Nerd Nite: Geeky Lectures in a Rock Club | Rickshaw Stop
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Rickshaw Stop | 155 Fell Street, San Francisco, CA
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POSTPONED: Nerd Nite: Geeky Lectures in a Rock Club (Rickshaw Stop)
Starting in July 2022 we don’t see any more events on their calendar. Hopefully Nerd Nite will be back, soon!
What happens when geeks take over a rock club for an evening of drinking and presentations? Find out at Nerd Nite, a monthly lecture-in-a-bar series.
They get smart and interesting people, give them lots of free drinks, and put them on stage in front of a couple hundred tipsy nerds. Sometimes it’s funny, sometimes it’s salacious, and it’s always nerdy.
Nerd Nite
Every third Wednesday | Doors at 7 pm; Show at 8 pm
Rickshaw Stop | 155 Fell Street, San Francisco
$15 | All Ages
Nerd Nite resumed in San Francisco on July 21, 2021
Last Update: 8/10/21 – Event Link
As is their hallowed nerdy tradition, their December show has NOTHING to do with the holidays and EVERYTHING to do with learning something new about something you never knew you should know. Got it? So come get it. Dude, they’ll get so meta about metadata with a software engineer and kick it with one of their audience faves (and nephew of DJ Alpha Bravo) rapping (maybe literally) about dinosaurs. With booze from their beloved Rickshaw ‘tenders, books from the SFPL, and bites from Alicia’s Tamales, be there and be square.
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“STOMPIN’ THROUGH TIME” by Brian Engh
Explore a dinosaur-infested prehistoric ecology through the evidence left on a squishy, nasty old lakeshore. You may remember Brian from his 2015 talk, “Extreme Dinosaur Makeover,” in which he took us through the process of accurately reconstructing dinosaurs from bones on up. Well, this professional paleo artist and creature designer is back to edify and entertain you.
Brian is also a filmmaker, animator and rapper/beat-maker steeped in a lifelong fascination with natural history. His paleo illustrations can be seen in scientific papers, books, museum displays, and several outdoor interpretive fossil sites around Moab Utah, one of which is the focus of this talk. His various and assorted creative efforts are collected on his website http://www.DontMessWithDinosaurs.com.
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“Getting Meta with Your Data: How to see and be more than the sum of our parts” by Simon Bayangos
“Metadata” has entered the mainstream, but much of its meaning and value has been mislaid in the process. Metadata is just that—data that tells us about data. But most of our attempts to capture, comprehend, and control this information have tried to do it as if it were analog information. What if we could experience data the way we hear an orchestra or smell an amazing meal? What if we could interpret millions or even billions of pieces of information not as individual isolated stories but as a collective whole? And what if this information were not scientifically accumulated data on the physical world but rather the intertwined threads of our lives? Tonight we will see and hear metadata in ways few people have perceived it and learn about all the big and small, public and secret ways and places it is accumulated. Whoa, meta.
Simon’s never met a piece of data he couldn’t dig something interesting out of (a.k.a. Head of Engineering at Nuix – a forensic software company).—————————
Third talk details to come
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With: Alpha Bravo, who’ll be spinning tunes specially selected to match the presenters’ themes. Follow the setlist on Twitter @djalphabravo.
Food: Alicia’s Tamales los Mayas will be upstairs serving hot plates of yum.
Plus: The San Francisco Public Library will be on hand to dole out library cards, reading lists, and the hottest branch gossip.
Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.
Cost: $8
Categories: Geek Event, Lectures & Workshops, San Francisco
