Friday Hacks #233 📺

🗓 Date/Time: Friday, 27 January at 7:00pm
📍Venue: Level 2 Conference Hall @ i3 Building


🍕Food will be served!
Sign up for food at https://hckr.cc/fh2223s2-w3

If you are unable to join us in-person, you are welcome to join us online at https://hckr.cc/fh2223s2-w3-zoom


1) You’ve Learnt Programming. Now What?
You have finished your first programming module: CS1101S, CS1010S, or whatever. Now what?

In this talk, Herbert will show you real life examples of how you can use your knowledge and experience the magic of hacking

Speaker Profile:
Herbert graduated from NUS in 2020 and was part of the NUS Hackers coreteam. He is now working at Allium, a blockchain data startup. During his time at NUS, Herbert took up multiple internships at five different companies, including Twitter, Bloomberg and Basis AI.


See you there! 👋

Hacker Tools: Vim

🗓 Tuesday, 31 Jan, 6.30pm-8.30pm
📍 Seminar Room 13 ALC @ COM3-01-22

Sign up now at: https://hckr.cc/ht2223-w4-pub

Vim is a popular text editor, used by many to efficiently manipulate text. Come join us in this workshop to learn the basics of how to use it effectively.

Please ensure you have Vim installed before the workshop. (WSL2 / Linux / OSX install preferred, Native windows install might be a little fiddly)

Installation Guide: https://www.vim.org/download

This workshop is loosely 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/editors/.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Hackerschool: Introduction to OpenCV 👀

Hackerschool is back for the semester! We will be introducing the OpenCV library in our first workshop!

🗓 Wednesday, 1 Feb, 7pm to 9pm
📍 Seminar Room 13 @ COM3-01-22
🥐 Light refreshments will be provided!

Sign up now at: https://hckr.cc/hs2223-w4

All Hackerschool workshops will be recorded and uploaded onto our channel at https://hckr.cc/youtube.

This workshop will provide a basic understanding of the OpenCV library, covering basic image processing functions such as reading and displaying images, basic image manipulation, and object detection. It will be conducted in Python. Participants can expect to gain hands-on experience through the practices given during the workshop.

See you there 👋

Are you passionate about spreading the hacker culture 🛠 ? Do you want to be a part of the team that organises some of the most impactful hacking-related events in NUS and Singapore 🇸🇬?

Join the NUS Hackers coreteam! 💪 Apply here 😎!

Here are some FAQs below:

1. What are the kinds of candidates you are looking for?
Put simply, we're looking for someone who understands, and is passionate about the hacker culture. We don't require hacking experience; just someone who's looking to make hacking fun at NUS.

2. Do I need to have prior programming experience before joining?
Nope, we've had members whose first programming experience was in CS1010, and that's completely fine.

Friday Hacks #234 💾

🗓 Friday, 3 February at 7:00pm
📍 Seminar Room 777 @ i3 Building Level 1

🍕Sign up for food at https://hckr.cc/links

If you are unable to join us in-person, you are welcome to join us online at https://hckr.cc/fh2223s2-zoom

1) Idea to Revenue: How to make your first internet dollar

Dexter will share his journey building Homerow, a productivity macOS application that has generated $5,000 in revenue since August 2022. He hopes to encourage Computing students to start building side projects to learn and have fun 👀.

Dexter is an incoming NUS CS freshman. He is currently working an 8-5 job. In his free time, he likes to build apps and occasionally sells them.


2) How to build an award winning project

From building your own mobile carriers and posture correcting IoT systems, these projects never fail to impress all of us!

In this session, we are excited to invite T0X1C V4P0R and Slap Slap who were among the top 8 of Hack&Roll 2023.

See you there! 👋

Hi everyone! Do be reminded that we'll be starting soon at 6.30pm at Seminar Room 13 ALC @ COM3-01-22

Hackerschool: Introduction to OpenCV will begin at 7pm! Here’s a picture to help you find SR13 @ COM3

Hacker Tools: Shell and Scripting

🗓 Tuesday, 07 Feb, 6.30pm-8.30pm
📍 Seminar Room 13 @ SoC (COM3 01-22)

Sign up here!

Unleash the power of automation and boost your productivity with the shell! Imagine being able to effortlessly delete files with specific names and extensions, or having a script run automatically every night. Come learn to use the shell and write shell scripts to streamline file management and text processing.

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.

See you there 👋

Last call for Friday Hacks signs ups this week! 🤩

Sign up for food at https://hckr.cc/links

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Hey everyone, the long awaited Advent of Code draw will happen today at the very end of today's Friday Hacks (~8:10pm)!

We'll be giving out $10 Food Delivery vouchers to 15 lucky individuals (randomly drawn) who have achieved at least 20 stars before 25 December 2359hrs, are on our NUS Hackers AoC Private Leaderboard! 🎁

If you would like to watch the draw live, you can either come down for Friday Hacks or join the zoom session at https://hckr.cc/fh2223s2-zoom nearer to end of today's session. Winners will be contacted afterwards, regardless of whether or not they attended Friday Hacks or watched the live session.

