Join us virtually this Wednesday as we crack open the magic behind modern multimodal embeddings and why they’re not just “text embeddings with pictures pasted on.” Part I – Foundations Modality alignment 101 – How contrastive pre-training pulls text, images, and video frames into one joint space. Vector anatomy – Why pixel patches, temporal frame […]
This week we’ll have Jack Francis as our guest speaker! He will be talking about Replit’s AI Agent for creating applications. “This session demonstrates how to turn an idea into a functional application in minutes using Replit’s AI Agent. We’ll demystify the mechanics behind this powerful AI coding assistant, tour the Replit platform, and then […]
This week we are taking a field trip to the Space & Missile Defense Symposium! Some of us will walk the exhibit hall floor on Tuesday and early Wednesday to compile a list of companies that have AI related projects on display. Then we’ll do a group walkthrough starting at 3pm on Wednesday to visit […]
Join us virtually this Wednesday at 6 pm to continue our monthly Paper Review series! We will examine SWE-Exp, a study that equips code-repair agents with an “experience bank”, a persistent memory that turns isolated fixes into reusable knowledge. As usual we will split up the review into two segments. In the first half we […]
This week we are back at HudsonAlpha to talk about group projects. There are a few projects that we’ve worked in the past that I’ll bring up again to evaluate new possibilities due to advances in LLMs. There are some other projects that folks in the community have been talking about, so we’ll see if […]
Join us this week to learn how to get the most of out Midjourney! David Showalter will be leading this session, drawing on his experience with more than 75,000 prompts. David has used Midjourney for personal creativity and exploration, concept art for work projects and presentations, and a few finished images for work. This session will be […]
Join us virtually this Wednesday at 6 pm to continue our monthly Paper Review series! We will walk through a recent paper from Microsoft titled “Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI”. This paper uses Microsoft’s unique position to analyze 200,000 anonymized conversations with Microsoft Bing Copilot (now Microsoft Copilot) from U.S. users in […]
We’ll have several of our folks give short talks about what they are working on or learning.
I have just completed moving nearly all of transcribe.hsv.ai off of an AWS stack and over to a Runpod backend with the web ui hosted with DigitalOcean. The cost of AWS had been incrementally increasing over the years, and we’ll take a look at what the residual hosting costs were when I shut it down. This session […]
Join us virtually this Wednesday at 6 pm to continue our monthly Paper Review series! We’ll unpack how “SE 3.0” organizes human–AI teamwork so outcomes are traceable and reviewable. The paper proposes two coordinated workspaces and a set of lightweight scripts that turn vague tasks into auditable, versioned work. Part I – Foundations Why SE […]
It’s time (and finally cool enough) for our Fall Social! Come join us at Stovehouse after work on Wednesday and get to know the group. This is always a great way to get introduced to others in the group. I’ll try go grab a few tables by Pourhouse – probably as close to 5pm as […]
AI Discussion supporting the Congressional Office of International Leadership. There is a group of 6 from Latvia here as part of this program. The normal agenda has been greatly affected by the government shutdown (no NASA, etc), so they asked if I can talk about AI. The plan is to talk about AI, innovation, community, […]
