Graph Theory

**Don’t miss the latest announcements from AWS re:Invent 2025!** Stay up to date with the newest innovations and hear firsthand insights from speakers who are already building and experimenting with these features in the real world. 🚀 **Seats are limited** 📍 **BDD 1075 Rooftop** 🗓 **Saturday, February 7** **⏰ 12:30 PM sharp** **Speakers:** * **Peter Bardawil** // Associate Director of Engineering @ Speedlane Peter Bardawil is a Lead Engineer and Associate Director at Speedlane, with over a decade of experience in web development and cloud systems. He's a full-stack engineer who also specializes in DevOps and cloud architecture, working with AWS, GCP, and Azure. Peter has led teams and helped build and scale large, high-impact projects used by thousands of people * **Awedis Keofteian** // Senior DevOps Engineer @ Washmen, AWS Hero Awedis (Avo) is a Senior DevOps Engineer at Washmen and an AWS Community Hero, passionate about building scalable, reliable, and efficient cloud architectures. Outside of work, he enjoys playing basketball, going for a jog, and staying active while exploring new tech ideas. * **Omar Chouman** // Senior Software Engineer @ Aspire Software A software engineer with hands-on experience building and scaling cloud-native systems on AWS, focusing on backend engineering, microservices, and performance optimization, and an active open-source contributor. * **Jean-Pierre Fakhry** // Head of AI @ Chizl, AI consultant at MITAI Jean-Pierre Fakhry is the Head of AI at Chizl, driving the company’s AI vision to redefine how investors and analysts access equity insights. He also serves as an AI Consultant for the Ministry of IT & AI in Lebanon, contributing to national AI strategy and digital transformation initiatives. An AI strategist and educator, Jean-Pierre works with startups and institutions on applied and generative AI and is a frequent speaker known for bridging technical depth with real-world impact. * **Hadi Abou Daya** // AI Engineer @ Savencia Hadi Abou Daya is a Data Scientist and AI Engineer currently working as a consultant in Paris. He builds LLM agents, RAG systems, computer vision, and causal inference projects for SaaS, ad-tech, mobility, and fnb companies. 🎯 **An afternoon packed with insights, networking, and innovation**

Join us for a casual chat over coffee & tea at Grandview Grind! Come out and meet some new people, enjoy your favorite drink, and make some new friends!

Dale Gnidovec, Curator of the Orton Hall Museum of Geology at The Ohio State University, will be presenting a program he has wanted to share with us for a long time: Plate Tectonics. His description of his program: Continents on the move - Nothing in Earth history makes sense without moving continents - it tells us why mountains, volcanoes, minerals, and fossils are where they are. This talk examines the evidence for continental drift, why it was disbelieved, and explains how the more-encompassing theory of plate tectonics was developed and eventually proven. Dale is an energetic, incredibly knowledgeable, and very entertaining speaker and this will be another wonderful program by Dale. Hope to see you there! Food and drinks will be provided at the event. Feel free to show up a little bit early to hang out and talk. Going forward our meetings will be hybrid. You can meet us in-person or attend online Join Zoom Meeting [https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87836564953?pwd=4Mi57ElZkDIFlb1fnlNwOJ0NiOK4tP.1](https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87836564953?pwd=4Mi57ElZkDIFlb1fnlNwOJ0NiOK4tP.1) Meeting ID: 878 3656 4953 Passcode: 760812 One tap mobile +19292056099,,87836564953#,,,,\*760812# US (New York) +13017158592,,87836564953#,,,,\*760812# US (Washington DC) The formal presentation will start at noon

As you may or may not know--I didn't until late last year--Aristotle wrote extensively on "friendship" in the Nicomachean Ethics. After 69 years the concept of friendship still creates questions and uncertainty. I had close friends in high school and for a few years after high school but our interests diverged and people moved all over the country so it was hard to maintain connections. * So if I/you haven't talked with a friend for several years, are you still friends? Are we friends who meet at Drunken Philosophy or Omnipresent Atheists? * Can you be friends with someone with whom you have virulently divergent political views? Sartre and Camus could not. * Aristotle regarded friendship as essential to a good life, not merely an added "bonus." Do you agree? * In the Nicomachean Ethics (Books VIII and IX), he claims that wealth and power are meaningless without friends. Trump has wealth and power but seems to have no real friends, but wealth and power seem meaningful to him in perverted ways. Can you have meaning in your life without friends? * Do men and women view and maintain friendships in different ways? * Aristotle categorizes friendship into three types, based on what forms the bond: * **Utility**: Based on mutual benefit, but this type is fragile and ends when the usefulness ceases. * **Pleasure**: Based on shared enjoyment (e.g., humor, hobbies). Common among youth but fades as interests change. * **Virtue (The "Complete" Friendship)**: Based on mutual respect for each other's character and goodness. You wish good for the other for their sake, not yours. * **Key Principles of "True" (Virtuous) Friendship:** * **Permanence**: Virtuous friendships last a lifetime whereas those based on utility and pleasure are fleeting. * **Reciprocity**: Requires mutual goodwill; secret or unreciprocated affection does not qualify. * **The "Second Self"**: A true friend is "another self"—their virtue helps you understand and improve yourself. * **Time and Intimacy**: Deep ("complete") friendships are few, built on time and shared experiences. * **Self-Love and Friendship:** * Good friendship starts with being a friend to yourself. * They distinguish shallow egoism (chasing honors) from real self-love (pursuing virtue). * A virtuous person’s pleasant self-company allows them to be a stable, good friend to others. * Aristotle argues that one's social circle ultimately reflects one's character—a view with striking relevance today. Well--the Drunken Philosophy social circle certainly reflects good character!