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< Back Joe Cleary Local-born and bred Joe Cleary is one-half of Hypermedia events who run monthly events within the Fourth Portal since August 2023. I first discovered the Fourth Portal in July 2023 from a friend of mine Harriet; she had been coming in since very close to the opening date, I believe. Q1: How and when did you first discover the Fourth Portal? I first discovered the Fourth Portal in July 2023 from a friend of mine Harriet; she had been coming in since very close to the opening date, I believe. Q2: What were your initial impressions? I was captivated from the off - if I'm being totally honest. Everywhere you look for longer than a couple of seconds, you find something new to interest you that all seem to amalgamate into one fluid entity. It's a must-have for Gravesend and Kent alike. Q3: How has Fourth Portal inspired you? The Fourth Portal has bridged the gap between my "imposter" syndrome and my ADHD and gave me the confidence and as equally important, the facility and encouragement to pursue my passions, which otherwise would remain an echo chamber in my head. It's been a very vital tool in allowing me to give myself a fair chance and level the playing field. Q4: Will the inspiration be of benefit in the future? The inspiration is not only of an emotional and support benefit for someone like myself, but it is also shaping up to be a major contribution to the event me and co-founder, Harriet run here one Wednesday a month, which is a complete bi-product of us just coming here to chill out and take in our surroundings. Q5: (optional) Anything you wish to add? I would like to thank Harriet, John, Lauren and all the people behind the scenes for the work they put in. I would also like to thank everyone who has attended hypermedia in any format and Harriet for all she does. Previous Next

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Nathan Greywater Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #176 15 July 2025 SKRONK #177 2 September 2025 SKRONK #178 16 September 2025 SKRONK #175 1 July 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Derek Mason Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #2 21 June 2016 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Sid Phipps Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #178 16 September 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

Hypermedia presented an emerging evening of DIY poetry, spoken word, music, open mic and discussion. Curated by Gravesend artists Hypermedia. Hypermedia DIY Open Space 1 < Back 9 August 2023 Hypermedia presented an emerging evening of DIY poetry, spoken word, music, open mic and discussion. Curated by Gravesend artists Hypermedia. Previous Next About this event Foruth Portal and Gravesend's very own Hypermedia presented an emerging evening of DIY poetry, spoken word, music, open mic and discussion. Instigated by local Gravesend artists Hypermedia, Harriet Hammond and Joe Clarey, this was an open emerging format pushing the boundaries of open mic. Welcoming to all ages and stages of the creative journey, the evening offers a relaxed space to perform or listen in an informal atmosphere. Fourth Portal - Platform-7's very own David Lee Morgan open the event with a guest performance. For more, contact via Instagram Harriet or Joe from Hypermedia. Alternatively email info@fourthportal.com This event series is ongoing. Visit Event Page MORE ON THIS EVENT BELOW Previous Next Event Documentation Previous Next

< Back What is TinyML? TinyML has been gaining traction due to the development of hardware and software ecosystems that support it. The tool has made it possible to implement machine learning models in low-energy systems, like microcontrollers, TinyML can be used in a wide range of sectors, including agriculture, industrial predictive maintenance, and customer experience. It can also be used for computer vision, visual wake words, keyword spotters, gesture recognition, and more. Datacamp 26 Aug 2024 What is Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML)? TinyML is a type of machine learning that allows models to run on smaller, less powerful devices. It involves hardware, algorithms, and software that can analyze sensor data on these devices with very low power consumption, making it ideal for always-on use-cases and battery-operated devices. All around us every day Machine learning models play a prominent role in our daily lives – whether we know it or not. Throughout the course of a typical day, the odds are that you will interact with some machine learning model since they have permeated almost all the digital products we interact with; for example, social media services, virtual personal assistance, search engines, and spam filtering by your email hosting service. Despite the many instances of machine learning in daily life, there are still several areas the technology has failed to reach. The cause? Many machine learning models, especially state-of-the-art (SOTA) architectures, require significant resources. This demand for high-performance computing power has confined several machine learning applications to the cloud – on-demand computer system resource provider. Read more... Originally posted February 2023 https://www.datacamp.com/blog/what-is-tinyml-tiny-machine-learning For more: Machine Learning, Neural Network, Infrastructure Previous Next

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Rick Irvine Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #5 9 August 2016 SKRONK #176 15 July 2025 SKRONK #177 2 September 2025 SKRONK #178 16 September 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Mark Wastell Percussion Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Boat-Ting Nov25 3 November 2025 Boat-Ting Nov24 4 November 2024 Boat-Ting Oct25 6 October 2025 ImproVox #05 10 December 2024 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Scott Biagi Accordion Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs ImproVox #10 30 June 2025 ImproVox #01 8 July 2024 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

