F0RTHSP4CE

📰 Paper reading club: stoicism and formal methods

We come together to discuss advances in computer science, ground them down to applications, and see where to the wind is blowing. Read the papers at your own time and come discuss them with us. The talks will be given in English, discussion in En/Ru.

1. A Comparative Analysis of Stoicism and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

We discuss how stoicism and logotherapy influenced modern CBT therapy. Quote:

Stoicism has three main tenets on which CBT was built and that is Logic, Acceptance and Control. It was discovered that despite the inuence of the stoics in curtailing human disorder, there is an incompatibility between a philosophy which is for life, and a therapy which is for a particular disorder.

2. An overview of formal methods (talk)

Virtually every Software Developer heard about Formal Verification, but not that many actually did it. That's why not everyone has a good idea what it is, what it does, what sorts there are, who and where apply it, and why. I'll try to paint an overall picture of the field without digging into too much detail. Hopefully enough to dismiss common misconceptions and provide waymarks for further exploration.

⏱ 12:00-14:30 Saturday, 10 February
📍 F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St, 18
💰 free/donation
🗣 @munrocket, @gabrielfallen (lang: 🇬🇧)
👮 @cad215
💬 event chat
🎥 recordings

🙉 VFX for Game Development using Unreal Engine 5
⏱ 7 (Wed) February, 20:00
📍 F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St, 18, basement

Discover the art of VFX in game development with our Unreal Engine 5 workshop! Learn to create your own effects, understand materials, explore the Niagara system basics, and grasp VFX optimization techniques.

Расскажем как сделать свой собственный эффект в Unreal Engine 5 с нуля! Объясним как работают материалы, шаг за шагом пройдёмся по базовым штукам в системе Niagara, немного расскажем про оптимизацию и принципы работы VFX-художника.

Для участия желательно иметь ноутбук с предустановленным Unreal Engine 5. Качается на официальном сайте:
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/download

Lecturer: Diana, VFX artist & Artem, techartist
Host: @crow_fff
Level: Intermediate
Language: RU
Entrance: free/donation

Open door day!

⏱ 19:00 PM Thursday, 1 February
📍 F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St 18 / Janashia

You can learn about F0rthsp4ce and see what’s going on with us, chat with other residents and guests offline, use space resources like workbench and soldering table. On this day you can freely work on your project or join a hackspace project.

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Вы можете прийти и посмотреть на пространство вживую, пообщаться с резидентами и другими гостями, узнать, чем живет хакспейс. Также в этот день можно поработать в хакспейсе над своими проектами или присоединиться к одному из проектов хакспейса!

Language: RU/EN
Entrance: free/donation
Host: @coreglitch

upd: Sorry, the event will be postponed due to the lecturers getting sick. The exact date will be announced later this week.

🙉 VFX for Game Development using Unreal Engine 5
⏱ 31 (Wed) January, 20:00 postponed
📍 F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St, 18, basement

Discover the art of VFX in game development with our Unreal Engine 5 workshop! Learn to create your own effects, understand materials, explore the Niagara system basics, and grasp VFX optimization techniques.

Расскажем как сделать свой собственный эффект в Unreal Engine 5 с нуля! Объясним как работают материалы, шаг за шагом пройдёмся по базовым штукам в системе Niagara, немного расскажем про оптимизацию и принципы работы VFX-художника.

Lecturer: Diana, VFX artist & Artem, techartist
Host: @crow_fff
Level: Intermediate
Language: RU
Entrance: free/donation

Music theory #22: Brett G. Clement, "Scale Systems and Large-Scale Form in the Music of Yes"

⏱ 19:00 PM Friday, 2 February
📍 F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St 18 / Janashia, the basement

We continue our course on music theory (in Russian), but I'm very happy to give you a free private demo of my nascent interactive book in English at any time.

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В 2023 году Брэтт Клемент выпустил книгу "Rock Tonality Amplified" с вдохновляющим меня оглавлением. Перед тем, как подступиться к ней, я хочу прочитать одну его статью.

Статья про прогрессив-рок - про композиции группы Yes. Кажется, автор применяет transformational theory для объяснения, как внутри трэка меняются гаммы (scales). У меня есть умеренный скептицизм к transformational theory, так что наша задача - понять, нам втюхивают эзотерику или нет.

Перед лекцией советую послушать композиции, которые упомянуты справа в Examples - особенно "And You and I" и "Roundabout". Проще разбирать то, что уже в вас сидит.

Language: RU
Entrance: free
Host: @vitalypavlenko (DM to come)

🙉 Modular Synths Workshop. Intro to VCV Rack
⏱ 27 (Sat) January, 17:00
📍 F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St, 18, basement

In this workshop you'll learn the basics of sound synthesis applicable to any synthesizer. We'll stick to VCV Rack, an open source modular synth engine which is perfect for learning the fundamentals. Bring your laptop with headphones if you prefer to start doing something immediately, but it's optional.

