Channel Title: Code & Supply Channel Description: Pittsburgh's community for passionate coders. Videos for people interested in computer programming. We build software with Ruby, Python, Elixir, Clojure, Rust, JavaScript, Swift, and more. <video> Algorithmically Generated Visual Designs Description: Michael Wehar, Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Swarthmore College, will present. "This past summer, I worked with two undergraduate students (Alyssa Zhang and Maya Newman-Toker) and one software engineer (John Mancini) on a research project that investigates computer-generated artwork. During this investigation, we designed and implemented nine algorithms that generate visual designs. Our algorithms, coded in JavaScript, are built from procedural processes that draw lines and basic shapes onto a digital canvas. These procedural processes were inspired by mathematical concepts, natural phenomena, and artistic trends, but contain many parameters to allow for image variation. We used our algorithms to build a dataset of over 1,000 algorithmically generated artworks, which we recruited reviewers to compare and rate. We plan to analyze the reviewers' ratings to find associations between different parameterizations of our algorithms and the response of reviewers to the resulting images." Link to web app for reviewing images: http://michaelwehar.com/artwork/ Link to repo on GitHub: https://github.com/Algorithmically-Generated-Artwork/Drawing-Program https://www.meetup.com/pittsburgh-code-supply/events/288518431/ </video> <video> Panel discussion: Motivate, monitor, and manage from afar (with Write the Docs Pgh) Description: Powered by Restream https://restream.io Join experienced managers - Jean Siegel (Latitude AI), Jon Chu (Google), Stephen Gross (MongoDB), and Dave Paola (The Agency of Learning) - for a panel discussion. We'll cover tips and challenges for managing high-performance teams, remotely. The evening will include networking, a panel discussion, and Q&A. We welcome current managers, those interested in exploring management, and others interested in building influence within their remote or hybrid organization. https://www.meetup.com/pittsburgh-code-supply/events/297779405/ </video> <video> How to protect an API with OAuth Description: OAuth is a well-known standard for delegating authentication and authorization decisions to a central identity provider. Doing so allows your application to ignore the authentication and authorization process and allows the identity provider to focus on what it does best, finding out if a user is who they say they are and figuring out the authorization level that user has. As a developer writing an API, you have a token when a grant completes. But what happens then? This talk will discuss client and server-side code and logic needed when calling an API after you have an access token. This will include how to store a token in the API client, refresh a token using the refresh grant, and what your API code should examine when presented with a token. Presented by Dan Moore, Head of Developer Relations at FusionAuth. </video> <video> Take the hint — making better use of Python type hints Description: A dive into Python type hints, what they are, and why everyone expects you to use them. Presented by Steven F. Lott for Code & Supply More information on this event https://www.meetup.com/pittsburgh-code-supply/events/296001081/ Support C&S and help us keep doing cool stuff in the Pittsburgh tech scene https://codeandsupply.co/join https://patreon.com/codeandsupply </video> <video> Build Night Interviews, November 2023 - Why do you come to Build Night? Description: Join us for Build Night, generally held on the last Monday of the month except May and December. We also host them every Monday in October in celebration of Hacktoberfest. Recorded at Code & Supply in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in November 2023. Learn more at http://www.codeandsupply.co and see our upcoming events at https://codeandsupply.co/x/meetup. </video> <video> Data Engineering: The Code & Supply Compensation Survey Report Description: Code & Supply invested in building a data analysis and document authorship pipeline to produce its latest Compensation Survey Report. Building on its experience in previous iterations, C&S used Python, Jupyter notebooks, pandas, Polars, Plotly, pandoc, and many other tools to analyze responses from more than 800 people and produce a more than 100 page report. In this presentation, Colin Dean will discuss the survey and analysis effort, which can serve as an example of how to get started doing data science, building consistent data visualizations, and collaborating on a large scientific paper. Presented by Colin Dean & Alex Zharichenko https://www.meetup.com/pittsburgh-code-supply/events/298399851/ </video> <video> Time Series Forecasting in R with Conor Tompkins Description: This talk uses Pittsburgh pothole data to introduce time series forecasting. Forecasting is a commonly used supply chain process to predict customer demand. The talk is based on https://ctompkins.netlify.app/post/forecasting-pittsburgh-potholes-with-fable. (This is the whole talk, although the audio is slightly off because of a technical glitch we didn't catch. This is an edit of the version broadcast to Twitch, which didn't error and cut off the first 10 minutes like YouTube did.) </video> <video> WordPress Hooks In Action Description: WordPress makes things easy, but it’s a well-oiled racing machine beneath the surface. Your simple updates and requests trigger a cascade of useful functions that you can customize with ease! Benji Kostenbader will show you how to hack in without an account, save yourself from forgetful clients, and even trigger superpowers on your favorite everyday plugins. Regretably, the stream cut off due to a connectivity issue and Benji finished up approximately a minute later. Slides, in the form of a WordPress site: https://github.com/benjithaimmortal/get_hooked https://www.meetup.com/pittsburgh-code-supply/events/287850676/ </video> <video> 🛶 🛶 #code Description: </video> <video> Time Series Forecasting in R with Conor Tompkins Description: Turn your videos into live streams with Restream https://restre.am/ANIm This talk will use Pittsburgh pothole data to