# Meeting minutes
Started introduction at 3:20 PM
We started 20 Min's late and we allowed people to join as much as possible.
Again we have around 30+ people. Excellent meetup IMO.
## Apache Iceberg
Started at 3:35
Guru gave an excellent talk on Apache Iceberg.
Though I am new to this domain of big data, I am able to follow his talk.
Highlights
- Data warehouse system
- Data Lake
- Centralized system to hold large data
- Read the columns when we need to.
Evolution
- Hadoop
- Hive
Problem with above
- Object base storage
- No versioning
- No concurrent read/write
Apache Iceberg
- Pruning
- Select or read data based on partition
- In the demo for each partition a row will be created
## Embodied Intelligence: Teaching Robots to Perceive and Act
By Prabakaran
I thought he was going to talk more generically. But he went on to show how
he built
his follower arm using 3D print. Very easy to understand what he was trying
to do.
He created a good mental model to understand how robots are trained.
How complex it is. Thanks to Prabakaran for bringing my curiosity back to
Embedded systems.
Start time: 4:00 PM
- Models can see and hear
- vision language models
- Cake analogy by Yann LeCun
- JEPA
- Open VLA
- Game engine act as a simulator for real world training
- Moravec's Paradox
- google deep mind
- To get started
- LeRobot
- He made a follower arm and he is making a leader arm to train the
follower.
# Networking tea break
## Develop cross-platform Applications using Kivy
By Praveen
He started with Landscape of GUI development
- wxPython he used to create his own application
- QT For python PyQT
- License
- Flutter
- Kotlin
- GTK
- raylib
- codot
- BeeWare
He spoke about how kivy different from other GUI tools.
- Kivy
- Single code for desktop and mobile
- Kivy has demo code that we can verify installation as well as
all the features in the Kivy
- He built a ping pong game and used an android emulator for playing the
game as a mobile application.
## Lightning talk
### First misbehave by AI
Abhishek spoke about first AI bot attack
- Matplot lib contributor.
- Rejected pull request because of bot.
- Bot assassinate the character.
- Open Claw is the tech behind.
- Personality stored as soul.md
### Mock
Rengaraj spoke about Mock, It can be used as an input for a leader robot.
- We can use mock to fake serial port devices.
- Similar way Can we fake servomotor feedback like servo mock.
- mock is used to avoid dependencies when testing an embedded product
- He shared his assumption to Prabakaran.
- Idea is to Mock the leader arm
### Oauth and OIDC
Arockiyaraj gave talk on Oauth versus OIDC.
OIDC is Oauth and Identification verification of the user.
### MSME EDII Entrepreneurship Development and Innovation Institute
Speaker: Manikandan
This talk is a surprise talk, It was really helpful for many.
Thanks to Manikandan coming forward to spread the awareness.
Notes from his talk about startup sponsor by TN Government
- For Idea MSME department of Tamilnadu is giving 3 lakhs
- to scale the idea in to product 7 lakhs grant is given
- Startup TN give 10 lakhs
Government of tamilnadu is providing
- 3D printing service for nominal cost
Please contact
- 7358214758 Manikandan program officer.
### Abuse of AI
Speaker: Vijaykumar
We are abusing AI by asking everything without thinking our self.
He defined a word for this called AI Mind reader syndrome.
### Credits
Thanks to
- Host:
- Vijaykumar
- Time Keeper:
- Vigneshwaran
- Photographers:
- I missed the volunteer name thanks to all who took
photos
- Speakers:
- Guru
- Prabakaran
- Praveen
- Venue:
- Zilogic Systems Pvt Ltd
- Refreshment sponsors:
1. Praveen
2. Rengaraj
3. Prabhakaran
4. Vigneshwaran
5. Kaushik
6. Guru
7. Abhishek
Regards
Rengaraj
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