Learn how to make the most out of your McHacks this year! A short and sweet guide to all our activities so you can plan your next 24h perfectly!

Lifestyle at CSE, the recruitment process, and more

AI and Financial Research

Use of AI in financial markets, Balancing tech innovation and PnL, Biggest challenges in the day-to-day, Work-life balance and managing mental health in high stress environments, How to enter the job market of algorithmic trading

Figma Dev Mode is a new Figma feature designed to create smoother collaboration between designers and developers, as well as empower hackers to level up their own design-skills. The tool provides hackers with a detailed view of design files, including access to specs, assets, and code snippets, ensuring accuracy in the design implementation while saving time in the process. Whether you’re completely new to designing websites or want to expand your existing skill set, this workshop is a great way to learn one of the most developer friendly and professionally utilized design tools on the market.

Learn how to optimize your app's data flow from the backend to the UI. We will take you on an optimization journey where you will learn techniques for increasing your app's performance and scalability at different levels of the stack, with a focus on the backend.

GitHub Copilot is a cloud-based artificial intelligence tool developed by GitHub and OpenAI to assist users of integrated development environments (IDEs) by autocompleting code, making code suggestions, writing and optimizing code, generating markdown, and more. It is currently the most widely adopted AI pair programming tool and has been proven to increase developer productivity and the speed at which software can be developed.

A short introduction to large language models. Getting started (zero shot prompting, few shot prompting, prompt engineering, tools, agents, RAG, fine tuning). Existing tooling in the marketplace (ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, LangChain etc.). Experience from building 3 full stack generative AI projects (a chatbot to help students with learning, a therapy assistant, natural language to SQL) do's and don't, system design and execution. Working at Gumloop, and what users can accomplish.