Hackerschool: Applications of OpenCV 🤖

🗓 Thursday, 9 Feb, 7pm to 9pm
📍 Seminar Room 13 (COM3-01-22)
🥐 Light refreshments will be provided!

Sign up now at: https://hckr.cc/hs2223-w5
All Hackerschool workshops will be recorded and uploaded onto our channel at https://hckr.cc/youtube.

This workshop will use the OpenCV library to cover more applied topics such as depth perception, object detection, and constructing 3D meshes from images. It will be conducted in Python. Participants can expect to gain hands-on experience through the practices given during the workshop.

See you there 👋

We are closing NUS Hackers coreteam recruitment on 12 Feb. What are you waiting for? Apply here!

Friday Hacks #235 👾

🗓 Friday, 10 Feb, 7:00pm
📍 Seminar Room 777 & 787 (i3 Building Level 1)


🍕Food will be served!
Sign up for food at https://hckr.cc/links

If you are unable to join us in-person, you are welcome to join us online at https://hckr.cc/fhzoom


1) Hack&Roll 2023: More Hacks

This week, we are inviting more teams to present their hacks! We have the team Tybbit that made a mind-bending and annoying keyboard game, the team NUSCTEA that harnessed the power of GPT-3 API to convert text to any language of choice, and the team NativeSay that created a translation app that helps users understand the context for translations. Coolest part? One of the teams is planning to launch their project for the public!

Speaker Profile
NativeSay and Tybbit were among the top 8 of Hack&Roll 2023, while NUSCTEA won Best Beginner Hack.

See you there! 👋

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Basic Image analysis for ML
Date: Saturday, 11 Feb
Venue: LT28 and on Zoom
NUS SDS Data Preprocessing Workshop

Looking to try your hand at a Computer Vision project?

In this workshop, the NUS SDS Workshops team will be performing exploratory data analysis and preprocess image datasets in preparation for an end-to-end CV project. Basic knowledge in OpenCV and various feature engineering techniques will be taught to participants (Knowledge in Python is required).

Scan the QR code or click on the link below to sign up now!
https://nus.campuslabs.com/engage/submitter/form/start/576836

Hackerschool: Exploring ChatGPT 🧠

🗓 Wednesday, 15 Feb, 7pm to 9pm
📍 Seminar Room 13 (COM3-01-22)
🥐 Light refreshments will be provided!

Sign up now at: https://hckr.cc/hs2223-w6

All Hackerschool workshops will be recorded and uploaded onto our channel at https://hckr.cc/youtube.

Come discover the world of ChatGPT at our workshop 'Exploring ChatGPT'. You don't need a background in Computing to attend! Our Hackers will guide you through the basics of this cutting-edge language model, and show you how it's transforming the field of AI. With interactive activities and real-life examples, you'll get a taste of ChatGPT's potential and learn about its strengths and limitations. Whether you're a student, a curious learner, or just want to explore new technology, this workshop is for you!

See you there 👋

We are happy to announce that the recruitment process has officially ended. Our team will be carefully reviewing all the submissions and will reach out to candidates in the next few days.

We would like to extend our gratitude to everyone who participated in the recruitment process. Thank you for the time and effort you've put into your applications!

Friday Hacks #236 💿

🗓 Friday, 17 Feb, 7:00pm
📍 Seminar Room 777 (i3 Building Level 1)


🍕Food will be served!
Sign up for food here

If you are unable to join us in-person, you are welcome to join us online here


1) Fuzzing Database Engines with SQLancer
SQLancer can automatically find logic bugs in database systems, by generating databases and queries, whose results are then checked for discrepancies. SQLancer has found hundreds of bugs in widely-used database engines like MySQL. Prof. Rigger, who currently leads the NUS TEST Lab, will cover SQLancer’s testing techniques and code base.


2) Creating Sustainable, Sticker-Sized Wireless Computers
Prof. Varshney has developed low-power wireless transmitters and receivers to solve the issue of battery-replacement. They enable IoT devices with novel form factors, some of which don't even need batteries! Prof. Varshney will cover his journey and project STICORS, which builds sticker-form-factor, sustainable wireless computers.


See you there! 👋

Hackerschool: Exploring ChatGPT will be starting shortly at 7pm, SR13 (COM3-01-22)!

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Model Training and Tuning Workshop
🕐Date: Saturday, 18 Feb
🙋Venue: Zoom

Click the link below:
https://nus.campuslabs.com/engage/submitter/form/start/578159

Are you ready to dive into the world of deep learning? The SDS Model Tuning Workshop is just for you! This hands-on training session will guide you through the process of fine-tuning pre-trained Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for image classification tasks. You'll learn about transfer learning, including how to modify pre-trained network architecture and use data augmentation to boost performance. This is a fantastic opportunity to expand your knowledge and skills, so do sign up now!