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## **From Data Autonomy to Adaptive AI: Building Systems That Change How Decisions Get Made** **DOORS OPEN: 18:30** **TALKS START: 19:00** **NETWORKING: 20:00 - 21:30** ## **Our Speakers** **Marta Expósito Ventura, PhD, Head of Data, Stark Future** **Africa Perianez, Co-founder & CEO, Causal Foundry** ## **Marta Esposito - From ticket queues to data autonomy - engineering the shift** **Marta Esposito is Head of Data at Stark Future, an electric motorcycle company building high-performance, connected vehicles at the intersection of hardware, software, manufacturing and data.** **In her talk, Marta will explore what it takes to move a data function away from reactive ticket queues and towards a more autonomous operating model. As connected products generate increasingly rich streams of operational, product and user data, the role of data teams changes: from responding to requests, to enabling better decisions across the organisation.** **Her session will look at the engineering, organisational and cultural shift behind data autonomy: how teams structure data work, prioritise internal demand, build trust in data products and move closer to the real systems they support.** ## **Africa Perianez - Designing AI for imperfect conditions** **Africa Perianez is Co-founder and CEO of Causal Foundry, where she leads a team of engineers and AI scientists building reinforcement learning and personalisation technologies for real-world operational decision-making.** **Her work focuses on adaptive AI infrastructure that supports decisions across healthcare, logistics, behavioural nudging, demand forecasting, stockout prevention and resource allocation. Causal Foundry works with global partners including the Gates Foundation, Google.org, GAVI, Lilly and Johnson & Johnson, applying AI in environments where decisions are complex, resources are constrained and impact matters.** **In this talk, Africa will explore how AI systems move beyond prediction and dashboards into adaptive decision support. What does it take to build systems that can operate across changing contexts, local constraints and human behaviour? And how do you design AI that supports better decisions without pretending the real world is cleaner than it is?** ## **What’s In It For You?** **Some of the most interesting work in AI today is not just about building more powerful models. It is about turning data, machine learning and decision intelligence into systems that people and organisations can actually use.** **In this DeepTech Talks edition, Marta and Africa will explore two complementary sides of applied AI: how data teams become more autonomous inside complex organisations, and how adaptive AI systems support operational decisions in the real world.** **You’ll hear about:** * **How data teams move from reactive service models to autonomous data products** * **What it takes to build AI systems that support operational decision-making** * **How reinforcement learning and personalisation can be applied beyond consumer tech** * **The gap between dashboards, predictions and decisions that actually change outcomes** * **How technical teams work with messy real-world systems, constraints and stakeholders** **Expect a grounded conversation about AI that becomes s part of how organisations sense, decide and act.** ## **Who Should Come?** * **Data scientists, ML engineers and AI engineers** * **Data leaders, analytics leaders and engineering managers** * **Product leaders working with data-heavy or AI-enabled systems** * **Deep tech founders and technical operators** * **People working across healthtech, mobility, logistics, manufacturing or decision intelligence** * **Anyone curious about how applied AI becomes operational infrastructure** ## **Extras** **We’ll have food and drinks. 🍷🍕** **Come ready to meet engineers, founders, esearchers, data leaders and technology builders working on the next generation of applied AI systems.** **Spaces are limited, so grab your spot on Meetup while you can.** **Brought to you by DeepTech Recruitment & Cloudworks.** The organisers and venue reserve the right to refuse admission or entry and shall not be held liable for any incidents, losses or damages occurring during the event.

¿Quieres ponerte en forma, moverte y sentirte mejor en tu cuerpo? Te invitamos a **Gym Mujeres**, una clase dinámica y accesible para mujeres donde trabajarás todo el cuerpo en un ambiente cercano, respetuoso y sin presión. ✨ **Primera clase de prueba GRATIS** 👉 Ideal para mujeres que quieren empezar o retomar actividad física 👉 No necesitas estar en forma para venir ¿Qué trabajamos? • Estiramientos • Tonificación muscular • Postura corporal • Coordinación con movimiento y danza • Relajación Las clases se realizan **sin zapatillas**, para favorecer una mejor conexión con el cuerpo. **Con Núria Muñoz** Licenciada en Educación Física (INEFC Barcelona) y con formación en danza africana en Nueva York y Senegal. Todos los martes 🕡 18:30 – 20:00 📍 Poblenou - Barcelona WhatsApp Núria: +34 646 244 141

