From talexb at gmail.com Mon Sep 16 08:39:59 2024 From: talexb at gmail.com (Alex Beamish) Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:39:59 -0400 Subject: [tpm] Social meeting at C'Est What? in ten days time Message-ID: Hi All, This is a followup to my announcement on meetup.com about this month's event: https://www.meetup.com/toronto-perl-mongers/events/qbvmltygcmbjc/ Both Olaf and I have recently seen failures on this website, where instead of a full web page, we've just seen {} as if part of the ensh*ttification process has started to cheap out on the number of containers running to support the website. Ugh. Anyway -- see you Thursday, September 26 at 7pm, where we'll meet up, drink beer, and figure out what we're doing next. Cheers, Alex -- Alex Beamish Incoming Convention Chair / Ontario District / https://ontariosings.com/ Software Developer / https://ca.linkedin.com/in/alex-beamish-5111ba3 Speaker Wrangler / Toronto Perlmongers / http://to.pm.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arocker at Vex.Net Sat Sep 28 07:30:07 2024 From: arocker at Vex.Net (arocker at Vex.Net) Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:30:07 -0400 Subject: [tpm] The book I mentioned on Thursday Message-ID: <3a2c4907d3376fdcd49f6eb09a881e8e.squirrel@webmail.vybenetworks.com> https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262691918/the-sciences-of-the-artificial/ A serious guide to structuring complex systems (like the Internet or a robot tank) from layers of simple ones Once you've read it, you will recognize the ubiquity of the idea. It is surprisingly easy to read, and remarkably relevant to current discussions about AI.