April 2024: Running Local LLMs
Crossover meeting with Gem City Machine Learning
For April, we’re going to crash Gem City Machine Learning’s party! GCML’s Nick Gerakines is presenting to GCML:
Running your own LLM is pretty easy and there are a lot of tools and platforms that make it possible. If you have the right hardware, with a little bit of elbow grease, you can run your own chatbots and interact with LLMs using session interfaces and APIs.
… and we’re going to join them! They’re coming to our meeting place (The Hub) and our time - well, roughly (social time starts at 6 PM, lecture at 6:30). So let’s all get together!
The official GCML meeting will wrap up before DDL’s usual end time, so we can decide on the fly what we will do then - perhaps we’ll go for dinner together, or stick around and try out what we just learned together.
Location: Innovation Hub
We meet in the Innovation Hub,
a gorgeous new facility that’s part of the renovated Dayton Arcade complex.
Enter through the doors that face the Wright Stop Plaza bus hub.
Street parking is free in the evening. I usually park on Ludlow Street.
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if for any reason coming downtown doesn’t work for you (for instance, you’ve been exposed to COVID, or you’ve converted yourself to purely digital format and now exist as a set of cloud-hosted algorithms), we’ll be online as well!
Join us at 6:30 PM EDT on the PyFri Discord channel, discord.gg/9SgTh3T, and click on the General voice chat link. You may need to install the Discord desktop app rather than just using the web interface.