New Meetup is here! Let's gooo! We have some amazing speakers, and pizza and beer will be available after the event. ────────── **18:00: Welcome** Grab a beer, a snack, and a seat until everybody arrives! **18:30 Intro by Host Neciu Dan** **18:45 The Package Was Fine Yesterday: Why Your Dependencies Are a Security Risk - and What to Do About It** Speaker: [Vitaly Baev](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vitaly-baev/), Senior Frontend Engineer @ Revolut Every JS project relies heavily on third-party code. Some of it runs during install, some in CI, some inside the editor, and some with access to real credentials. This talk explains how recent supply-chain attacks abused that trust and what developers can do to reduce risk without stopping delivery. **19:20 Under the hood: How V8 powers your JS apps (and why you should care)** Speaker: [Gwyneth Rose](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gwyneth-rose/), Senior Engineer at Lodgify You've transpiled your JavaScript, minified it, chunked it, and sent it to your CDN. But what happens when the code actually hits the browser? In this talk, we'll walk through the workings of V8, the JavaScript engine that powers Chromium-based browsers and Node.js. We'll focus on its JIT (just-in-time) compiler, how it learns about your code at runtime, and how it optimizes for performance as you use a web app. We'll also go over concrete techniques to make the JIT compiler's job easier, helping you stay in V8's fastest execution path. **19:50: Drinks and networking!** **20:45 Meetup finished** Would you like to talk at the next meetup? Reach out to Dan Neciu [on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/neciudan/) And please help us spread the news and grow the community: **(FOR EARLY ACCESS: WE ALWAYS POST FIRST ON SOCIAL MEDIA)** [Twitter(X)](https://x.com/ReactJsBCN) [BlueSky](https://bsky.app/profile/reactbarcelona.bsky.social) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/reactjs-barcelona/) [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/reactjs_barcelona/) ────────── **Sponsors:** **Lodgify** Lodgify is a constantly growing tech start-up, focused on building vacation rental software that enables vacation rental owners to independently manage and market their business online. We do so by providing them with easy-to-build websites, including a booking and reservation system, various synchronisation options, and payment collection options. We are +350 Lodgifiers strong, and you can find us working in Barcelona and all around the world! We are working in a hybrid mode and provide our team members with an option to work from home and spend additional time with their family, friends and pets. With more than 60 nationalities, we celebrate diversity daily! With 43% of female and 57% of male employees we are striving to establish a gender balance. Actions are continuously taken to include more women in our Tech teams. ────────── **Join the 30-Day React Challenge for FREE!** \- Master core hooks like \`useState\`\, \`useEffect\`\, and \`useReducer\` \- Unlock advanced hooks like \`useTransition\` and \`useLayoutEffect\` \- Learn powerful patterns like Compound Components to build flexible UIs \- Tackle tricky subjects like refs\, context\, and state management \- Get a peek into the future of React with experimental features \- Receive practical\, real\-world examples you can use immediately **[Join here](https://neciudan.dev/react-subscribe)** ────────── **Join the waitlist for a FREE Course: Master Frontend Security** Join the exclusive waitlist for premium early access to the most comprehensive FREE frontend security course. Be among the first to master XSS, CSRF, exploits, and critical vulnerabilities across React, Vue, Angular, and Vanilla JS. **[Join here](https://neciudan.dev/master-security)**

🌸 Este es un lugar seguro, creado de corazón a corazón para encontrar en el círculo el sostén de la comunidad femenina. 🌹 Nos reunimos a celebrar el sagrado femenino que habita en todas y cada una de nosotras. ✨Meditación ✨Yoga ✨Movimiento Consciente ✨Ritual ✨Creatividad ✨Celebración Acompañadas por la magia de la Luna y el Mar 🌊🌝 🤍 Aportación voluntaria y consciente ✨✨✨ En este encuentro nos reunimos para despertar la diosa interna que ya esta dentro y cada una de nosotras 🦋 Trae una esterilla 🍶 Agua ❤️ El corazón abierto ¡Únete a la comunidad de WhatsApp para comunicarnos con facilidad! ☺️ https://chat.whatsapp.com/ErEX7TOJFvqAuln5daZhUQ

