Our second installment of the much-loved lecture slide karaoke! But this time with PhysSoc! We promise there is no actual singing (unless you want to).
In lecture slide karaoke, should you wish to present, you will be given a lecture slide deck you have never seen and you will be presenting it as if you are the lecturer!
If you aren’t comfortable to present, feel free to ask the “lecturer” really annoying questions!
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Our second speaker event of the year! 3rd year student & friend of the FP lab, Sam Toth, will be giving a talk about how to make your own proof engine!
Our second annual Scratchathon (trademark pending). We will be running a mini hackathon where you can compete in pairs or alone to create something halloween themed in scratch! The winner gets a special discord role and bragging rights.
Our biggest event of the year! HackNotts is our annual hackathon hosted in the computer science building, and this year we are putting on our biggest one yet - a medieval fantasy themed 25 hours with over £1,000 in prizes to be won!
Make sure to pick up your free ticket from our website!
Our first speaker event of the year! We will be joined by Oliver Rosten who is going to give a quick talk on C++ followed by a career Q&A focusing mainly on graduate careers - but also internships! This will be last career event of the year, so do make sure to come along!
A career talk focusing on CS-related internships and jobs, including talks from students who have completed summer internships, year in industry placements, and are working in industry on graduate schemes.
We will be sharing advice on applications, interviews, and telling you a bit more about what the jobs are like!
Want to start attending hackathons? Join our Trips & Hackathons secretary, Oli, and Hackathon veteran, Adrian, to learn more about hackathons, hardware, and projects.
Whenever you have the misfortune of getting dragged into a debate about which language is the best, you will always hear that Rust is the best because of it’s package manager, memory safety, etc. But why is that, I’ve always been wanting to experience it myself? In this workshop, we will go over an introduction to Rust and it’s features for those who want to get involved in this modern and admired programming language.
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Have you ever used ChatGPT, Claude, or DeepSeek and wondered how they worked? In this talk we will be going on a detailed deep dive of the structure of Generative Pre-trained Transformer Models and how they work, as well as how to run them locally on your computer for personal use, or even Hacks! We’ll also investigate some of the recent developments of these models, and what the whole deekseek drama was about.
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