Here is a list of event, includes speaker session and other intermediate slots (e.g. lunch):
From ChatGPT, Llama, Gemma to Jetson, Amanda Lam from Women Techmakers Hong Kong will discuss the current options of integrating LLM into Home Assistant, what they can / will do for you, their pros and cons, and the future development in this area. If you want your smart home to become even smarter, don't miss this sequel to the 2 previous HKOSCon sessions on Home Assistant!
Being a developer in JavaScript has never been easy. We the javascript coder always welcome new solutions to old problems (and to create new problems!). Today when we start a new project, we have several runtimes to choose from, Bun, Deno and Node.js. Alex will share his real project experience, the benchmark and the pros and cons for these three runtimes.
An introduction to Platform Engineering, and related tools. Speaker will share some of its experience in delivering Ops as Platform in an engineering team.
hkbus.app is a web application utilizes the public transport ETA data from data.gov.hk. The proposal will covers the software stack for achieving extremely low cost to support several thousands and even more users. Then, I will present the outcome and status of marketing, mainly via SEO and social media. In the third part, I will jump into the discussion on contribution by other users and the community status in Telegram, currently with ~1300 users and 7 admins.
There are many different services in Azure, some of them you need to care for scale out.
Azure Adventure is an open source HTML5 RPG game that builds on top of the latest version of Azure Automatic Grading Engine. Students need to talk to non-player character (NPC) in the game, then NPC will give some Azure tasks to students. If students can complete those tasks within time limit, then students can get some coins in the game.
A talk that covers all you need to know about CTF.
Facebook、Instagram、Twitter等社群媒體一台獨大。有人詬病它們監督不力，讓虛假資訊和極端思想滿天飛，亦有人不滿它們審查言論和無故封鎖帳號。有人因此轉投MeWe等另類中心化平台，有些人則希望結束一台專政，建設去中心化平台。
但是去中心化只是手段，更好的社群才是目的。去中心化平台該如何處理不良內容，克服內容審核的不可能三角？去中心化社群媒體，很多人都聽過Mastodon，那你有聽過近期流行的Bluesky Social 嗎？Mastodon有什麼不好要去開發新的網絡協定？社群媒體演算法對用戶是壞東西？
從Mastodon到Bluesky Social，講者會分享去中心化社群媒體面對的內容審核難題，從技術角度深入解構兩個系統架構上的取捨。可是到最後，會發現最難的從來不是技術問題，還是人的問題。
AWS AI Assistant is a serverless applications and integrates most of the AWS AI/ML services and Open AI.
The most popular tech news in 2023 is the raise of generative AI with Large language models. With those powerful pre-built model or AI API, we can build a very powerful virtual assistant with the combination and integration of all AWS AI/ML services with OpenAI API or Hugging Face pre-trained model. For my use case, I hope my students learn and use AI but I do want to have certain control and monitoring. So, we want to make it fun and powerful for my students.
There are many different kinds of programming paradigm such as high-level coding and low-level coding. Verilog is another kind of paradigm, this talk will bring an introduction how coding in Verilog looks like and help audiences to jump start on it.
(廣東話) Programming 有幾種係人都feel到唔同嘅大，例如high level programming就同low level programming好唔同。而Verilog又係另一種好唔同嘅編程範式，希望係呢個talk為大家介紹同埋幫大家極速起手。
(書面語) Programming有兩大範式 : 高級語言(python/java)和底級語言(assembly), 而verilog是有別於以上兩大類的另一編程範式, 希望係此演講為大家介紹和令大家起步編寫verilog。