инструменты, которые вы можете использовать для создания 3D-реконструкции вашего лица: методы на основе меша/NeRF, тривиальные подходы, профессиональные подходы отраслевого уровня
📊 Использование SIREN для преобразования меша в крошечный sdf, который подходит для Shadertoy. @munrocket сравнит этот метод с трассировкой лучей массива вершин
💻 Интеграция шейдеров с другими программами, управление юниформами внешними методами от @coreglitch и @ildar_io

Language: RU
Entrance: free/donation

🕵️‍♂️ Hack the accidents and incidents
18:00 PM Saturday, July 15
F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St, 18, basement

Мы начинаем цикл мероприятий о разборе техногенных аварий и инцидентов. Сложные технические системы создаются с приоритетом безопасности, но несмотря на все усилия создателей, жизнь умудряется найти в них баги, снова показав человечеству необходимость движения к совершенству. Каждый такой случай — «технический детектив» и мы хотим обсудить некоторые из них.

Тема первой встречи — ядерные инциденты. Кыштым, Токаймура, Гояния, Краматорск, Уиндскейл, Три-майл-айленд.

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Starting a series of events on technogenic accidents and incidents analysis. Complex systems prioritize safety, but life uncovers "loopholes" and "bugs". Every case is a unique "tech detective story".

The topic of the first meeting is nuclear incidents. Kyshtym, Tokaimura, Goiânia, Kramatorsk, Windscale, Three Mile Island.

Host: @coreglitch
Language: RU
Entrance: free/donation

Meetup: Kevin Mitnick and Social Engineering
18:00 PM Sunday 23 July
F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St, 18, openspace

Recently, Kevin Mitnick, probably the world's most famous hacker, passed away. Let's meet up and discuss Kevin Mitnick's work in the field of Social Engineering. We will go through his books "The Art of Deception" and "Ghost in the Wires", exploring his stories, the techniques and tricks he used.

Недавно скончался Кевин Митник, наверное, самый известный в мире хакер. Давайте встретимся и обсудим работу Кевина Митника в области социальной инженерии. Мы пройдемся по его книгам «Искусство обмана» и «Призрак в сети», изучая его истории, приемы и уловки, которые он использовал.

Host: @Reworr , @pvl_wtf
Language: RU
Entrance: free/donation