< Back A Bold New Plan For Preserving Online Privacy And Security Decoupling our identities from our data and actions could safeguard our secrets IEEE Spectrum 27 Dec 2023 Three classes of new technology developed in the last few years now make decoupling practical in many more applications. Imagine you’re on a Zoom call. Your device and those of your colleagues are sending video to Zoom’s servers. By default, this is encrypted when sent to Zoom, but Zoom can decrypt it. That means Zoom’s servers see the video and hear the audio, and then forward it to others on the call. Zoom also knows who’s talking to whom, and when. Meetings that were once held in a private conference room are now happening in the cloud, and third parties like Zoom see it all: who, what, when, where. There’s no reason a videoconferencing company has to learn such sensitive information about every organization it provides services to. But that’s the way it works today, and we’ve all become used to it. There are multiple threats to the security of that Zoom call. A Zoom employee could go rogue and snoop on calls. Zoom could spy on calls of other companies or harvest and sell user data to data brokers. It could use your personal data to train its AI models. And even if Zoom and all its employees are completely trustworthy, the risk of Zoom getting breached is omnipresent. Whatever Zoom can do with your data in motion, a hacker can do to that same data in a breach. Decoupling data in motion could address those threats. Videoconferencing doesn’t need access to unencrypted video to push bits between your device and others. A properly decoupled video service could secure the who, what, where, and when of your data in motion, beginning with the “what”—the raw content of the call. True end-to-end encryption of video and audio would keep that content private to authorized participants in a call and nobody else. (Zoom does currently offer this option, but using it disables many other features.) https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-privacy For more: AI, Machine Learning, Cloud, Security, Protocols, GPU, TEE, CPU, Decoupling, Algorithm, Design Previous Next

All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Paul Taylor Poetry Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Flimflam 24 September 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number

< Back Designing A Sustainable Material For 3D Printing With Spent Coffee Grounds Don’t throw out those used coffee grounds—use them for 3D printing instead. Any object you create can be thrown back into a coffee grinder and reused on a new object. ars TECHNICA 21 Sept 2023 “You can make a lot of things with coffee grounds,” said co-author Michael Rivera of the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the ATLAS Institute, who specializes in digital fabrication and human-computer interactions. “And when you don’t want it anymore, you can throw it back into a coffee grinder and use the grounds to print again. Our vision is that you could just pick up a few things at a supermarket and online and get going.” As 3D printers have moved into more widespread use, it has sparked concerns about environmental sustainability, from the high energy consumption to the thermoplastics used as a printing material—most commonly polylactic acid (PLA). PLA waste usually ends up in a landfill where it can take as long as 1,000 years to decompose, per Rivera. While there have been efforts to recycle PLA in the same way plastic (PET) soda bottles are typically recycled, it's an energy-intensive process that can't be done by the average user at home. Adding biomass fillers (bamboo or hemp fiber, oyster shells, and yes, spent coffee grounds) makes recycling even more labor and energy intensive. From the academic paper. 4. 3D PRINTING APPROACH This section describes our preparation procedure for our spent coffee ground-based material (SCG material), our 3D printer set-up, printing parameters, and our decision process for aspects such as nozzle diameter and print speed. 4.1 Material Preparation We partnered with a local coffee shop5 to receive their SCG that were previously used to make espresso-based drinks (e.g., lattes, cappuccinos). The obtained grounds were finely ground to approximately Math 1 in diameter (visually similar in size to table salt) and initially wet. We opted to dry the SCG in direct sunlight for two days to avoid energy consumption associated with oven-drying. Once fully dried, we sifted the grounds using a basic kitchen strainer6 to remove any large clumps. After measuring their proper proportions, all of the dry powders (i.e., SCG, XG, CMC) were combined together in a single jar. The powders were then shaken together for approximately 1 min  to ensure a uniform mixture. This combination was then slowly mixed into another jar containing a proportional amount of water by mass. Once the mixture was homogeneous, the SCG material was loaded into 60 mL syringes7. Following the exact proportions in table 2 produces approximately 90 mL of the SCG material. Notably, this entire procedure can be accomplished in a standard kitchen at home with food-safe ingredients. Academic Paper can be found at: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3563657.3595983 https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/dont-throw-out-those-used-coffee-grounds-use-them-for-3d-printing-instead/ For more: Design, 3D Printing Previous Next