Custom ChatGPT for your real-time data

Presented by: Bobur Umurzokov

In our modern world where speedy access to the right information matters, going through enormous amounts of records such as legal papers, academic studies, news, and technical guides can be automated using AI. However, an AI chatbot like ChatGPT can not answer questions about unfamiliar topics after...

Tags: Python, Backend, Data ScienceFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overview

Developing kids in tech - a retrospective

Presented by: Bill Sempf

Your humble speaker has spent the last eighteen years devising, researching, and implementing ways to get kids into tech. Between Scouting, advising friends, KidzMash, and my own Thing 1 and Thing 2, I have accumulated a rather dramatic list of ideas that do and do not work. Programming, social...

Tags: Python, Security, LeadershipFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overview

How to Ground LLM's to minimize hallucinations

Presented by: Cameron Vetter

Language models have made significant advancements in recent years, with models like GPT-3 and GPT-4 showcasing impressive capabilities. However, one persistent challenge that arises with these models is the occurrence of hallucinations—instances where the model generates plausible-sounding but...

Tags: Python, Machine Learning, Data ScienceFormat: General SessionLevel: Intermediate

Take Back Control - Introducing Veilid

Presented by: Bill Sempf

Veilid is an open-source, peer-to-peer, mobile-first, networked application framework. It allows developers to build private, distributed, scalable social applications containing and sharing a user's personal content without data collection by third parties being of concern. Built by Cult of the...

Tags: Python, Rust, Mobile, Security, CloudFormat: General SessionLevel: Intermediate

What's that smell? Monitoring air quality with Python, Raspberry Pi, and Redis

Presented by: Justin Castilla

With a little wiring and a few lines of code, one can create your own hyper-local air sensor system to send alerts, activate smart-windows, and gather data. A sensor measures air particulate density and sends the values to a Raspberry Pi compute unit. The Raspberry Pi then sends the data along with...

Tags: Python, IoT, Cloud, Data Science, DatabasesFormat: General SessionLevel: Intermediate