Developer Meetup in Cambridge [AI, LLM, Python] August 28, 2024

Hi Community, 
We invite you to join our next Meetup in Cambridge, MA on August 28, 5:30-7:30 pm.
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⏱ Day and Time: August 28, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
📍CIC Venture Café in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Talks:

1️⃣ A Vision for the Future: Scaling Python without Workarounds
Abstract: In this session, we will introduce and demonstrate Exaloop's platform for data teams, which is a newly developed platform, compatible with Python, helping data teams to achieve 10x-100x execution performance improvement, take advantage of multi-processing capabilities, and GPU acceleration without the need to rewrite code in other languages or dependency on software engineering.
Presenter: Ariya Shajii, CTO of Exaloop [ GitHub | Website ]

Bio: Ariya Shajii is co-founder and CTO of Exaloop. Ariya co-founded Exaloop in late 2021 after completing his PhD in MIT’s Computer Science and AI Lab (CSAIL), focusing on the intersection between high-performance computing and computational genomics. He also holds a Master’s degree in computer science from MIT and a Bachelor of Science in computer engineering from Boston University.

2️⃣ Failure Trapping in Large Language Models: AI and statistical approaches
Abstract: This talk will discuss rudimentary and advanced techniques to capture generation failures, misalignment, and harmful prompts in AI.
Presenter: Nicholai Mitchko, Manager, Solution Partner Sales Engineering, InterSystems

Bio: Nicholai [LinkedIn] runs a team of 10 solution engineers at InterSystems that help healthcare companies design, develop, and deliver solutions at enormous scale. In his free time, Nicholai works on large language models, including developing his own models which appear on the Huggingface OpenLLM leaderboard.

Food, beverages, and networking opportunities will be provided as always.
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