Event Details ★ Hot March 21st–22nd · 12:30 PM to 12:30 PM · Floyd Hall D-202 & D-204 24 hours of coding, in partnership with Dev Club, WICYS and WRAVEN. Register » Poster What's Happening Expert Talks Learn from experts on a variety of topics across computer science and development. Free Food and Drinks Catering, snacks, and refreshments throughout the entire 24-hour event. TTRPG One Shot Take a break with tabletop RPG gaming sessions between coding sprints.
Bylaws of Pawprint Prototyping Revision 4.0 Preamble As members of the hacking community, we the representatives of Totally Legit Agency, dba Pawprint Prototyping (herein also written as simply the Hackerspace), in the desire to promote our mission and to better govern ourselves, hereby lay down the following ground rules for executing the Business of our organization: 1. Mission, Purpose and Location Pawprint Prototyping’s Mission is to: Establish and maintain a community space wherein the Hackerspace’s Members may gather, work on projects, collaborate, and share knowledge; Foster a network for innovative thinking, education, and creative endeavors in our local community and the hacker community at large. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, Pawprint Prototyping is organized exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, including but not limited to: Through talks, classes, workshops, collaborative projects, and other activities, to encourage research, knowledge exchange, learning, and mentoring in a safe, clean space. Provide educational spaces for teaching practical skills and theory of technology, science, and art. Provide work space, storage, and other resources for projects related to art, science, and technology that will benefit the individual members’ personal growth in their fields of interest, encouraging the individual members to share their projects and knowledge for the betterment of society through art, science and technology. To create, learn, and teach, individually and as a group, inviting members of the community in the Santa Clara area and the world. To develop, support the development of, and provide resources for the development of free and open source software and hardware for the benefit of society. Collaboration across disciplines for the benefit of cultural, charitable, and scientific causes. To foster, by all legal means, the common purposes of its participants. To conduct or engage in all lawful activities in furtherance of the stated purposes or those incidental to them. To educate the public on subjects useful to the individual and beneficial to the community regarding scientific, technical, engineering and artistic skills through individual projects and social collaboration. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, Pawprint Prototyping shall not, except to an insubstantial degree, engage in any activities or exercise any powers that are in themselves not in furtherance of one or more exempt purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. Pawprint Prototyping shall continuously maintain in the State of California a registered office and a registered agent whose business office, is identical with such registered office. The registered office shall be the physical location of the Hackerspace. In the event that Pawprint Prototyping does not have a physical location, the registered office shall be determined by the Board of Directors. Pawprint Prototyping is an open, collaborative community of creators and practitioners working toward positive social change. Pawprint Prototyping chooses to: Value open, public discourses over closed, proprietary processes. Value access and transparency over exclusivity. Value solving real problems over hypotheticals, while respecting visions of the future. Value community and collaboration over isolation and competition. Value human judgment over automation and efficiency. Value do-ocracy over bureaucracy. Value safe space over ideology. 2. Users and Members The Hackerspace shall comprise of the following types of persons (herein also referred to as Users) who may utilize its physical facilities (herein also referred to as the Space):
He/him | CTO @ pawprintprototyping, voider of warranties, and trustee for Pawprint’s amateur radio club.
Our Self-Hosted Matrix Server Computer Club hosts our own Matrix chat server in Floyd Hall, WMU’s engineering building. We use Element as our client for secure, decentralized communication. What That Gets You End-to-End Encryption Your messages are secure and private by default. Decentralized Not controlled by any single company or entity. Cross-Platform Available on desktop, mobile, and web. Free and Open Source No cost, no ads, just community.
Warning: this process is pretty technical, it requires familiarity with OpenPGP and the command-line. It assumes you have the program gpg installed. Import Pawprint’s PGP key On the terminal, import Pawprint’s public OpenPGP key from a keyserver: gpg –recv-key 12463A8A9661FBB98C15C5F2FB8E49432F2EE9CC gpg –fingerprint 12463A8A9661FBB98C15C5F2FB8E49432F2EE9CC The first line will import the key into your keyring, but there is no guarentee that you actually imported the right key. The --fingerprint command allows you to see the fingerprint of the key and actually confirm you imported the correct key. You should see output that contains this line:
Welcome to North Shore Hackers! We have deep roots in the Hawaii hackspace scene. We believe in ethical hacking, as well as hacking on both hardware and software projects. If this resonates with you, please feel free to contact us or attend. Our hackspace is located on the North Shore of Oahu, in the state of Hawaii. Next meeting is on (b64): QXByaWwgMiwgMjAyMywgMTUwMC0xODAwIEhTVAo= Meeting location (b64):
Why Join the Computer Club? With our own office and all the resources in it, our greatest resource still remains our people. After almost 50 years at WMU, we’ve had hundreds of great members now off doing remarkable things at places like Google, Apple, LinkedIn, IBM, TI, Socket, and the DoD. If you’re even a little interested in security, programming, hardware, electronics, or you’re just a bit geeky, then chances are you’ll click with us.
Break and make hardware. LINUX OR BUST. Billionaires suck.
The Elixir AI and ML Ecosystem This is the systems and ML-learning side of the NSHKR portfolio. The current mechanistic-interpretability research programs are presented first on the home page; the material below documents the broader Elixir/BEAM ecosystem, including experimentation, reliability, data, orchestration, and developer tooling. Some sections describe the historical seven-tier portfolio model and are retained as architectural context rather than a claim that every component has the same maturity. The 7-Tiered Architectural Model +------------------------------------------+ | TIER 1: PUBLIC INTERFACE | | nsai_sites | | (Cloudflare Workers, Edge Delivery) | +--------------------+---------------------+ | v +------------------------------------------+ | TIER 2: GATEWAY & ORCHESTRATION | | nsai_gateway | nsai_registry | | (Auth, Rate Limit, Discovery, Health) | +--------------------+---------------------+ | +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+ | | | v v v +------------------------+ +------------------------+ +------------------------+ | TIER 3: PROCESSING | | TIER 3: PROCESSING | | TIER 3: PROCESSING | | KITCHEN | | FORGE | | CNS | | crucible_kitchen | | forge / anvil | | Dialectical AI | | tinkex_cookbook | | ingot / labeling_ir | | cns / cns_crucible | +------------------------+ +------------------------+ +------------------------+ | | | +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+ | v +------------------------------------------+ | TIER 4: CORE FRAMEWORK | | crucible_framework | crucible_ir | | crucible_bench | | (Pipeline Orchestration, IR, Statistics) | +--------------------+---------------------+ | v +------------------------------------------+ | TIER 5: MLOPS ASSEMBLY | | crucible_train | crucible_model_registry| | crucible_deployment | crucible_feedback | | (Train, Version, Deploy, Feedback) | +--------------------+---------------------+ | v +------------------------------------------+ | TIER 6: RELIABILITY & SAFETY | | LlmGuard | crucible_ensemble | | crucible_hedging | ExFairness | | crucible_xai | crucible_adversary | +--------------------+---------------------+ | v +------------------------------------------+ | TIER 7: FOUNDATIONAL UTILITIES | | tiktoken_ex | embed_ex | chz_ex | | hf_hub_ex | hf_datasets_ex | nx_penalties| +------------------------------------------+ Organizing Metaphors Complex systems require organizing metaphors that make abstract relationships concrete. The NSAI ecosystem uses two primary metaphor families.