Introductory Workshop to liveconding music and Algorave from @alex_notch.

This Wednesday 25.01.23 , 19.00 - 20.30
(language: English / Russian)

I'll show you how to get started with Supercollider + TidalCycles. Recommend coming with them already pre-downloaded and installed on your hardware.

I'll explain basics of tidal cycles language and notation, some basic concepts from music theory and how they are implemented in code.

Here is an example of what liveconding is.

Hack Basics series: UNIX theory & practice

When: Thursday, January 26, 19:30
Language: English/Russian

* History of UNIX-like operating systems.
* Infrastructure of UNIX-like operating system and basic concepts.
* UNIX shell: practice.
* Additional practice lesson on UNIX programming (for more experienced participants).

We recommend to grab a laptop with a UNIX-like operating system
(GNU/Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, etc.), *BSD, MacOS and others) a virtual machine or an SSH client.

ALGO MEETUP
28 Jan Saturday 14:00 - 19:00

Series of events, dedicated to learning algorithms and solving LeetCode problems. Nice option to prepare for job interviews.

topic: Search
At first we will have a small lecture about binary search, ternary search, naive search tree, etc. Then we will solve 3-4 medium/hard LeetCode problems together using these algorithms. Use your favorite programming language.

Minimal participant requirements: you have already successfully solved easy problems at LeetCode.
Max 10 people, please comment if you want to participate.

RETRO GAMING
Friday, January 27th, 20:00
F0RTHSP4CE Basement
Lang: RU / ENG

Come to us and fight for your survival on modded real Amiga 1200 in Another World (1991).
Try not to screw up with any of your experiments and not to end up in the alien world before that moment, please. Ugh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_World_(video_game)

Saturday event: 4th Cyberpunk Anime Night @ F0RTHSP4CE

We are going to watch Ghost in the Shell downstairs

Date: 28/01/2023
Starting at: 20:00 PM
Duration: 1:22
Sound: Japanese
Subtitles: English

Unlocking the secrets of networking: L2

When: 1 Feb 2023 20:30
Where: main room @ F0RTHSP4CE
Language: english / russian

Discover the fundamentals of L2 protocols in this comprehensive lecture.
Learn about the L2 layer in OSI and TCP/IP models, packet switching, CAM tables, broadcast, unicast, and multicast, STP and RSTP protocols, VLAN's, tagging, and trunking, Linux bridges, ARP protocol, and ARP spoofing mitigation.
Enhance your practical skills with hands-on labs in CISCO Packet Tracer and Virtualbox.

Requirements: Laptop with CISCO packet tracer(in attachment) and Virtualbox installed.

Paper reading club:
Deep Equilibrium Models, Paxos,
& infosec for sex workers and politicians

When: 03 Feb Friday 19:00-22:00
Lang: RU
Where: main room

Papers of the day:
- Deep Equilibrium Models: running sequential models with constant memory
- The Part-Time Parliament and Paxos Made Simple: a cornerstone in consensus
- Surveying infosec practices of politicians and sex workers

Read the papers and come discuss them! 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.

Event co-organized by F0 and paper reading club.

5th Cyberpunk Anime Night @ F0RTHSP4CE

Last week we decided to watch something else, so Ghost in the Shell is left for this Saturday

Date: 04/02/2023
Starting at: 20:00 PM
Duration: 1:22
Sound: Japanese
Subtitles: English

ALGO MEETUP
4 Feb Saturday 14:00 - 19:00

Series of events, dedicated to learning algorithms and solving LeetCode problems. Nice option to prepare for job interviews.

topic: Graphs
At first we will have a small lecture about basic graph definitions, graph traversals, DFS and BFS. Then we will solve 3-4 medium/hard LeetCode problems together using these algorithms. Use your favorite programming language.

Minimal participant requirements: you have already successfully solved easy problems at LeetCode.
Max 10 people, please comment if you want to participate and not already in the group.

Spontaneous Introduction to Haskell

This Sunday (05/02/23) at 18:00 we'll write our first (and hopefully not the last) Haskell program

Part I:

We'll learn how to read Prelude, how to fight the type checker and how to build at least a hello world.

Part II:

Everyone who wants to try can choose a well-known unix program (e.g. cat, ls or grep) and attempt to create a simplified clone of it in Haskell (it's OK if you have a better idea)

Language: Russian or English

Bring your own laptops with GHC and Cabal pre-installed

RETRO GAMING
Friday, February 10th, 20:00
F0RTHSP4CE Basement
Lang: RU / ENG

This friday a bunch of lunatics will descend to the bullet hell to challenge youkai in Touhou Project on PC-98 (1996–1998). Come and join us, bring your Fumo dolls, and take it easy.

