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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.
We're proud to be a sponsor of this year's Leeds Digital Festival (20 Sep–1 Oct) and excited to be running five events, including our first in-person event since the start of the pandemic. Find out more about our events here and book your place.
On Weds 29 Sep, we're holding the inaugural event of Open Source Leeds, a new meetup group dedicated to promoting the use of open source in large enterprises, and we have three fantastic speakers lined up: • Sukhvinder Panesar, Chief Engineer, Lloyds Banking Group, on 'Open Source Contribution in Banking' • Colin Eberhardt, CTO, Scott Logic, on 'Open Source Sustainability and our Corporate Social Responsibility' • James Robertson, Software Engineer, Mixcloud, on 'Building open source productivity tools' We'll be running this as a hybrid event as part of Leeds Digital Festival, so if you can't attend in person, you can register instead to watch the live stream. Register to attend in person: https://www.meetup.com/Open-Source-Leeds/events/279586280/ Register to watch the live stream: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-source-leeds-tickets-167449358539 We organise Open Source Leeds in partnership with FINOS, along with three other groups: Open Source Edinburgh; Open Source Bristol; and Open Source London.
Tamara Chehayeb Makarem on UX Migration Strategy for Legacy Applications: "In this article, I focus on the migration strategy for legacy applications from a UX perspective and highlight the elements that businesses should think about."
Scott Logic has been inducted into the Chancellor’s Circle of Durham University in recognition of our contribution to the establishment of the Durham Inspired Computer Science Scholarship, and in recognition of our named Scott Logic Lecture Theatre in the university’s new Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences Building. We have a long history of working in partnership with Durham University as part of our commitment to supporting the skills pipeline in the North East, aiming to attract and retain the best tech talent in the area.
