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38th Chaos Communication Congress

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Re: 38th Chaos Communication Congress

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Post by TheAceOfHearts »

What talks are people most interested in?

It looks like Joscha Bach [0] is continuing his "From Computation to Consciousness" series. I've enjoyed some of his older talks so I'll probably check out this new entry as well.

A few of the science talks related to biology also seem really interesting, although it reminds me of how much I'm lacking in understanding and knowledge of the topic. It looks like there's a big focus on mixing generative AI with biology research, and I don't know enough to disambiguate whether there truly innovative work happening or if this is an attempt to ride the AI hype cycle. Does anyone here have experience and knowledge on the topic to suggest whether the talks are worth checking out?

[0] https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2024/fahrplan/talk/3...

Re: 38th Chaos Communication Congress

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Post by ElectRabbit »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #4

What talks are people most interested in? It looks like Joscha Bach [0] is continuing his "From Computation to Consciousness" series. I've enjoyed some of his older talks so I'll probably check out this new entry as well. A few of the science talks related to biology also seem really interesting, although it reminds me of how much I'm lacking in understanding and knowledge of the topic. It looks like there's a big fo…

For me it's all the embedded and crypto stuff.

Re: 38th Chaos Communication Congress

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Post by zhouzhao »

sevg wrote: post #6
Zolomon wrote: post #5

The ticketing system was horrible, it really was not fair this year around.

Out of curiosity, what was horrible and unfair about it? (Genuine question, I don’t know anything about how it was done.)

Also curios, since I got 3 trickets for me and friends. It's as always, go somewhere with a good ping, refresh at the specific time. Worked in every sale..

Re: 38th Chaos Communication Congress

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Post by Y_Y »

I love watching CCC every years though I rarely catch it live. Since we have a couple of days to wait for this year's talk, I'll ask. Does it bother anyone else that some talks are in German, or does it bother anyone else that they find themselves bothered that the talks are in German?

I love all languages great and small, natural and formal and so I'm conflicted on subjects like this. I find young German speakers to be generally both good at English and pragmatic about choice of language and I'm glad to see that they haven't ceded the ground entirely.

On the other hand you might consider a language as a network whose utility grows with number of nodes. Or you believe in the inevitability of Gresham's Law driving out good currency with bad. I have sympathy for this point, and in an emergency in a mixed nationality group would certainly shout "fire" in English first.

As an example I'll be interested to watch this one about data protection for age verification: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2024/fahrplan/talk/S... but feel it would be a shame if the reach was limited by the choice of language. AFAIR they don't do multilingual restreams (automated or otherwise) like some other online events.

(Übrigens kann ich doch Deutsch, trotzdem mein Standpunkt bleibt.)

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