[YLUG] Social Tue 18th, Terrier

[Philip Morrell]

Just a quick reminder about the social on Tue. Unfortunately I can't
make it this week.
--
Philip Morrell




On 5 October 2011 13:11, Philip Morrell <lists at emorrp1.name> wrote:
> Hi all, the next social will be:
>
> Tuesday 18th October
> 19:00-21:00
>
> Yorkshire Terrier
> YO1 8AS
>
> There are also several of us intending to go to York Geek Club
> tomorrow night, 8pm at The Habit, Goodramgate. I hope to see you
> there. Installfest will be on the 19th/20th November.
>
> tl;dr: Last night was very informative, with six geeks discussing a
> wide range of fun stuff.
>
> Stanford University are running three new online CS courses[1]
> starting Monday, finishing Christmas: Databases (popular at YLUG),
> Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. This seems to be along
> the same lines as OpenCourseWare and follows on from their Stanford
> Engineering Everywhere.
>
> Contactless payments[2] on debit/credit cards were generally agreed to
> be A Good Thing(TM), but people didn't care so much for it on their
> phone. Contactless is designed for high volume, low value (<£15), fast
> payments like bus tickets and fast food (think Oyster card). Most new
> cards are coming with contactless.
>
> Good luck to Haegin on hearing back about his phone interview for
> Google. He mentioned "codility" as one of the things he used to brush
> up for the interview.
>
> One of the highlights of the night was Charlie showing off a
> collection of his gadgets: $300 "trim slice" (pocket-sized desktop);
> kindle DS for pdfs; chromebook with "cloud9" for coding; £100 "smart
> pen" for notation. Coding licenses were discussed, with MIT preferred
> over BSD for extra-free code due to readability. If bug-fix
> contributions preferred, then the GPL (LGPL for library linking).
>
> Charlie also told us of how he's managed to digitise a hoard of
> information using a "snapscan" auto-fed scanner for documents, the
> vortexbox distro for media ripping (in process) with MusicBrainz for
> metadata. We imagined using a 3D printer to produce the little bits
> and bobs for those of us who keep them "just in case" they're useful.
> --
> Philip Morrell
>
> [1] http://db-class.org http://ml-class.org http://ai-class.org
> [2] http://www.contactless.info
> http://www.visa.co.uk/en/products/contactless.aspx
> http://www.paypass.com/
>