Title: Lightning Talks
Time: 9 Nov 2023 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Place: Online Zoom meeting only; see description
Intro to AI Text Generation
The text generation API is backed by a large-scale unsupervised language model that can generate paragraphs of text. This is a transformer-based LLM, which intakes a sentence or partial sentence and predicts subsequent text from that input.
— Dan Schlesinger
Quick-Access Calculator, Tool, and Database Web Sites
A quick tour through online tools that solve problems quickly, with no auto-play videos, no click-bait headlines, and no account logins. Negotiate a meeting in 2 or 3 time zones; find a hiking route to a point of interest; the clearest weather forecast tool; calculate geometry, physics, and unit conversion problems; and more.
— Brendan Kidwell
Funky Digital Camera Stocking Stuffers for the Holidays
A change of pace: retro, inexpensive, and innovative funky cameras to make photography fun … again!
— Hank Kee
At least half an hour before the meeting, please email David Metzger ( dbmetzger@yahoo.com ) and Brendan Kidwell ( brendan@glump.net ) to request joining the NYACC meeting. One of them will send you instructions to join our Zoom meeting from desktop computer, laptop, mobile device, or from a phone call. PLEASE REMEMBER TO MUTE YOUR MICROPHONE WHEN YOU ARE NOT SPEAKING.
Don't forget we also have a new BBS and chat room you can use to connect with NYACC members any time, outside of our meetings:
BBS: https://nyacctalk.glump.net/
Chat room: https://webchat.freenode.net/#nyacc
Contact Brendan Kidwell ( brendan@glump.net ) if you have any trouble using the BBS or chat room.
:: ABOUT NYACC ::
http://nyacc.org/
calendar: https://gettogether.community/new-york-amateur-computer-club/
The New York Amateur Computer Club was established in March 1975 with the mission to further education in diverse areas of personal computing. The presentations at monthly meetings cover various platform computing systems and range from in-depth technical subjects to general overviews with broad appeal.
General meetings are always held on the second Thursday of each month and start promptly at 7 PM with announcements followed by a period of Questions and Answers called Random Access in which members and visitors are encouraged to ask technical questions or ask for advice on purchasing or using software, hardware, and related issues. There is a short break before the main presentation to enable attendees to meet and greet each other and to buttonhole people to get more detailed answers to specific questions. As an alternate to the main meeting, if a few people are interested, a new- or prospective-user group meeting is held to assist beginners.
The general meetings are open without charge to the public. Please consider becoming a member for $20 per year or renewing your membership, to help cover our operating costs. See instructions at nyacc.org .