Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2024-04-29 The meeting was called to order at 19:33 by innaavo. In attendance were Student keyholders: alwinfy, innaavo, psvenk, rgabriel, jmvidal, colclark, arjunjb Associate keyholders: almonds, kenta Members: scj643, vex, xyn, jazsolan, andiliu, guoj1112 Guests: Jeffery Yu Administrivia: innaavo: Can I allocate $50 for the shelf that we're going to put over there [gesturing next to the Duolith] for snacks? psvenk: Seconded innaavo: Motion to white ballot rgabriel: Seconded [motion passes by white-ballot] innaavo: Also, I would like to nominate vex for keyholdership rgabriel: Seconded vex: I accept alwinfy: Talk to me after the meeting, we'll do scheduling. almonds: We'd like to make an allocation for HWOps for a telescoping magnet, so that nuts and bolts falling into the holes are easier to recover. $13. innaavo: Seconded; motion to white ballot. psvenk: Seconded [motion passes by white-ballot] psvenk: We have money! The semester is almost over. We should do another SIPB dinner! innaavo: Sounds good! When? alwinfy: I have something this Friday but I can schedule around it. How does next Friday sound? innaavo: Oh, that's when the freshman formal is. [discussion of the freshman formal and ring delivery] alwinfy: In that case, this Friday sounds good. [assent] innaavo: Where do we want to go? alwinfy: We've broken from tradition the last few times, but Chinese *is* tradition. alwinfy: Not that there are many options anyway because Cambridge is a food desert. psvenk: Cambridge is not a food desert, but MIT (officially "Area 2") is. I will not tolerate slander. andiliu: There are a few places - Five Spice, Mulan Taiwan, Dumpling Xuan innaavo: Dumpling Xuan sounds good! [discussion of food] xyn: If we really want to spend IS&T's money, what's that French place? psvenk: When is Fogo de Chão happening? alwinfy: Let's not and say we did. innaavo: Sounds good! This Friday at 17:30, meet here at the office. alwinfy: Public service announcement: If you want to send memes to everyone who's ever been a SIPB member, send to sipb-soc@mit.edu. rgabriel: I thought "soc" was "system on a chip". colclark: Fill out the ASA meeting forms! alwinfy: We'll take care of it. We'll take it out back and send it to a farm upstate. rgabriel: Also, if you have any questions for IS&T, please send them to the EC - we'll meet with IS&T next week. Project Reports: almonds: Dormdigest continues. We discussed ideas about merging together, and also open-source LLMs like Llama 3 for parsing. andiliu: We also discussed merging our 3 pretty separate codebases. [discussion about dormdigest/dormsoup/unsubscribe/selling swipes] scj643: SIPB Vault continues - I have the dev server still up; I just need to meet with EC to get it to prod. almonds: LLMs and HWOps continues - we installed BOSS-TODDLER, it's chonky and it's great. We need to put software on it - we'll do that later tonight. andiliu: You keep mentioning EC - I assume that's not just East Campus? alwinfy: EC is "Exec Committee" - [explains the EC structure] scj643: Anyway, SIPB Vault is meant to replace the time-honored tradition of writing down passwords and then eating them. alwinfy: Yeah, we usually just write the office password on a sticky note and then shred or eat it. psvenk: Do we have a SIPB Lighter? alwinfy: I think we had one in the Chair cabinet, colclark put it there colclark: Oh, that? I fully stole that alwinfy: Of course you did colclark: I borrowed the lighter for a while. alwinfy: You've borrowed a lot of stuff over your tenure here, colclark, and we will not let your soul rest until you've returned all of them! Enjoy your haunting, colclark! Enjoy your four years. colclark: If you want to haunt me, you'll have to come to my frat house, and you're halfway to being rushed then. rgabriel: Matrix continues. I skipped class to go to matrix.org office hours last week. psvenk: Hydrant continues; fall listings are now live. CourseRoad continues - do we have any updates on logography? alwinfy: Not yet - I'll get back to you next week. Other: rgabriel: How is OpenGrades going? innaavo: Good question! I'm meeting up with them tonight. The server on MongoDB kept closing due to periods of inactivity... psvenk: Is the server web scale? scj643: No! No. alwinfy: No. It's been 10 years. You have to let go. colclark: Yes hello. I am trying to get a SIPB Infra Jump Trading Pipeline going. If you are a junior or senior and you want to get quantpilled, come talk to me. innaavo: Traditionally our meetings were at 19:30, but I like the number 3 so I start at 19:33. [introduction for everyone in the room] andiliu: More introductions: I'm a junior who's MEnging next semester. I made DormSoup, which is very similar to DormDigest - using more LLMs rather than regex. I'm joining SIPB to work on this project - I'm also looking forward to using custom LLMs rather than paying OpenAI. almonds: We'll be working on LLMs Friday at 3pm. Other Other: scj643: As of the 6th I am married! As of the 9th I got Covid. As of now I'm getting $5k from Apple! vex: What did you find? scj643: I found a privacy issue exposing a device's MAC address and name. almonds: Prereg opens May 1st for the fall! guoj1112: The Zesiger aquatic center will be closing temporarily in May. innaavo: Also, Bladee released another album. It's called Cold Visions, it's album of the year, and I'm plugging it shamelessly. psvenk: The end of the semester is sooner than you think! psvenk: I support honesty. The meeting was adjourned at 20:09. Minutes taken by psvenk, almonds, innaavo, alwinfy and submitted by alwinfy.