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- Liv Vova | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Liv Vova Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #177 2 September 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Eamon Foreman | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Eamon Foreman Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs SKRONK #6 23 August 2016 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Meet Mechanismo - Engaging and Playful Robots
Gravesend Innovation Showcase 2024 events, locations, talks, speakers and times. < Back Meet Mechanismo - Engaging and Playful Robots Start Time 11:00 Running Time All Day Location 1-2, 14, 17 Popping Up Event Type Demonstration About the Event Introduction The Mechanismo team will be demonstrating their troupe of joyful robots that incorporate advanced sensing technology, four-wheel drive, and expressive movements. Come take one of the robots for a remote-controlled test drive, learn about what it takes to build a bot, and discover the surprises that emerge when humans and robots play together. More on the event lead Building on a lifetime of electronics engineering and digital fabrication, Andrew Payne founded Mechanismo in 2017 and has acted as Director ever since. He previously founded HexRay, a company specialis ing in CAD/CAM software with thousands of users worldwide. He is an accomplished artist and engineer, often exploring the themes of sustainability, biology and optimistic futures in his work. Nicky Cure is Mechanismo's Artistic Director. As an experienced creative practitioner with a background in arts education, Nicky employs "process-hacking" as a way to develop new, sustainable, and interdisciplinary methods and projects. She is an advocate for playful learning, and outside her work with Mechanismo, she is a musician and filmmaker. Event Information This event is Free All ages This event is ideal for tech enthusiasts, robotics hobbyists, families, educators, and anyone interested in playful, hands-on experiences with robots. It appeals to those curious about robotics, digital fabrication, and creative engineering, as well as those keen to see the intersection of art and technology in a fun, interactive setting. ___ Even more information ___ See the Crawly Bots dashing around the Fourth Portal in January 2024 Previous Next
- Sid Phipps | FourthPortal
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
- A Bold New Plan For Preserving Online Privacy And Security | FourthPortal
< 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
- Phil Durrant | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Phil Durrant Electric Mandolin Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs Boat-Ting Dec22 5 December 2022 Boat-Ting Dec 2022 http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Nodevember
Gravesend Innovation Showcase 2024 events, locations, talks, speakers and times. < Back Nodevember Start Time 1 November Running Time 1 Month Location Across Town Centre Event Type Participation About the Event Introduction Nodevember is a global challenge to learn, share, and connect through procedural programming with tools like Blender. Running throughout November as part of the Innovation Showcase. The prompts were released on Friday, 01 November 2024 The first two events will be at the Fourth Portal, Royal Pier Road, Gravesend, DA12 2BD Friday, 1st November from 6:30 until we are bored or cold Sunday 3rd November from 3pm until we are bored or cold :) We will then decide other potential locations... " More on the event lead The event will be led, at the beginning at least, by local Gravesend programmer Oli Donald. He intends to respond to the prompts but this year in a public space and invites anyone else, even vaguely interested to join him. Event Information These events are free and come and go as you please. We intend to host this every other day in different locations around Gravesend. You may need a computer of some type if you wish to participate, but where possible Fourth Portal will have some Macs available. No understanding of coding is required. You are welcome to join in, ask questions or just watch. There is no formal training taking place, this is just a fun and enjoyable event - although you will probably learn loads! We will not know the prompts either until the 1st November and then will seek to find matching locations - might be fun! ___ Even more information ___ The official prompt list was released on the 1st November 2024. Nodevember is all about procedural awesomeness! Nodevember is a yearly challenge during the month of November, to improve and show off your procedural skills. Each year we release a list of prompts to inspire your node-based creations throughout the month. Anything procedural is welcome. If you can call it nodes, you can call it Nodevember!" The prompt list from 2023 is below. To learn more see https://nodevember.io/#participate This event is being updated Previous Next
- Jess Bull Anderson | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Jess Bull Anderson Trombone Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs London Improvisers Orchestra #39 28 September 2025 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Myco Phoonk | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Myco Phoonk Words, Music & Myco Sounds Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs ImproVox #03 30 September 2024 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Michael Zbyszynski | FourthPortal
All Improv Perfomers All Improv Gigs Michael Zbyszynski Flute, Bass Clarinet Performer Bio (Max 1000 characters) London and South East improv gigs ImproVox #02 30 August 2024 ImproVox #04 28 October 2024 Performer notes, message or style description http://Website or social media email or phone number
- Derek Mason | FourthPortal
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
- What is TinyML? | FourthPortal
< 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


