Hack and Tell 2017-07-18

Porting Hungarian text adventure from the 80s to Android

• found game logic in basic
• porting logic to inform5
• no good way to run inform5 with accented characters, too slow
• convert the infrom5 byte codes to jvm byte codes to speed it up

NUS-MIT Analytics Datathon

• access data through SQL
• likelyhood patient would die in ICU
• sepsis affects the mortality rate

100 Days of data visualization

• by Hannah Yan Han
• drink preference around the world
• migrants who go missing
• characters in simpsons
• discipline + momentum

OK Google, Turn on my AC

• Use “Actions on Google” to build apps
• similar to building a chatbot
• use api.ai to process the voice command
• api.ai uses a webhook to notify the result
• webhook goes to RPi that is online

Historical revisionism

• by V
• working on a git library
• git has nice internal model, despite the poor cli
• preparing a git internals workshop by making a git repo
  • the commit message is the instructions
  • checkout different commits to move through the workshop