NUS Hackers

Hello all! Quick update on the timing for this week's Friday Hacks :) It will be held at 7pm. Let us know if you have any questions!

Hello hackers! Today’s work + hangout session is on from 2pm to 4pm, just like last week ;) We’ll again be at COM3 Seminar Room 13 (COM3-01-22). See you there!

Friday Hacks #263 🎉 🗓 Date/Time: Friday, 20 Sep, 8pm 📍 Venue: COM1-02-12, Seminar Room 12 🍕 Food and🧋drinks will be served! RSVP: Here Talk 1: Lessons Learned from 2 Decades of Open Source In this talk I want to share my experience in open source, how it affected me in my capacity as a programmer and what lessons I learned (both technical and non-technical). 🎤 Speaker Profile 🎤 I'm a professional Haskell developer and an avid open source enthusiast. I am from Germany and have been living in Singapore for the past two years. My biggest open source contribution has been the GHCup Haskell installer. I'm also on the Haskell core libraries committee.

We’re here! FCFS

Hey hackers! We’ve booked COM3 Seminar Room 13 for a casual hangout and work session, starting from 2pm later today! Some of us from the coreteam will be there. Feel free to bring anything you're working on, or just relaaaax 😎 We've got the room booked from 2 to 4, but if no one else has it after, we can stay longer. See ya!

Friday Hacks #262 🎉 🗓 Date/Time: Friday, 13 Sep, 7pm 📍 Venue: COM1-02-12, Seminar Room 12 🍕 Food and🧋drinks will be served! RSVP: Here Talk 1: How to share a secret (with your friends) Have you ever wondered how you could reveal a secret without actually exposing yourself? No? that's fine, besides who is ever just going to trust a single person? Unless... This short-talk will give a flavour into the world of Threshold-Ring Signing and their possible applications with as little math as possible. 🎤 Speaker Profile 🎤 Advised by Asst. Prof Li Jialin, Michael is a PhD candidate here at NUS; Working on applying cryptography to introduce characteristics not found in traditional Distributed system's protocols and algorithms.

Friday Hacks #262 🎉 🗓 Date/Time: Friday, 13 Sep, 8pm 📍 Venue: COM1-02-12, Seminar Room 12 🍕 Food and🧋drinks will be served! RSVP: Here Talk 2: AI in Complex Adversarial Games You might have come across alpha-beta pruning. But you probably have been disappointed to realise that the most complex game it can solve (in reasonable time) is tic-tac-toe. But, did you know that Stockfish algorithm, the current strongest AI both in Chess and Chinese Chess, is based on alpha-beta pruning? What did the Stockfish community do to make alpha-beta pruning possible? Let’s find out! 🎤 Speaker Profile 🎤 Nguyen is a year 3 Computer Science student. He is passionate about developing classical AI algorithms, especially those for adversarial games. His ultimate-tictactoe engine is currently top 5% worldwide on Codingame.

Hackerschool: Demystifying GDB 🗓 Thursday, 12 September, 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM 📍COM3-01-20 (Seminar Room 11) 🧁 Refreshments will be served! 💌 RSVP: NUS Non-NUS 📝 Ever wondered how to incorporate debugging with GDB into your C programming workflow? Had a hard time learning to use GDB to debug your application? In this workshop, we will be learning to use GDB to effectively debug our application. ✅ Requirements: If you’re using macOS or Linux, you’re all set! Windows users: You can install Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) or run Ubuntu in VirtualBox. Ubuntu VM installation guide: HERE WSL Installation Guide: HERE 🎤 Speaker Profile 🎤 NUS Greyhats are an information security interest group based in the National University of Singapore. They play CTFs and organize weekly meetups they call Security Wednesdays! See you there! 👋

Hackerschool: Demystifying GDB 🗓 Thursday, 12 September, 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM 📍COM3-01-20 (Seminar Room 11) 🧁 Refreshments will be served! 💌 RSVP: NUS Non-NUS 📝 Ever wondered how to incorporate debugging with GDB into your C programming workflow? Had a hard time learning to use GDB to debug your application? In this workshop, we will be learning to use GDB to effectively debug our application. ✅ Requirements: If you’re using macOS or Linux, you’re all set! Windows users: You can install Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) or run Ubuntu in VirtualBox. Ubuntu VM installation guide: HERE WSL Installation Guide: HERE 🎤 Speaker Profile 🎤 NUS Greyhats are an information security interest group based in the National University of Singapore. They play CTFs and organize weekly meetups they call Security Wednesdays! See you there! 👋

Hackers Toolbox: Beginner's Guide to the Terminal Want to learn how to take full advantage of the tools your computer provides? In this workshop, you’ll learn: - What the terminal is and how to work with textual interfaces - How to navigate your system and manage files - Write simple scripts to automate daily tasks 🗓 Tuesday, 10 Sep, 6.30pm to 8.30pm 📍 COM3-01-20, Seminar Room 11 Sign up here! NUS Non-NUS No previous experience required. The terminal is an incredibly efficient way to interact with your machine, and by the end of this session, you’ll feel confident using it to simplify your workflows. Requirements If you’re using macOS or Linux, you’re all set! Windows users: You can install Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) or run Ubuntu in VirtualBox. WSL Installation Guide: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10.