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A talk on helping new beekeepers start up in urban environments. The talk will include location selection, equipment choice, purchasing bees, an introduction to local and national associations, the legality of keeping bees, the difference between urban and rural beekeeping, the costs associated with the hobby and a walkthrough of the first year and what to expect. about this event: https://c3voc.d...

Hear vicious venomous molluscs and baroque bifurcation diagrams! You could already buy knitted scarves of elementary cellular automata and simulated sea shells, now you can listen to what passes for tunes! Fabienne Serriere's generative knitting patterns drew attention to Hans Meinhardt's book "The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells", the code that came with it is being slowly resurrected. Abuse of...

As a member of the team who brought WaveNet into production, I would like to give an insight into the technical challenges and the technology which powers Google's voice, and how this type of algorithms could be used to solve other interesting problems. WaveNet is a machine learning algorithm developed at (Google) DeepMind which was the first to obtain human-like quality of voice directly modeling...

Poetoid Lyricam is a Raspberry Pi, camera, thermal printer and batteries housed in the body of a 1970s Polaroid camera. The pictures it takes are fed to a neural net which generates captions, these are then mangled and reformatted to resemble a poem, which emerges from the printer on the back. This talk will cover how it works and why it exists. With a look at my past and present experiences with...

The Internet, mobile telephony and mobile have radically changed the way people behave in emergencies and disasters across the world. In particular they have given people new tools and opportunities to find and help each other. From the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team building maps on the fly in the developing world, through mobile charging stations for refugees to self organised responses to natu...

Immediately after the screening of Hackers, we are honoured to be joined by Hackers director Iain Softley in conversation with Jake Davis (AKA Topiary), sharing stories and answering your questions. about this event: https://c3voc.de

How does social media mess with our relationship to reality? What the hell happened to the truth? Can you manufacture authenticity? Should I be scared of the bots? Can we believe our eyes any more? Will Twitter destroy the world? Artist Eric Drass (aka shardcore) may or may not answer these questions. about this event: https://c3voc.de

Throughout history, music has often been employed as a morale boosting device. From wartime rallying songs to football terraces to "If you're happy and you know it", we sing to encourage the troops; to celebrate epic victories; to cheer on our favourite team. Whose battles are more epic, whose victories more heroically won than global corporations with enough spare marketing budget to commission t...

Machine learning is now ubiquitous in modern society. It's often used to solve problems such as spam email detection, natural language translation, to find images matching certain search criteria, or to make music recommendations. This talk will turn the problem around and examine the extent to which neural networks can emulate human creativity. We'll start by thinking about what it means for an a...

Podcasting has been a quiet revolution. Most people didn't get it at first and some are still surprised it's not going away. But podcasting has not only survived three global hype cycles it's also one of the most resilient and unique media forms on the Internet. So far, Podcasting has successfully resisted being sucked up by a single YouTube-style platform that looks helpful in the beginning but w...

Tagline: "I almost wish there were a conspiracy, but I'm afraid it's much worse than that." It is a widely, but vaguely, appreciated fact that banks and banking are powerful and important aspects of modern history, which affect almost all aspects of politics and society. Most thoughtful people, reflecting on the present trajectory of history, get the uncomfortable feeling that we are all being dri...

As with many young people interested in computing, I could never work out how a computer could turn 1's and 0's flowing through logic gates into what you see before you. You learn that this magic box can be programmed to do all sorts of amazing things, but are never really given the details as to how it does it. I wanted to know more, and after some research I started making logic gates with the o...

Sequel for the EMF’16 talk on hacking modern automotive tech into a 1974 Ford Escort Mk1. An updated journey on; connecting the car to the cloud using AWS for GPS tracking and remote engine start, 3D printing prototype engine parts and reverse engineering CAN signals to test a home-brew digital cluster built using a Raspberry Pi running a custom Linux image. about this event: https://c3voc.de

Geiger counters are interesting and surprisingly useful devices, and you can build one for less than the price of a video game. They can monitor background radiation levels, check household items such as smoke alarms and gas mantles, and provide information about medical treatments. I designed and built my own unit having been diagnosed with cancer in 2017, and it has provided some fascinating ins...

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Failure is a great teacher, but we do not often talk openly about failure in a public setting. As a scientist (and failure enthusiast), I am trying to encourage my community to talk more about failure, which is difficult since the path to success is to publish about successes and to hide failures. Let's do more to talk about failure as a Maker community. Let's be honest about the dead-ends and dum...

Matrix.org is an ambitious open source project which defines a new protocol for open, decentralised, encrypted communication: adding a common denominator to the internet for securely publishing and subscribing to data (especially IM and VoIP) in realtime; liberating communication from being trapped in silos like WhatsApp, Slack, Discord and similar. We maintain the specification for Matrix as well...

A almost entirely factually accurate comedy set about the difficulties of getting people to experiment on when you're studying pain and fear, covering how utterly essential volunteers/willing subjects are to all human science and the perils and pitfalls of studying cognition in small children and babies, (and how they’re much smarter than we think). about this event: https://c3voc.de

We were legally banned from using encryption on our computers, and were required to email the police every time we purchased a new computer, due to a “Serious Crime Prevention Order” lasting 5 years, which expired recently. Additionally, we had to email the police our exact whereabouts, and initially they tried to put in a condition that we had to send them a letter every time we used "the cloud"....

"It's not natural!" This phrase is often used to try and justify bigotry and prejudice, especially against people who are LGBTQIA+, polyamorous, or women who don't fit traditional gender roles. But is it true? What do we mean by "natural"? As a bisexual, polyamorous biologist and science presenter, Antonia Forster is keen to set the record straight (no pun intended). What behaviours do we see in n...

Furby is a cute little guy, but what exactly is going on beneath that lurid neon fluff? In this talk, we'll take you on a deep dive into IoT reverse engineering, walking you through the story of our work on the Furby Connect, and offering up a set of broadly-applicable reversing tips and approaches that you can try out against your favourite toy or embedded device. We'll also demonstrate live how...

A critically hopeful perspective on the magical technology of the 21st Century, Dr. Lydia Kostopoulos takes the listeners on a journey of how technology is transforming the human experience all the way from birth to death. Her talk unpacks the potential benefits and consequences of DNA Editing, Artificially Intelligent Companions, Brain Computer Interface, 3D Printing of Body Parts, and Whole Brai...

The show that works like magic to spell bind the audience, make them gasp, gape, wonder and laugh. Featuring all demonstrations, strange and wonderful noises, levitating objects, flash bang and big sparks and the occasional funny smell, all done with some fantastic and rare equipment. You won't believe your eyes. The show that works like magic to spell bind the audience, make them gasp, gape, wond...

An episode of the Bricolage Podcast, interviewing interesting people LIVE on stage. https://www.bricolage.run about this event: https://c3voc.de

This talk is about an Open Source robot version of me that I use instead of commuting. It uses web technologies and cheap, off the shelf hardware to give good quality audio and video, and also allows me to move around a bit. It's particularly good for small meetings where manifesting in a laptop or phone doesn't give me enough physical presence to participate fully. I'll run through the technologi...