Host: @crow_fff
Level: Beginner friendly
Language: EN/RU
Entrance: free/donation

🌊 Web Security Workshop (SQL Injection)
⏱ 25 (Th) January, 19:30, Today
📍 F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St, 18, basement

At this event we'll finish our SQL Injection journey based on PortSwigger Web Academy tasks [link]. Feel free to join us to figure out how those injections works. We still have to complete Blind SQL Injection tasks.

You should have an account at Portswigger;
BurpSuite should be installed and proxy configured;
First half of SQL Injection Module is solved.

Host: @curiv
Level: Beginner friendly
Language: RU/EN
Entrance: free/donation

Watching a documentary. Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks With Geeks

⏱ 21:00 PM Wednesday (today), 24 January
📍 F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St 18 / Janashia, the basement

Four interns are brought into Fog Creek Software’s Manhattan office and given 12 weeks to design, develop, debug and ship a computer program that will, among other things, help millions of frustrated users fix their relatives computers via the internet.

2005 documentary featuring co-founders of StackOverflow, Reddit, Trello and Y Combinator

Language: EN ± auto-generated subs (movie), EN/RU (chatting)
Entrance: free
Host: @vitalypavlenko (DM to come)

📰 Paper reading club: mixture of experts doing science

We come together to discuss advances in computer science, ground them down to applications, and see where to the wind is blowing. Read the papers at your own time and come discuss them with us. The talks will be given in English, discussion in En/Ru.

1. Empirical support and criticism of ACT, part 2

ACT is a therapy identified by the American Psychological Association as an empirically supported treatment for depression, anxiety, and OCD.

But how much empirically supported? We examine classical results and recent critiques. Please check part 1 recording if you weren't there.

2. Mixtral Of Experts

Making your transformer smarter without increasing the number of (active) parameters with Sparse MoE.

Prerequisites: DL101. We may recall transformers extremely briefly.

⏱ 12:00-14:30 Saturday, 27 January
📍 F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St, 18
💰 free/donation
🗣 @cad215, @artempt239 (lang: 🇬🇧)
👮 @cad215
💬 event chat
🎥 recordings

Music theory #21: interactive course, office hours

⏱ 19:00 PM Friday, 26 January
📍 F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St 18 / Janashia, the basement

No lecture this time. Bring your laptop and study Western popular harmony on your own pace using our interactive course rawl.rocks. Or propose any other time this week for a 1:1 demo - I'm very happy to show you the course that I'm working on.

Language: RU/EN
Entrance: free
Host: @vitalypavlenko (DM to come)

🌊 Web Security Workshop (SQL Injection)
⏱ 18 (Th) January, 19:30, Today
📍 F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St, 18, basement

We will start our SQL Injection journey based on PortSwigger Web Academy tasks [link]. Feel free to join us to figure out how those injections works.

You should have an account at Portswigger;
BurpSuite should be installed and proxy configured.


Host: @curiv
Level: Beginner friendly
Language: RU/EN
Entrance: free/donation

📰 Paper reading club: ACT to secure microservices

We come together to discuss advances in computer science, ground them down to applications, and see where to the wind is blowing. Read the papers at your own time and come discuss them with us. The talks will be given in English, discussion in En/Ru.

1. Empirical support and criticism of ACT

ACT is a therapy identified by the American Psychological Association as an empirically supported treatment for depression, anxiety, and OCD.

But how much empirically supported? We examine classical results and recent critiques.

2. Microservices security redux

We'll cover (reading list):
* access control methods (DAC, MAC, RBAC, ABAC)
* best practices of container security (JWT, mTLS, fine grained access control)
* security architectures for flexible authorization
* generalize ABAC to RiskBAC

⏱ 12:00-14:30 Saturday, 20 January
📍 F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St, 18
💰 free/donation
🗣 @cad215, @curiv (lang: 🇬🇧)
👮 @cad215
💬 event chat
🎥 recordings

Open door day!

⏱ 19:00 PM Wednesday, 17 January
📍 F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St 18 / Janashia

You can learn about F0rthsp4ce and see what’s going on with us, chat with other residents and guests offline, use space resources like workbench and soldering table. On this day you can freely work on your project or join a hackspace project.
Also at 21:30 we will watch Mimino movie

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Вы можете прийти и посмотреть на пространство вживую, пообщаться с резидентами и другими гостями, узнать, чем живет хакспейс. Также в этот день можно поработать в хакспейсе над своими проектами или присоединиться к одному из проектов хакспейса!
В 21:30 будем смотреть Мимино.

