Homeschool Days at The Tech InteractiveHomeschool Days are back at The Tech Interactive!What are Homeschool Days? Our special Wednesday programs are crafted for homeschooling families who love to tinker, test, and explore at their own pace. Learners will enjoy a flexible schedule of hands-on activities, guided labs, and drop-in STEAM demonstrations.Each Homeschool Day includes:- Full access ...
Ubiquitous and cryptic, parasites are often ignored, yet can have surprising and devastating effects on their hosts population. My primary research goals are to find ecological organizing principles of how parasites and disease will respond to the changing environment. Using sunflower sea stars (Pycnopodia helianthoides) and sea star wasting disease ...
Join Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Policy Fellow Riana Pfefferkorn for a conversation about the potential future(s) of AI and humanity with Adam Becker, author of More Everything Forever, and Jon Evans, author of Exadelic and the Gradient Ascendant newsletter. Who are the individuals and communities predicting AI doom, AI boom, or ...
Debates about artificial intelligence (AI) tend to revolve around whether large models are intelligent, autonomous agents. Some AI researchers and commentators speculate that we are on the cusp of creating agents with artificial general intelligence (AGI), a prospect anticipated with both elation and anxiety. There have also been extensive conversations ...
China’s immense northwest holds the key to the country’s internal geopolitical and socioeconomic restructuring and global soft power today. In addition to hosting mega investments in energy, mining, infrastructure, and urban development, this resource-rich and ethnically diverse, yet under-studied, territory of 3.7 million square kilometres is leading China’s rising developmental ...
In README, historian Patrick McCray argues that in order for computers to become ubiquitous, people first had to become interested in them, learn about them, and take the machines seriously. A powerful catalyst for this transformation was, ironically, one of the oldest information technologies we have: books. The author uses a ...
Amy Franceschini (Futurefarmers) on "Excursions through Domains of Familiarity and Surprise" Michael Frank (Stanford/) on "Bridging the Data Gap between Babies and Large Language Models" Luciano Chessa (Composer) on "Cena Oltranzista nel Castelletto al Lago - A Career Retrospective" Editor's Note: Start time has changed to 5:30 PM from 7:00 ...
On tap this month we have a talk from U of A graduate students Devin Hoover, who will tell us what we know about Titan, and Brock Parker, here to give us a brief history of detecting light!Click here to watch
Where: Cost: Free
Naturalist Training - Winter Wonders: Mushrooms, Lichens, and Slime Molds! - LivestreamAre you curious about fungi, lichens, and slime molds? This webinar is for you, whether you are a beginner or experienced enthusiast!Join BioBlitz Club and Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful for this highly informative webinar covering these unique, hard-to-classify, important pieces of nature.During the webinar, Alison Pollack, JJ Johnson, and Damon ...
Join SCVBA for an evening with Philip Higgins, co-founder of Talon Ecological and one of the foremost experts on Burrowing Owls in Santa Clara County. We'll learn about the ongoing work happening to protect these birds in our county, like habitat restoration, artificial burrows, and a captive breeding program, and ...
Where: CupertinoCost: Free
Everyday Rewards and the Science of Addiction - SOLD OUTWhat if addiction isn’t just about substances - but about the rewards that compete with them?Join Dr. Keanan Joyner, UC Berkeley Assistant Professor of Psychology and director of the C.R.E.A.M. Lab, for a fresh look at how addiction develops and persists.While most addiction research focuses on what drugs do to ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25
Taming Tech Debt for Platform ReliabilitySite Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Google is a job function, mindset, and set of engineering practices focused on ensuring the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of production systems. The term is created in the early 2000s. This talk aims to reframe the conversation around technical debt. Rather than viewing it ...