For this month's Meetup, we are going back to the Cibernàrium at Barcelona Activa, hand in hand with **Mobile World Capital**. We will have two talks: one about **Feedback for programming learners** and another one about a **Python-powered security lab**. \-\-\- Schedule: * 18:00: Welcome * ️ 18:15: Talks * **&** 20:00: Networking! * 20:45: Bye! \-\-\- * ➡️ **What: Feedback immediat per estudiants de programació: Powered by Python** * **Who**: Moisès Gómez Girón * ⏱ **Duration**: 45 minutes * **Language**: Catalan * **Abstract**: Presentació d’una eina per a l’ensenyament de la programació, creada per minimitzar el temps entre la resolució de l’exercici i la recepció de la retroacció. L’eina ha estat desenvolupada al llarg dels anys en paral·lel al seu ús a l’aula, sota pressió per terminis ajustats, canvis de temari i estudiants amb imaginació per trobar maneres enginyoses d’enganyar el sistema. El resultat és una història de compromisos i solucions creatives, des de prohibir funcionalitats concretes del llenguatge fins a l’ús exclusiu de tecnologies gratuïtes. \-\-\-\- * ➡️ **What: Python-powered Cybersecurity Lab: Caldera, Elastic Stack & ATT&CK simluation** * **Who**: Mauricio Volcanes * ⏱ **Duration**: 45 minutes * **Language**: Spanish * **Abstract**: En esta charla mostraremos un laboratorio completo de ciberseguridad compuesto por máquinas virtuales, Elastic Stack y el framework MITRE Caldera (Python). A través de una demostración guiada, analizaremos cómo simular técnicas del framework MITRE ATT&CK y cómo correlacionarlas en tiempo real con logs de sistemas Linux para detectar comportamiento malicioso. \-\-\-\- ➡️ Location: Cibernàrium 22@ - Barcelona Activa. Carrer de Roc Boronat 117, 08018 Barcelona \-\-\-\- ➡️ Only register if you can attend! * There are limited seats, so please be responsible when signing up; we will be checking the attendee list in case full capacity is reached. * If you can't make it, please free up your seat, so someone else can attend. We keep a list with repeated offenders! \-\-\-\- ➡️ More at https://pybcn.org: * We want talk proposals! [Send yours](https://pybcn.org/pybcn_association/propose-a-talk/) * Want to [publish a job offer](https://pybcn.org/job-offers)? * Follow [@PyBCN](https://twitter.com/pybcn), [@PyBCN in BlueSky](https://bsky.app/profile/pybcn.org) for pictures, slides, videos and more

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**Free Coding Workshop - In-Person Workshop!** IMPORTANT: For this event, you will need to register on the codebar page: [https://codebar.io/barcelona](https://codebar.io/barcelona) Come and learn or teach with us! This time, [Koerber](https://koerber-supplychain.com/) opens its doors to host the event: We are a non-profit group of students and coaches that love technology and strongly believe that it should be accessible to everyone. For this reason, we run regular free coding meetups for women, members of the LGBTQ community, and other underrepresented groups in tech. Our goal is to enable underrepresented people to learn to program in a safe and collaborative environment and expand their career opportunities. Not sure if this event is for you yet? Join our slack channel where you can get in touch with other students and coaches not only from Barcelona but also from other cities where [codebar.io](http://codebar.io/) has events: Join our Slack channel at: [https://slack.codebar.io](https://slack.codebar.io/). Help us spread the word by sharing it with your network :)