Language: RU/EN
Entrance: free/donation
Host: @dettlaff_zero

Music theory #20: Fazıl Say: Istanbul Symphony

⏱ 19:00 PM Friday, 19 January
📍 F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St 18 / Janashia, the basement

We'll continue our course on music theory (in Russian)

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Это будет чилловая встреча, без зауми. Мы послушаем сочиненную около 2012 года симфонию современного композитора и пианиста Фазыла Сая, в которой он поженил турецкую народную музыку с западным оркестром. Параллельно мы посмотрим его видеорассказы о том, что и как он сочинил в отдельных частях.

Ноутбуки в этот раз не понадобятся.

Language: RU
Entrance: free
Host: @vitalypavlenko (чиркните в лс если хотите прийти)

📰 Paper reading club: genetic censorship circumvention, CPU backdoors

We come together to discuss advances in computer science, ground them down to applications, and see where to the wind is blowing. Read the papers at your own time and come discuss them with us. The talks will be given in English, discussion in En/Ru.

1. Automatic Censorship Evasion

Internet censorship becomes ever more advanced. Geneva is an approach for automatically discovering censorship evasion strategies. Let's learn how it works!

2. Backdoors in VIA x86 CPUs

We find internal control registers can enable the user to bypass security mechanisms, e.g., allowing ring 0 access at ring 3 in some common commercial VIA CPUs. At the seminar, we'll discuss how deep we need to dig into CPU to find a hidden backdoor/bug and which instruments we have for this. Paper, talk.

⏱ 18:00-21:00 Saturday, 13 January
📍 F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St, 18
💰 free/donation
🗣 @Xallt, @ioterw (🇬🇧)
👮 @cad215
💬 event chat
🎥 recordings

Hello, dear community!
We have important news for everyone who want to come visit us.
👐 First of all, we schedule the Open Day every week! You can learn about F0rthsp4ce and see what’s going on with us, chat with other residents and guests offline, use space resources like workbench and soldering table. On this day you can freely work on your project or join a hackspace project.
🗓 You also can visit all of our events: join telegram channel to get the announcements.
💬 And last but not least: If you wish to visit us at times when there are no events taking place, we kindly ask you to arrange your visit with a resident, who will guide you in the space. You can ask for visit in special topic, if there is anyone ready to meet you.

Next open day will be today, 11 jan, from 18:00 to 22:00

Привет, сообщество!
Если вы давно хотели прийти, но никак не находили времени — этот пост для вас!
А может у вас есть проект, который вы хотели бы поделать в хакспейсе — у нас есть важные новости!
👐 Мы планируем проводить День Открытых Дверей каждую неделю. Вы можете прийти и посмотреть на пространство вживую, пообщаться с резидентами и другими гостями, узнать, чем живет хакспейс. Также в этот день можно поработать в хакспейсе над своими проектами или присоединиться к одному из проектов хакспейса!
🗓 Также, напоминаю что у нас проходит много мероприятий, свободных к посещению. Подпишитесь на телеграм канал, чтобы быть в курсе анонсов!
💬 Наконец, важное напоминание: когда в хакспейсе не проходят мероприятия, также можно прийти, но договорившись с кем-то из резидентов. Спросите в специальном топике в нашем чате, может ли кто-то вас встретить.

День открытых дверей уже сегодня, 11 января, с 18:00 до 22:00.

Host: @coreglitch
📍 F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St, 18
Language: RU/EN
Entrance: free/donation

🌊 Web Security Workshop
⏱ 11 (Th) January, 19:30
📍 F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St, 18, basement

Getting familiar with API security using OWASP crAPI.

BurpSuite should be installed and proxy configured.


Host: @curiv
Level: Beginner friendly
Language: RU/EN
Entrance: free/donation

Introduction to internals of Git version control system by example

@alurm will be demonstrating internals of Git.

Using a sample repository, we'll take a close look at the contents of .git folder.

We'll talk about hash trees in Git, content addressability in Git, primary objects types (trees, blobs, commits), branches, index file and more.

Questions are very welcome during the whole event.

📍 Place: F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St, 18
🗣 Speaker: @alurm
👮 Host: @klntsky
🕔 Time: January 10, 21:30 (Wednesday)
⏳ Length: an hour and a half
👅 Language: Russian or English

Music theory #19: Bulgarian Fake Book

⏱ 19:00 PM Friday, 12 January
📍 F0RTHSP4CE, Khorava St 18 / Janashia, the basement

We'll continue our course on music theory (in Russian)

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Мы будем слушать болгарские народные песни из Bulgarian Fake Book, будем обсуждать их структуру и попробуем постепенно построить нашу модель отличий болгарской (и вообще балканской) народной музыки от усреднённой западной традиции. Специальные гости: фригийский лад, фригийский доминантный лад, 7/8, 11/16, 13/16.

Ноутбуки в этот раз не понадобятся.

Language: RU
Entrance: free
Host: @vitalypavlenko (чиркните в лс если хотите прийти)