introduce time series forecasting. Forecasting is a commonly used supply chain process to predict customer demand. The talk is based on https://ctompkins.netlify.app/post/forecasting-pittsburgh-potholes-with-fable. </video> <video> Function Calling in OpenAI's GPT LLMs using Spring AI Description: Pankaj Tandon presenting. "Function Calling" feature available in some LLMs allows us to combine personal info of the user with the power of Generative AI without sacrificing security. The typical flow of an LLM that supports Function Calling will be discussed and then, how Spring AI orchestrates this flow will be highlighted. Next we will discuss how we can combine Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Function Calling to provide a more efficient flow. Lastly, we will discuss some use-cases in the Financial domain along with some caveats based on the current state of the technology. </video> <video> Don't Stop Repeating Yourself, with Joel Holmes Description: Software engineers call it the DRY principle: Don't Repeat Yourself. If you find yourself writing a similar function again, you may abstract it. Or, if you are trying to capture similar business objects, they may fit into an existing data structure or process. As easy as this may seem, finding this abstraction can be difficult, and not all data fits comfortably into the same structure. How does this principle work? Will it always be applicable? Can it adapt to a dynamic product? What are the challenges you will face? Who can teach you the techniques? https://www.meetup.com/pittsburgh-code-supply/events/296721234/ </video> <video> Life aboard Red Ranger — being a technomad …living on a sailboat Description: Learning about Steven F. Lott's boat and how he stays productive as a tech worker. What’s it like being a nomad? Do you have gorgeous pictures of boats and sunsets over the ocean? Steven F. Lott has been turning coffee into software since the days when computers were large, expensive, and rare. Working for decades in high tech has given him exposure to a lot of ideas and techniques, some bad, but most are useful and helpful to others. Steven has been working with Python since the ‘90s, building a variety of tools and applications. He’s written a number of books, and sometimes manages to attend conferences. Steven is currently a technomad who lives in various places on the east coast of the US. He tries to live by the words “Don’t come home until you have a story.” You can find him online at @slott56@fosstodon.org. https://www.meetup.com/pittsburgh-code-supply/events/296001095/ </video> <video> Perfect Google Lighthouse scores are possible, and your company should have one Description: Powered by Restream https://restream.io Google's Lighthouse tool has long been held as a distant objective and an unachievable metric. Benjamin Kostenbader will show how Dot Foundry achieved a perfect Google Lighthouse website quality score and why you should, too. He'll explain what it is, how to use it, discuss its importance, strengths, and limitations, and then highlight a few areas that were crucial for reaching 100. https://www.meetup.com/pittsburgh-code-supply/events/298955358/ </video> <video> The emerging AI regulatory landscape: What tech practitioners need to know Description: Steven Wood presenting. Current advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have created much excitement and concern with experts across industry, academia, and government regarding both future and present capabilities of and potential existential threats posed by AI. AI experts, politicians, policymakers, and others have called for regulation and controls on the development and proliferation of AI, some going so far as to suggest that AI represents an extinction level threat to humanity. Currently, various regulatory regimes relating to the development and standardization of AI technologies exist and need to be considered. The specific laws depend in part on geographic location, as jurisdictions such as the European Union (EU) already have their own legislation (EU AI Act) and more than 30 US States have started regulating AI, enacting over 50 state-level laws in the absence of broad federal legislation. Further, international efforts between the EU and US seek to provide support and leadership in international standardization efforts by collaborating on development of technical AI standards, some currently underway before the International Organization for Standardization. These standards impact the design, operation, measurement, evaluation, and risk management of trustworthy AI. In January 2023 the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy published its Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights and the National Institute of Standards and Technology released an AI Risk Management Framework. On October 30, 2023, building on earlier work, including an EO directing agencies to combat algorithmic discrimination and obtaining voluntary commitments from major US companies (such as Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI) to engage in safe, secure, and trustworthy AI development, US President Joe Biden issued an executive order (EO) on the "Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of AI". In early February 2024, the White House announced that the tasked executive agencies had completed all 90-day actions mandated by this order. Additional regulatory landscape considerations important to AI include export controls under International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR), as well as patentability considerations before the US Patent & Trademark Office. Further critical developments at the intersection with Intellectual Property include the various lawsuits alleging copyright infringement in the training of Large Language Models like Chat-GPT, etc. With so much action around AI technologies development and regulation it can be challenging to closely track and understand the implications of everything as it continues to evolve so dynamically. Nevertheless, this academic review will endeavor to provide an accurate snapshot of the current legal regimes and regulatory landscapes impacting AI and its use as a practical guide for AI developers and entrepreneurs. </video>

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