Hey Ruby fans! Thank you to all who came out to our social last month at Stone Brewing. It was a great time! For August, we're back to our regularly scheduled programming with another Meetup this Thursday, 7:00pm, at LEARN Academy downtown (704 J Street). Metered parking downtown is free after 6pm or 8pm, depending on the area, so double-check the meter before you leave without paying. There are also several paid parking lots nearby, if you so choose.
RSVP for the Meetup here: https://www.meetup.com/sdruby/events/glmlzmyxlbdb/ FEATURED TALK FOR AUGUST: Marco Carmosino - "When Your Chatbot is Sexist: Correcting Prejudiced AI" As well as making it possible to order a pizza from Alexa or know what famous painting you most resemble, machine learning is also becoming involved in decision making about jobs, loans, medical diagnoses, and parole. These systems exhibit the same prejudices humans do, leading to unfair decisions. Marco Carmosino will lead us through ongoing research about how to discover and remove these biases in automated decision-making systems. This talk aims to give developers an awareness of the issue and some concrete tests for bias to add to their deployments of AI. LIGHTNING TALKS: We're always open for people to share lightning talks. Feel free to sign up here: http://bit.ly/1Nsq9g8 (Google Form). Lightning talks are 5 minutes and a great chance to dip your toes in if you've always wanted to talk at SDRuby, but haven't had the chance to yet. RAFFLE We'll be giving away a few ebooks, software licenses, etc, using our super fun Rafflr! AFTER PARTY After the meeting, we'll head out for a round or two of drinks at Half Door Brewing Company! .... DIRECTIONS Meetings are held at LEARN Academy downtown (704 J Street), at 7:00pm, on the first Thursday of the month. Metered parking downtown is free after 6pm or 8pm, depending on the area, so double-check the meter before you leave without paying. There are also several paid parking lots nearby, if you so choose. SPONSOR OR SPEAK AT THE NEXT MEETING Wanna talk at our next meeting? Have a topic you want someone else to talk about? Interested in sponsoring? Email me at [email protected], and we'll get you on the books. -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
