Meetups/Infra/2025-05-12

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Discussion of GUIX, UMAP/

Introductions[edit | edit source]

  • [name] - [background]. [goals for meetup, or interests to explore]
  • Loren --
  • -- hardened, trusted compute. Working on trusted boot process, PCR. Shipping a TCP
  • Greg -- broadly interested, have a new nix thing on the mind. Chat, FOSS chat, zulip
  • Nick -- getting started in self-hosting
  • Kevin -- finding lowest cost providers for text embedding, vector stores. Chatbots for some clients. GPU on-demand. -> fly.io
  • Chris -- designer, interested in embeddings
  • Doug -- interested in computers, hardware, & performance
  • Zacchae -- use no centralized media except phone. Self-host media, website. Found repo of guix services: matrix, prometheus, lemmy.
  • Eric -- like all things infra, focused now on mobile computing. wearable computers.
  • Elan -- life stage: solving all problems with k8s, out with docker.
  • Sylvia -- student at city college, interested in lots. First deployed website on cloudflare -- applying to internship on friday.


Topics today[edit | edit source]

  • GPU data centers
  • self-hosting -- CF / chat

Etherpad is a highly customizable open source online editor providing collaborative editing in really real-time. Riseup's pad functionality runs etherpad

  • gpu / lambda
  • wearable / mobile

https://meet.jit.si/nb-meetup-infra

Cool hacks[edit | edit source]

  • Doug, describing clustering -- and successful ...learning thanks to Jams recommendation of UMAP then HDBScan

https://decasim.ai/blog/mapping-price-zones


Hack on tools[edit | edit source]

Questions, Discussion, or Coworking[edit | edit source]

  • [Issue]

For next time[edit | edit source]

Questions[edit | edit source]

Readings & Exercises[edit | edit source]

  • Readings
  • Exercises

Join online[edit | edit source]

  • Try it yourself!
    • Join libera.chat #nb-meetup-infra

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Meetups/Infra