**Join our Telegram Channel– Siri Quantum:** [https://t.me/+6BN_YIxiSHY4ZjI8](https://t.me/+6BN_YIxiSHY4ZjI8) **Wednesday July 1st · 6:30–9 pm** **Facilitated by Ramon Perelló** **Exploring hidden family patterns and relationship dynamics** Many of the challenges we experience in relationships, work, or personal wellbeing are often connected to hidden dynamics within our family system. Family Constellations offer a powerful experiential method to reveal these unconscious patterns and open space for understanding, healing, and new movement in our lives. This **monthly 2.5-hour group session** provides a clear and grounded introduction to Family Constellations as a practical tool for exploring personal and relational dynamics in a respectful and supportive environment. Through experiential group work, participants can observe how systemic and family patterns influence our lives — often without conscious awareness — and gain new perspectives that support integration and change. ## Topics often explored in constellations • Relationship patterns and recurring conflicts • Difficulties with parents or family members • Feeling stuck in life or career • Repeating emotional patterns • Separation, divorce, or family conflict • Belonging and identity within the family system • Generational or ancestral patterns • Personal direction and life decisions ## How the circle works • Two participants will have the opportunity to constellate a personal topic • Other participants take part as representatives (no previous experience required) • Guided integration to support clarity and understanding • A respectful and confidential group space that supports the process Participants who will constellate will have a **brief pre-session call with the facilitator** to clarify their intention and understand the process. This circle is suitable whether you wish to work on a personal topic, learn more about systemic dynamics, or simply observe the process in a professional group setting. No previous experience is required. ## Contribution • €60 – constellation work • Representatives attend free of charge Places are limited. To reserve your place: Contact Ramon at **+34 670 086 420** **To register for participation please fill out this form:** **https://forms.gle/LEdNEqWRDsN1YGa17** ## Facilitator **Ramon Perelló** is a holistic therapist with extensive experience in Family Constellation work. His approach is practical, grounded, and respectful of each system. Ramon facilitates with clarity and presence, creating a safe environment where participants can explore patterns, gain insight, and integrate their experience in a supportive group context. More information: [Family Constellation Circle](https://siriquantum.com/family-constellations-workshop/)

**🔎The session:** AI is already part of how we work, but most people are still using it as a chat or an autocomplete tool. The next step is moving from asking for help to letting AI actually do parts of the work for you. **That is where agents come in**. In this session, we explore **how to build and use AI agents in a practical way using tools like GitHub Copilot, Agent Mode, MCP, and reusable skills**. The focus is not on complex architectures, but on what is useful in real day-to-day work. We walk you through **what an AI agent is** and why it makes sense to use one instead of just prompts or simple automations. You will see how agents can reason, plan, and execute tasks across multiple steps, and how to apply patterns that already work in production. We also look at **how this fits into your existing workflow**, especially in environments like VS Code, and **how agents can connect to real systems and data**. Real examples will show how to automate documentation, interact with data platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, and create reusable workflows that save time. The session also **covers common mistakes**, including overcomplicating solutions with too many agents, and how to keep things simple, controlled, and maintainable. 🎯**The goal is to give you a clear and practical understanding so you can start using agents in your own work without overengineering.** 👩‍💻**This session is for you if:** * you are a developer working with code on a daily basis * you use tools like VS Code, GitHub, or similar environments * you are an engineer interested in improving productivity using AI beyond autocomplete * you want to explore how to integrate AI agents into real workflows -No prior experience with AI agents is required -Basic understanding of development workflows is enough 📋**Agenda** 🙋18:00 Registration & Welcome **🗣️18:30** Session and Q&A 🌮19:30 Drinks & Bites We look forward to this inspiring evening together! 🤩

