Paper reading club:
batch lottery topology²

Please read the papers prior to the seminar.

When: 14 Mar Friday 19:00-22:00
Lang: RU
Where: main room

We're doing something different this time: we'll discuss two papers we read at home, and then watch two talks from a recent conference.

Papers of the day:
- An empirical model of large-batch training
- The Hardware Lottery

Talks of the day:
- Topology meets BERTology
- Topology strikes back

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.

HACK BASICS (practice): writing an implementation of the Turing machine

When: Wednesday, April 12, 19:00
Languages: English or Russian

This time we'll write an implementation of the Turing machine. Because this is a purely programming task you may choose whatever programming language you want. Take a laptop with a compiler/interpreter of your choice.

hosted by @dettlaff_zero

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

When: Wednesday, April 19, 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

Urgent announce!

Starship Flight Test
come to us, let's watch the broadcast of the launch together

When: Monday, April 17, 16:00 — Already today!
Languages: English

SpaceX is targeting as soon as Monday, April 17 at 8:00 a.m. CT for the first flight test of a fully integrated Starship and Super Heavy rocket from Starbase in Texas.

https://www.youtube.com/live/L5QXreqOrTA

hosted by @coreglitch

Anime nights:
Suzume no tojimari (2022)

When: 2023.04.21 20:30
Duration: 02:02:00
Language: Jap + eng subs

Director: Makoto Shinkai

hosted by @cmdKid

Friends, we apologize, the lecturer is sick.
Hackbasics is rescheduled for next week.

Paper reading club:
transformers dsl

Please read the papers prior to the seminar.

When: 21 Apr Friday 19:00-22:00
Lang: RU
Where: main room

Papers of the day:
- Attention is all you need, a seminal paper that introduced transformers
- Halide: decoupling algorithms from schedules for high-performance tensor processing describes the design of a popular HPC DSL

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

DIY Web Security Testing

When: Friday, April 21, 17:00
Languages: English or Russian

First lecture in the series of events on web security testing. The lecture will cover recon techniques, search/exploitation of common vulnerabilities, and more. This will serve as a foundational introduction to the web-pentest.

Enter: free/donation

hosted by @anthonyharmitage

Mic & Pedals jam
When: 23.04.2023 16:00 - 19:00
Where: basement @ F0RTHSP4CE
Language: eng/rus

This jam is about sound you can produce
with your mouth, nose, body and everything else.

Bring your mics, pedals, loopers and cables, please.

Hosting resident: @cmdKid

Seminar: geometric
deep learning

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

When: 23 Apr Sunday 14:00-16:00
Lang: RU
Where: 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.

We are now officially past 51% of the lecture material, oh my!

Lecture 7
Chapter 4.2

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

cur470r @add512

We're sorry for last week's cancellation, but we're back.

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

When: Wednesday, April 26, 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

Hey, guys! Ludum Dare is coming up!

Ludum Dare is an awesome global online game jam. And now, we'll finally gather at the hackspace to collaborate and immerse ourselves in the shared atmosphere. Here is the rules.
Join us next weekend to create games!

We kick off at 10:00 on April 29, and the jam lasts for two days.

You can come as a team, participate solo, or form a team right at the event. You can write code, create storylines, draw, make music – anything that can be turned into a game!

Please note that we have limited spots available, so registration is mandatory. Participation is free, but donations are welcome.

If you don't want to participate in the hackathon itself, you're still welcome to bring your game for the final presentation at 18:00 on April 30.

hosted by @coreglitch

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