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On 23 Sept, join Alexander Ternar for a primer on Inclusive Design. The decisions we make when creating products and services can directly enhance or inhibit the participation of people and communities. Alex will introduce you to the vast world of Inclusive Design by exploring how understanding human diversity leads to the creation of better, more human products. This event is part of Leeds Digital Festival 2021. 🗓️ Thu 23 Sept 🕑 14:00–15:00
How is the banking sector innovating to usher in a new era of digital identity assurance? In this webinar, Martin Ingram (Product Owner – Identity and Access Management, NatWest Group) describes how banks are working together to shape standards and processes by which they can build trust in customers via digital means, and illustrates this with several use cases. He also explores how sectors across the private and public realm could work together to reduce friction for customers in proving their identity, and how this has the potential to improve inclusion.
We’re delighted and proud that Lead UX Designer Tamara Chehayeb Makarem is a finalist in the ‘Outstanding Returner Award’ category at the Women in Tech Excellence Awards 2021. These awards recognise top-performing women from across the technology space and provide inspiration for younger women looking to build a career in our industry. Several other Scott Logic consultants were long-listed for the awards in other categories in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the business in the last twelve months: Jennifer Hall, Martha King, Hannah Pretswell, Laura Warren and Ciara Gardiner. Congratulations to all and best of luck to Tamara!
On 22 Sept, James Leftley will encourage you to fail... as the best way to build resilient systems in cloud environments. James will explain how experimenting with our systems, by deliberately introducing failures, can help us better understand their behaviour. This talk is part of Leeds Digital Festival 2021. 🗓️ 22 Sep 2021 🕥 10:30–11:15
On 21 Sept, take a break from our polarised world to learn from Lead UX Designer Tamara Chehayeb Makarem how you can cultivate empathy. If you're interested in building empathy skills within your team or workplace, join this session to learn from Tamara about different types of empathy, the ways it can empower us and its practical application in our day-to-day jobs. 🗓️ Tue 21 Sep 🕙 10:00-10:45
Chris Price rounds off his mini-series on the OpenAI API beta by looking at few-shot learning and fine-tuning. With a little writing help from the tool, Chris concludes that it's important to remember that AI is a tool and not a silver bullet, so it's good to understand how it works and what its limitations are.
In the second post in his three-part mini-series on trying out the OpenAI API beta, Chris Price shares what he's learnt about the logprobs and the 'creativity' controls.
We're proud to be a partner of Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation, sponsoring the Autumn session of this initiative. Our support will be providing places on the programme for five delegates, and Scott Logic's Catriona Koris—a member of the EWLDT panel—will be involved in selecting and supporting the new cohort of future leaders. The programme is delivered by Empowering-You and run in association with the Scottish Digital Academy, The Scottish Government and ScotlandIS.
In the first of a three-part mini-series, Solutions Architect Chris Price puts the OpenAI API beta through its paces and shares what he learns along the way. In this post, he covers the basics of tokens, the model and prompt design.
Cloud computing already gives software applications the ability to scale up on demand, so why have cloud providers introduced High-Performance Computing (HPC) components into their clouds? In this post, Jevon Beckles explains HPC in a non-cloud context before exploring when it is beneficial to use HPC in the cloud, and the key considerations that you need to factor in.
