<div dir="auto"><div>Team, we are headed into a full crisis. Your help is necessary!</div><div dir="auto">Thanks in advance.</div><div dir="auto">Artur<br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Nicholas Gisolfi</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:ngisolfi@cs.cmu.edu">ngisolfi@cs.cmu.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Sep 15, 2023, 12:05 PM<br>Subject: Re: We are in need of mentors for the hackAuton<br>To: Artur Dubrawski <<a href="mailto:awd@cs.cmu.edu">awd@cs.cmu.edu</a>><br>Cc: Jack Good <<a href="mailto:jhgood@cs.cmu.edu">jhgood@cs.cmu.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Artur,</div><div><br></div><div>We are on track to fall short on mentors for the hackAuton. I have made repeated appeals to try to support Jack (cc'ed) on the ground this weekend.<br></div><div></div><div><div><br></div><div>We are at risk of needing to close up shop early
tomorrow evening after dinner - we have no one available to help at the
evening session and I don't want to expect Jack to be there himself. Out of all the Autonians we sent direct emails to, we only have 3 mentors for the coding sessions:</div></div><div>- Mononito</div><div>- Chi-En</div><div>- Yeeho</div><br><div>In your meetings today, please encourage Autonians to be present in-person to help out at the hackAuton.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>- Nick<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 5:47 PM Jack Good <<a href="mailto:jhgood@cs.cmu.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">jhgood@cs.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>Thanks to those who have signed up so far! If you are volunteering, we want to make sure you have access to the PSC compute resources that will be available to the participants. This can take up to 48 hours, so if you think there is even a chance you will volunteer, please do steps 1 and 2 below ASAP.<br><br><div>1) Head to <a href="https://identity.access-ci.org/new-user" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://identity.access-ci.org/new-user</a> and follow instructions for creating an ACCESS account.</div><div>2) Send me your ACCESS username.</div><div>3) After I confirm that you've been added, request a Pittsburgh Supercomputing password at <a href="https://apr.psc.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://apr.psc.edu/</a> using your ACCESS username and email address. If it says your username/email combination doesn't exist, try again later (this is the up to 48 hour part).<br></div><div>4) Connect to <a href="https://www.psc.edu/resources/bridges-2/user-guide/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Bridges-2</a> using your credentials from terminal $ ssh [username]@<a href="http://bridges2.psc.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">bridges2.psc.edu</a><br>5) Check out the <a href="https://www.psc.edu/resources/bridges-2/user-guide/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">user guide</a>.</div><div><br></div></div><div>We have a number of CPU and GPU nodes reserved for the duration of the event.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>Jack Good</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 2:06 PM Nicholas Gisolfi <<a href="mailto:ngisolfi@cs.cmu.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ngisolfi@cs.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Team,</div><div><br></div><div>We are in need of your expertise for the <a href="https://autonlab.org/hackAuton/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">hackAuton</a> this weekend, Sept. 15-17.<br></div><div><br></div><div>We will likely have between 30-75 grad/ugrad/HS participants and we need mentors to circulate and help answer any questions they may have.</div><div><br></div><div>Most importantly, we want to have a strong roster of volunteers for <b>Friday and Saturday</b>, when teams will be thinking about which challenge problem they will tackle. Participants will be thinking about AI Safety, Green/Sustainable ML, and Reducing ML Dev Cycle Time - common meta-topics that weave through many of the lab's projects.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Please <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mpIzq9M-y1a4oPnaX-Lv5JShpOBjfReu1kTil4cYJ_Q/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">sign up</a> so we know who we can count on for each session. </div><div><br></div><div>I want to thank you in advance for making yourselves available on a weekend - the hackAuton is a really important part of the 30th Anniversary celebrations and we want to create a positive and memorable experience for everyone involved.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you!</div><div><br></div><div>- Nick and Jack, on behalf of the rest of the hackAuton planning team<br></div></div>
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