Happy Saturday, everyone! Here on Global Nerdy, Saturday means that it’s time for another “picdump” — the weekly assortment of amusing or interesting pictures, comics, and memes I found over the past week. Share and enjoy!
Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, September 1 through Sunday, September 7!
This list includes both in-person and online events. Note that each item in the list includes:
✅ When the event will take place
✅ What the event is
✅ Where the event will take place
✅ Who is holding the event
Thursday at at 6:00 p.m. at Embarc Collective (Tampa): Back to the Future of Work is a panel discussion about a challenging topic that’s becoming increasingly relevant in the age of AI: does it make sense to pay by the hour for knowledge work, and are there better ways to put a value on it?
The low admission price of $10.04 gets you into the event, plus breakfast-for-dinner and a breakfast cocktail (bloody mary or mimosa), and puts you in the room with some interesting ideas and interesting people!
Find out more and register here.
| Event name and location | Group | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Geeks Get Fit Meeting Eagle Lake Park |
Gen Geek | 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT |
| Sunday Gaming Tampa Bay Bridge Center |
Tampa Gaming Guild | 1:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT |
| Star Trek RPG – The Celestial Algorithm Critical Hit Games |
Critical Hit Games | 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT |
| Sunday Chess at Wholefoods in Midtown, Tampa Whole Foods Market |
Chess Republic | 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT |
| D&D Adventurers League Critical Hit Games |
Critical Hit Games | 2:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT |
| Traveller – Science Fiction Adventure RPG Black Harbor Gaming |
St Pete and Pinellas Tabletop RPG Group | 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM EDT |
| Sunday Pokemon League Sunshine Games | Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! |
Sunshine Games | 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT |
| The Return of Randal Morn Nerdy Needs |
Brandon and Seffner area AD&D and OSR Group | 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT |
| A Duck Presents NB Movie Night Discord.io/Nerdbrew |
Nerd Night Out | 7:00 PM to 11:30 PM EDT |
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How do I put this list together?
It’s largely automated. I have a collection of Python scripts in a Jupyter Notebook that scrapes Meetup and Eventbrite for events in categories that I consider to be “tech,” “entrepreneur,” and “nerd.” The result is a checklist that I review. I make judgment calls and uncheck any items that I don’t think fit on this list.
In addition to events that my scripts find, I also manually add events when their organizers contact me with their details.
What goes into this list?
I prefer to cast a wide net, so the list includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under any of these categories:
For the curious, here’s a recent pic of my home office, a.k.a. “The Fortress of Amplitude.” The gear configuration changes every now and then, but it generally looks like this. It’s where the magic happens!
Just so you know: today’s my first day doing developer relations for HP! More specifically, for HP’s ZGX Nano, a tiny computer designed specifically for running large AI models right on your desktop…and not on someone else’s computers!
The ZGX Nano packs a ridiculous amount of power into a tiny space…
Powered by NVIDIA’s GB10 GPU and a 20-core ARM CPU sharing 128GB of RAM, the ZGX Nano performs at 1,000 teraflops (1 petaflop), which is 1015 floating-point operations per second. It’ll support an AI model taking in 200 billion parameters — 400 billion if you connect two ZGX Nanos together.
I’m getting set up for day one on the job as I write this, so I’m keeping this post short and ending with this gem from a little while back: HP’s Rules of the Garage:
Happy Saturday, everyone! Here on Global Nerdy,
Saturday means that it’s time for another “picdump” — the weekly assortment of amusing or interesting pictures, comics, and memes I found over the past week. Share and enjoy!
Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, August 25 through Sunday, August 31!
This list includes both in-person and online events. Note that each item in the list includes:
✅ When the event will take place
✅ What the event is
✅ Where the event will take place
✅ Who is holding the event
Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. at Hidden Springs Ale Works (Tampa): It’s the August edition of TampaTech Taps & Taco Tuesday, which will feature:
Find out more and register here.
Thursday at 6 p.m. at Magnanimous Brewing in Tampa Heights (Tampa): It’s a join social meetup for Coders, Creatives, and Craft Beer and Tampa Bay Python!
This is an “all conversations, no presentations” event — there’s no lecture nor slides, but just coders, creatives, and Pythonistas getting together to enjoy:
Find out more and register here.
How do I put this list together?
It’s largely automated. I have a collection of Python scripts in a Jupyter Notebook that scrapes Meetup and Eventbrite for events in categories that I consider to be “tech,” “entrepreneur,” and “nerd.” The result is a checklist that I review. I make judgment calls and uncheck any items that I don’t think fit on this list.
In addition to events that my scripts find, I also manually add events when their organizers contact me with their details.
What goes into this list?
I prefer to cast a wide net, so the list includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under any of these categories:
Happy Saturday, everyone! Here on Global Nerdy,
Saturday means that it’s time for another “picdump” — the weekly assortment of amusing or interesting pictures, comics,
and memes I found over the past week. Share and enjoy!