At InnoIT Consulting, we are delighted to invite you to our upcoming event, organized in collaboration with *DevOps BCN*, on **Thursday, July 2**. 🎙️*Ship Without Fear: Specs, AI, and Modern DevOps* **SUMMARY** We will be joined by **[Matīss Treinis](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matisst/)** (Creator and Author, SpecDD) and **[Vicent Soria](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vicentsoria/)** (Fractional Infrastructure Engineer, Tech A Breath). 🎙️**I apologise for the confusion! Anyway, here's the same plausible but wrong software again**, Matīss Treinis Introduction to SpecDD, a Specification-driven development framework that enables humans and AI agents to build better software. 🎙️**DevOps Horror Stories Vol. 1**, Vicent Soria We will be reviewing some of my nightmares: the time I dropped a production database, the two days of downtime, and the rewrite pushed to production the very day its lead developer walked out the door. Real DevOps disasters, what went wrong, and the hard-won lessons that survived the chaos. Come for the schadenfreude, stay for the postmortems. With time for a dynamic **Q&A session and, of course, our networking with food 🍕 and drinks 🍻.** **👥 Do you want to come along?** Share this invitation with all your contacts, or click the "share" button below. **WHEN:** Thursday, July 2 at 6:30 PM **WHERE:** Oficinas InnoIT Consulting, [C/ Diputació, 280, Bajos 2ª, 08009, Barcelona](https://maps.app.goo.gl/zC6Sf2jUogxauX317) **LANGUAGE:** English **Join our [newsletter](https://www.inno-it.es/newsletter/)!** Don't miss out on upcoming events, exciting news and special job offers.

Mentes Inversoras: Introducción a la Inversión (Formación Gratuita) ​¿Te interesan las finanzas pero no sabes por dónde empezar? Mentes Inversoras es un espacio gratuito y sin tecnicismos para aprender las bases desde cero, en un ambiente cercano y seguro. ​📚 ¿Qué haremos? ​Aprende: Explicación sencilla de conceptos clave (mercado, interés compuesto y entorno financiero). ​Comparte: Ronda abierta para resolver todas tus dudas. ​Evoluciona: Charla relajada para compartir recursos educativos gratuitos y hacer networking. ​🎯 ¿Es para ti? ​Si partes de nivel cero absoluto y buscas explicaciones claras. ​Si quieres adquirir cultura financiera para tu día a día. ​🔒 Compromiso: Evento 100% educativo. No gestionamos capital, no promovemos plataformas ni vendemos productos financieros. ​ ​💸 Precio: Gratuito (solo se pide una consumición para apoyar al local). ​⚠️ Aforo limitado. ​👉 Haz clic en "Asistir" y asegura tu plaza. ¡Te esperamos!

**Scientific Paper Reading Club: Beyond Transformers & Multimodal Frontiers** This is part of the scientific paper reading club. This Saturday, we are expanding our horizons beyond standard LLMs! Following our recent discussions, we will be diving into points 3 and 5 from our reading list presentation: **Alternative architectures (SSM/RNN)** and **Multimodal foundation models**. To make it even more exciting, we will be connecting these topics to some of the freshest breakthroughs presented at the recent ICLR conference ([https://iclr.cc/](https://www.google.com/url?sa=E&q=https%3A%2F%2Ficlr.cc%2F)). **What to expect:** Our presenter, Maxim Musin, will guide us through these two major frontiers in modern AI: 1. **Alternative Architectures (SSM/RNN):** Transformers are incredibly powerful, but their computational costs remain a massive bottleneck for long contexts. We will discuss why State Space Models (SSMs) like Mamba are emerging as the next big leap. We will look at fresh ICLR[[1](https://www.google.com/url?sa=E&q=https%3A%2F%2Fvertexaisearch.cloud.google.com%2Fgrounding-api-redirect%2FAUZIYQGC4niR9aCGjHBT9LMF4wz46OkiGKU9B7nghuo3OzbRQCWNy4fGizlUydBsvuhZgYay8Y31rCTrfquWnuEHjAibPui0IrBi71JMXQG59U0rk5DKa-hzJg%3D%3D)] insights, such as "Mamba-3: Improved Sequence Modeling using State Space Principles" [https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15569](https://www.google.com/url?sa=E&q=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F2603.15569) and "MambaSL: Exploring Single-Layer Mamba for Time Series Classification" [https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15174](https://www.google.com/url?sa=E&q=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F2604.15174) 2. **Multimodal Foundation Models:** We will explore how AI is learning to "think" natively across different continuous spaces and complex interactions. We will touch on standout ICLR papers like "Massively Multimodal Foundation Models: A Framework for Capturing Interactions with Specialized Mixture-of-Experts" [https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25678](https://www.google.com/url?sa=E&q=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F2509.25678) and "Theory of Space: Can Foundation Models Construct Spatial Beliefs through Active Exploration?" [https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07055](https://www.google.com/url?sa=E&q=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F2602.07055) You don't need a heavy math background to join—Maxim will break down the intuition behind these complex architectures so that the core concepts are easy to follow for everyone. **Meeting Details:** 🗣 **Presenter:** Maxim Musin 💬 **Language of the meeting:** English 🎟 **Entrance donation:** 10 eur 📍 **Location:** Maui coworking (Note: For some reason, Meetup maps sometimes wrongly point to other addresses. Here is the exact address: [https://maps.app.goo.gl/fjx9t4zG8GnEmXLr9?g_st=ac](https://www.google.com/url?sa=E&q=https%3A%2F%2Fmaps.app.goo.gl%2Ffjx9t4zG8GnEmXLr9%3Fg_st%3Dac) ) Looking forward to a great discussion this Saturday! Aparently there is no way of fixing meetup's markdown mess, sorry for this guys, just use your abstract imagination and experience with latech to read anouncement, this markdown render problem seem so be some kind of bug, i cleaned it in the redactor but with no effect, probably copying and pasting it clean into editor will solve it, but generating clean landing page with similar capabilities in claude code would also solve it in a way, so i didn't bother, see you at saturday

