REFACTR.TECH 2019
2019-06-05..2019-06-07
Atlanta, United States
[REFACTR.TECH 2019, REFACTR.TECH 2021, REFACTR.TECH 2022, REFACTR.TECH 2023]
who it's for
IoT developers, cloud engineers, machine learning engineers, data engineers, embedded systems engineers, AR developers
topics
Azure Functions webhooks; Twilio voice and SMS; OpenAPS closed loop systems; Dexcom CGM and Medtronic pump hacks; Augmented Images with Unity and ARCore; Nearley parser language design; Inception gradient ascent and DeepDream; GANs for image generation; Qiskit and quantum circuit demo; Blockchain for IoT traceability; Custom Vision to Azure IoT Edge deployment; Kinesis with Spark Structured Streaming on Databricks
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| IoT for the Introvert | Chloe Condon | 29m |
A tiny Flic button triggers an Azure Functions webhook that uses the Twilio voice API and SMS to place a believable call or send an SOS text; calls play an MP3… | ||
| Solving diabetes in 2019 with an Open Source Artificial Pancreas | Scott Hanselman | 48m |
Claim: a 24/7 open source artificial pancreas assembled from off‑the‑shelf parts actually runs and keeps glucose mostly in range. Hardware: Dexcom CGM… | ||
| Learning From Machines | Ashi Krishnan | 37m |
Shows how convolutional nets (Inception) reveal layerwise features by running gradient ascent on Inception to produce DeepDream visuals — iterative scaling… | ||
| The "R" in AR means data and Augmented Images makes it happen | Noble Ackerson | 38m |
Shows how to turn a photo into a reliable AR trigger using Augmented Images in unity + ARCore: add up to 1,000 PNG/JPEG targets into a precompiled database… | ||
| How to Make a Programming Language | Toby Ho | 45m |
Shows how to build a tiny language using the Nearley parser generator to produce an AST, then transpiles to JavaScript as the execution target. Grammar… | ||
| Quantum Computing Demystified | Sangeeta Nori | 42m |
Quick tour of what works and what is hype: small quantum machines exist and are cloud‑accessible so you can run a Hello World on a quantum computer, IBM… | ||
| Blockchain Imaginarium | Angeleen Wilson | 27m |
Argues that combining blockchain, IoT and AI turns messy sensor data into auditable records and actionable suggestions: examples include medical records stored… | ||
| Intersection of Awesome: Building AI enabled IoT solutions powered by the cloud | Tara Walker | 43m |
Trains a classifier for a physical gauge (green/yellow/red) using Custom Vision, exports a compressed Qualcomm-compatible model, stores it in Azure Storage and… | ||
| How Big Data is Powering the Internet of Things (IoT) Revolution | Aida Martinez | 43m |
Claims that Big Data pipelines make IoT analytics practical by combining batch and real-time layers; demo builds a Python faker producer, sends simulated… | ||
| Getting started with AI for free | Dan Barker | 43m |
Shows practical, runnable steps: uses Google Colab to run TextBlob and spaCy (installs, preprocessing, n‑grams), loads 25 Supreme Court files from a bundled… | ||
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