Let's gather again - in person and enjoy some talks & company.

Schedule

(estimated)

18:30 Doors Open and get together

19:00 Intro & first Talk

~19:30 Break

~20:00 2nd talk

~ 20:30 Lightning Talks (5 mins each)

Finding the way

It's part of the Flink Office

Food & Drinks

There will be drinks, there will be some sandwiches and wraps. First come first served, as usual!

Health & Safety

Be considerate of other people and their space and preferences. There is no mask mandate, but feel free to wear one.

Topics

What is RAG even and how to do it?

Everything today seems to be about LLMs, and this talk is no different! We'll dive into the basics of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), a clever way to make large language models work with your own data. RAG enables AI systems to pull relevant information from your unique content, allowing for smarter, more tailored responses. Join us to explore how this concept is shaping new possibilities for data-driven, context-aware applications.

Mechanical Sympathy, or: writing fast ruby programs

Premature optimization is the root of all evil, so the saying goes, but have you ever endured the hell that is waiting for a slow program to complete?

Let's learn how we can break with the preconceived notions of optimization, learn what modern hardware can do for us and how we can write ruby programs that work with the hardware and not against it.

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Buyer beware:

This is an enhanced version of a talk I gave last September: https://www.rug-b.de/topics/performance-it-can-t-be-an-afterthought-1022

Attendees: (34)

carlad
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Kasper König
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Cory Streiff
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Dennis Hägler
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Noel Vaughn
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Hatim Laajini
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Sajeer Jaleel
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Phil Hansch
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Tim Kächele
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kaja
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Vlad Starkov
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Timur Yanberdin
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Yannick Schade
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Organizer

Tobias Pfeiffer
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Andrew
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Saroj Maharjan
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Irfan Ahmed
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RKushnir
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Ara Hacopian
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Prabesh Shrestha
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Wiktor Mociun
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Chikahiro Tokoro
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Dima Boyko
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Ashwini Seshadri
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Jalyna
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Jan Lelis
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Armin Pašalić
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Mikita Pridorozhko
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Andrew France
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Michael Emhofer
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Roland Koch
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Pavel Jurasek
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