Join our Telegram Channel– Siri Quantum: [https://t.me/+6BN_YIxiSHY4ZjI8](https://t.me/+6BN_YIxiSHY4ZjI8) This workshop is guided entirely in English. Discover the hidden dynamics that shape relationships, emotions and life patterns through the profound experiential practice of Family Constellations. This monthly constellation circle offers a safe and respectful space to explore unconscious family dynamics, emotional blocks and systemic patterns that may be influencing your life. Through group constellations, representation work and guided integration, participants are invited into a deep process of awareness, healing and reconnection. ✨ No previous experience is needed. During the workshop: • Two participants will have the opportunity to constellate • Representatives are welcome to participate for FREE • Guided integration and grounding practices included • Small confidential group setting This experience may support: • Emotional healing • Greater clarity and self-understanding • Release of unconscious family patterns • Improved relationships and inner balance • Deep personal insight and transformation 👤 Facilitated by Ramon Perelló Holistic Psychotherapist, meditation teacher and Family Constellation facilitator. 📍 Asociación Siri Quantum – Poblenou, Barcelona 📅 Wednesday, July 1st, 2026 🕡 18:30 – 21:00 CONSTELLATION: 60€ REPRESENTATIVES: FREE IMPORTANT: This session is guided entirely in English.

Buzoku Meetup | Web3 and AI | Barcelona Join us in Sant Gervasi for Buzoku, a bi monthly casual meetup for people building in Web3, AI, and digital systems. What started as a Web3 focused group is now expanding to include AI builders as well. The format No panels No presentations No agenda We meet at a bar, grab a drink, and talk. That is it. Who comes A mix of: • Engineers and technical builders • Founders and operators • Investors and traders • Designers and curious minds Working across: • Crypto, Web3, and digital assets • AI, agents, and applied machine learning You do not need to be working at the intersection. If you are deep in either space, you will find your people here. We are also very interested in where AI and crypto meet, including agentic systems, automated finance, and new coordination models. What to expect • Real conversations about what people are actually building • War stories, ideas, experiments, and lessons learned • A relaxed environment where you can meet people naturally No pressure to pitch. No structured talks. Just good people and good discussions. Why join • Meet high quality builders in Barcelona • Exchange ideas without the noise of formal events • Find collaborators, hires, or new opportunities 🍺 🍷 Drinks on us, both alcoholic and non alcoholic We try to keep the group high signal. If you are actively building or deeply involved in AI or crypto, you will get the most out of it.

