Waiter, there’s AI in my soup
Oh hi again, glad you’re still here! Thanks for coming along as we build on the largest community for technology makers in Indiana - and likely the Midwest.
We are delighted to bring you another Hacks && Happenings.
Rally Recap
Rally was last week and quite a few of you all were there! It is always great to see so many tech folks in one spot!
AI was huge at Rally (just like about everywhere else). It seemed like three quarters of all talks were about AI. Some thoughtful and some bananas.
IndyHackers folks were involved in a couple things that showcased the builder perspective:
“Delivering AI” about actually delivering AI where we talked about actually working in the AI field.
“Ignite AI” meet up at Midwest House we were talked about implementations and development (along with a lot of security).
Things the community is reading
One of the fun parts of a community like ours is the eyes and ears we have that stumble across interesting bits of news to share with the rest of us. These are a few of the items that have caught our eye recently.
Diffusion Models are Real Time Game Engines: Somebody has trained a neural network to create playable DOOM levels in realtime. That’s at once whoa-inducing and simultaneously nostalgia-inducing. Off to find a Mac-capable port of DOOM and fire up a chainsaw. Game go brrrrrrrr
Bypassing airport security via SQL injection: The story of a good hack is always a good time, if only because it reminds us a) the only secure software is the unwritten kind, and b) it’s a wonder that anything ever works ever. Happy flying!
OpenAI is shockingly good at unminifying code: A bit clickbaity of a headline, but still an interesting use case for AI … and, unshockingly, something that AI should be especially good at, interpreting code and translating it into another syntax or language. Suddenly wondering if it could take a program in, say, Ruby, and swap it for, say, Rust … off to experiment!
Meetup. Of. The. Fortnight!
Indy AWS: Enhancing mental health care with clinically-validated AI/ML Technology on AWS
Explore how Generative AI technology on AWS was used to create real time dashboards for clinicians and improve the way mental health patients access and experience treatment.
We will look at the technology, design strategy, and research that helped Aiberry increase the availability, efficacy, and experience of mental health care diagnosis with their innovative usage of AWS’ AI/ML platform, serverless features, and SaaS strategies. We will work backwards, look at the mental health care problem, discuss how the solution was designed to address it, then dive into the technology that was clinically validated.
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
Zotec Partners, 1 Zotec Dr, Carmel, IN (Directions)
Other Upcoming Events
AI Engineering Katas - Sept 8th and Sept 21st
Agile Indy - Sept 11th 6pm
Downtown Code and Coffee - Sept 12th 7-9am
Broad Ripple Code and Coffee [Online] - Sept 18th 7:30 am
Free Code Camp Indy - Sept 25th 6pm
Indy .NET Consortium - Oct 2 6pm
Is there an event you would like to announce here? Let us know at newsletter@indyhackers.org and we’ll get it added to the calendar.
New on the Job Board
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Lead Data Scientist at Spot Inc. / Red Technologies
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One last thing
Hi. Our last edition had one reply, from Josh (Hi, Josh!).
In that reply, he mentioned working on image manipulation in SwiftUI, cropping and aspect ratios and fiddling with that sort of stuff without stretching the images out.
He also asked who was writing this email, so I figured I’d shed some light on that for those of you who have wandered all the way to the bottom.
I’m Chris Vannoy, a board member here at Indy Hackers. I’ve been a part of the community for a long time now; most of my wardrobe and glassware could be Indy Hackers gear at this point.
That said, this newsletter is a team effort. Our board - Andrew Poland especially! - contributes ideas, events, job board entries and the like. Once a fortnight, I fire up Google Docs and flesh things out.
In a long ago career, I worked in newspapers and I still have some writing muscle, so I can crank out these words pretty quickly.
Especially because so many others have already done the hard part of topic ideas.
And that’s where you come in!
Reply back with what you’re working on, what you’re excited about, or what you feel we should highlight.
Have a meetup we should hype up next time? Let us know!
Or reply back with tips on image manipulation in SwiftUI so we can all help Josh out - assuming he’s still fighting with that (he probably isn’t!).
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