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SUMMARY:PHP Oxford meetup
DESCRIPTION:This month we are excited to be joined by two speakers!!\n\nFir
 st up is Chris Miller with: Testing In The Real World.\n\n"How we use PHPU
 nit and TDD in awe-der to make our lives easier. Covering how to set up te
 sts\, what the tests look like\, and what to do if a test fails when you d
 on’t expect it to.\n\nChris is a developer at Jump24 in Birmingham\, UK 
 - Jump24 is a full circle Laravel development studio\, delivering bespoke 
 software to both the industry and end-customers. When Chris isn't developi
 ng\, hes usually found talking at events\, planning his next talk or learn
 ing new tricks in PHP."\n\nAfter that\, we have Mark Harrison with: A Brie
 f History of Whatever Two Letters We Use to Mean Thinking Machines.\n\n"Ca
 ll it AI\, call it ML\, call it MI\, call it SI... we've been\, as a socie
 ty let alone a profession\, fascinated by the idea of thinking machines fo
 r decades.\n\nThis talk starts by taking us through 40 years of such specu
 lation\, tries to explain what "intelligence" is\, and finishes by present
 ing a roundup of the state of the art\, and ends with a brief introduction
  to how any programmer in 2020 should be able to include some Machine Lear
 ning within a couple of weeks.\n\nMark Harrison first programmed (in BASIC
 ) 1979\, and first wrote code in "an AI Language" for ICL in 1991\, as par
 t of a summer job\, while studying Mathematics and Computation and Oxford 
 (a long while before Oxford had a thing called "Computer Science.") He's s
 een waves of technologies come and (mostly) go. He's now "the part time CT
 O" for two different startups\, and his consultancy clients include organi
 sations as diverse as The Cabinet Office and software written by him and t
 eams he has led is run by several major banks and a few hedge funds."\n\nI
 nteresting in speaking?\n\nIf you'd like to present or even do a lightning
  talk (5-20 minutes) at a future event\, please get in touch!\n\nRefreshme
 nts & sponsors\n\nIn the olden days\, we'd have a physical meet-up and Ref
 reshments (drinks and snacks) would be provided courtesy of our sponsors H
 aybrook IT (https://haybrook.co.uk/). Despite not being able to take advan
 tage of their generosity\, we continue to thank Haybrook and our other spo
 nsors Invitial (https://www.invitial.com/) for their support\, and to OCFI
  for use of the venue.\n\nCode of Conduct\n\nPlease note that this meet-up
  is covered by our code of conduct (https://github.com/phpoxford/code-of-c
 onduct/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md). We request that all attendees abid
 e by the code of conduct at all times. Thank you!\n\nhttps://www.larachat.
 co/meetings/php-oxford-meetup-39
URL:https://www.larachat.co/meetings/php-oxford-meetup-39
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