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http://photos2.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/2/a/9/6/600_348310902.jpeg Instructor - Crow, HPS Class fee is $30 at the door or approved exchange RSVP with Advance pay of $25 (discounted) by PayPal on the web or by contacting Enchanted Elements (614) 437-2642. Reservations made directly to Enchanted Elements will be added to the class list manually not online. Private Instruction ~ Closed to the Public ~ Initiated Members Only Please come prepared for ritual. Blessings ~ Crow

Come join us to discuss our July pick "Tusk Love" by Thea Guanzon! Book description: A merchant’s daughter who yearns for adventure gets more than she bargained for when she falls for a broodingly handsome stranger in this saucy romantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hurricane Wars. “A true delight of a book! Spicy and heartfelt—this one is a winner all around.”—Katee Robert, author of Neon Gods As the daughter of an ambitious merchant, Guinevere’s path has been predetermined: marry into a noble house of the Dwendalian Empire, raise her family’s station, and live quietly as a lordling’s obedient wife. But Guinevere longs for a life unbounded by expectations, for freedom and passion and adventure. Those distant dreams become a sudden reality when her caravan is beset by bandits, leaving her guards slain and Guinevere stranded alone on the dangerous Amber Road. Her only chance of survival is to travel alongside Oskar, the aloof half-orc who saved her during the attack. Unlike Guinevere, Oskar’s path is not so set in stone. With his mother dead and his apprenticeship abandoned, all that’s left is a long, lonely walk to a land he’s never seen to find family he’s never met. The last thing he needs is a spoiled waif like Guinevere slowing him down—even if the spark between them sizzles with promise. Despite his cold exterior, Oskar is brave and thoughtful and unlike anyone Guinevere has ever met. And while Guinevere may be sheltered, she brings out a softness in him that he has never dared to feel before. As the flames of their passion grow, they realize that soon they’ll need to choose between their expected destinations or their blossoming romance. Written by New York Times bestselling author Thea Guanzon at the behest of Critical Role’s Jester Lavorre, Tusk Love brings the most romantic story on Exandrian bookshelves to life.

You can sleep in on the Sesquicentennial (observed), we’re shifting to the following Friday. But join the local UX community for a chat and some biscuits to catch up. If you were in CA for Figma Config, tell us all the lines and you can tell me how I can animate an SVG without coding it by hand, and why I’d even want to. Thanks to the team at Nationwide of supporting the group.

NFT's are here to stay folks! This is a group for like minded people interested in understanding, leveraging, using, creating for, profiting from, trading too i suppose, NFT's.. everything around them, complexity, fear and exploits, best practices and more. **PLUS** This group will talk AI ART tools, techniques, artists, video, audio, prototypes and more in the AI assisted production space- ART specifically, but we can get into any aspect of some of the cooler things happening in AI in general.

Most people use LLMs by feel: ask a question, read the answer, decide whether it “seems good,” and move on. That works for casual use. It does not work when you are building software, automating workflows, writing important documents, or relying on AI for anything that needs to be repeatable. In this talk, we’ll look at how to improve and evaluate the inputs and outputs of LLMs using practical measurement techniques. We’ll cover how prompt changes affect results, how to compare outputs, how to build simple evaluation sets, and how math-based methods like similarity scoring can help you move beyond guesswork. This will be beginner-friendly, so even if you don't know anything about AI, you should get something out of it. However, this will be a little more technical than our intro talks. You do not need to be an AI researcher, but programmers and technically curious attendees will get a lot out of it. We’ll cover: * Why “it looks good” is not enough * How to improve prompts by changing the input, context, and constraints * How to compare LLM outputs more systematically * Basic evaluation techniques for accuracy, consistency, and usefulness * How embeddings, cosine similarity, and scoring can help evaluate results * Where automated evaluation works — and where humans still need to stay in the loop By the end, you’ll have a practical mental model for treating LLMs less like magic and more like systems you can test, measure, and improve. LOGISTICS AND PARKING: The talk starts at 7:00 PM. The first half hour is reserved for everyone to get set up and mingle. Free pizza and drinks! The cheapest parking option is to find street parking, which will only cost you a few bucks. Otherwise, park in the nearby veteran's museum lot for $8. It's highly recommended you avoid the nearby $15 garage parking.

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