Hack Basics series: Git theory & practice

When: Thursday, February 9, 19:00-21:00
Language: English/Russian

* History of version control systems
* Interactive dive in Git commands
* Branching models and workflows
* Best practices

We recommend to grab a laptop with a pre-installed git client.

Max 15 persons, please comment if you want to participate ⤵️

Spontaneous Introduction to Haskell

Date: Sunday 12/02/2023
Starting at: 18:00 PM
Duration: 4-6 hours
Language: Russian

This Sunday (12/02/23) at 18:00 we'll write our second (and hopefully not the last) Haskell program.

Part I:

We'll continue wrapping our heads around monads and speak more about syntax and semantics.

Part II:

Practice.

Bring your own laptops with GHC and Cabal pre-installed (this is a requirement)

Link to the study group: https://t.me/+LtB7BkG72Vc4Mzcy

@klntsky and @aka_dude

ALGO MEETUP
11 Feb Saturday 14:00 - 19:00

Series of events, dedicated to learning algorithms and solving LeetCode problems. Nice option to prepare for job interviews.

topic: Graphs part 1
At first we will have a small lecture about topological sort, shortest paths, Eulerian and Hamilton paths. Then we will solve 3-4 medium/hard LeetCode problems together using these algorithms. Use your favorite programming language.

Minimal participant requirements: you have already successfully solved easy problems at LeetCode.
Max 10 people, please comment if you want to participate and not already in the group.

6th Cyberpunk Anime Night @ F0RTHSP4CE

Continue watching GITS Innocence this Saturday

Date: 11/02/2023
Starting at: 20:00 PM
Duration: 1:39
Sound: Japanese
Subtitles: English or Russian

Unlocking the secrets of networks: L3

Date: 16.02.2023
Time: 20:30
Registration: in comments

Join us for a lecture on the fundamentals of Layer 3 (L3) protocols in computer networks.
In this session, we will dive deep into the mechanics of IP addressing, subnetting, netmasks, netmask counting, and classless addressing.
We will explore the IPv4 protocol and its packet structure, including the sub protocols needed for IP, ICMP, PMTU discovery, and PMTU black hole.
We will also discuss Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) and Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) and how they relate to L3 networking.
Additionally, we will cover Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and how it fits into L3 networks.

Lastly, we will examine the latest version of the IP protocol, IPv6, and its subprotocols.
We will compare and contrast IPv4 and IPv6 and discuss  their respective benefits and drawbacks.
This lecture is perfect for anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of L3 networks and their underlying protocols.

Paper reading club:
language models + acid

When: 17 Feb Friday 19:00-22:00
Lang: RU
Where: main room

Topics:
- key papers on in-context/zero-shot learning i.e. using language models with minimal finetuning and an instruction finetuning approach to prompt engineering
- a synthesis of hierarchical predictive processing, a default brain function model, and the entropic brain hypothesis, a model of psychedelics action

Papers of the day:
Finetuned Language Models Are Zero-Shot Learners
Multitask Prompted Training Enables Zero-Shot Task Generalization
Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback
Improving alignment of dialogue agents via targeted human judgements
Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models
REBUS and the Anarchic Brain: Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelics

Read the papers and come discuss them!

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

Event co-organized by F0 and paper reading club.

Spontaneous Introduction to Haskell #3

Date: Sunday 19/02/2023
Starting at: 18:00 PM
Duration: 5-6 hours
Language: Russian

Last week we wrote a few functions that work on lists and tested them using QuickCheck. This week we are going to focus more on monad type class, its well-known instances, and learn about monad transformers.

Bring your own laptops with GHC and Cabal pre-installed (this is a requirement)

Link to the study group: https://t.me/+LtB7BkG72Vc4Mzcy

@klntsky and @aka_dude

ALGO MEETUP
18 Feb Saturday 14:00 - 19:00

Series of events, dedicated to learning algorithms and solving LeetCode problems. Nice option to prepare for job interviews.

topic: Dynamic programming
At first we will have a small lecture about principles of dynamic programming, common problems, traveling salesman problem. Then we will solve 3-4 medium/hard LeetCode problems together using these algorithms. Use your favorite programming language.

Minimal participant requirements: you have already successfully solved easy problems at LeetCode.
Max 10 people, please comment if you want to participate and not already in the group.

7th Cyberpunk Anime Night @ F0RTHSP4CE

Let's watch Blame!

Date: 18/02/2023
Starting at: 20:00 PM
Duration: 1:45
Sound: Japanese
Subtitles: English or Russian