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Tech Alley Vegas | Vegas Programmers - July 2024

Tech Alley Vegas | Vegas Programmers - July 2024 Recorded at Tech Alley in Las Vegas inside the Vegas Theater Company - https://www.theatre.vegas Joshua Copeland gusts hosts Vegas Programmers, an open and free community of computer scientists who love to develop software. Find more information at https://www.meetup.com/vegas-programmers/ This month, Joe Mayo explains the Acronym Soup of AI, OSS, and RAG. Unless you've been unplugged and camping in the wilderness for the last couple of years, you've probably heard about the latest advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI). More specifically, the buzz has been around Large Language Models (LLM) like ChatGPT. Stand-alone, ChatGPT is pretty impressive and it's even more remarkable what people are using it for. One of the ways that companies are using LLMs for is via a process known as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). In a nutshell, RAG is a set of algorithms that let you to use documents with LLMS - essentially AI on your own Intellectual Property (IP). In this session, Joe Mayo shows you the basics of how RAG works via his own open-source software (OSS), Generellem. Full disclosure - Generellem is the underlying engine of Joe's new SaaS startup, Generellem Inc. After this discussion, you'll get the gist of what RAG is and understand some of the powerful new ways that developers are leveraging LLMs. Joe Mayo has been working as an author, instructor, and independent consultant for several years. His 9 books include C# Cookbook/O'Reilly and Programming the Microsoft Bot Framework/MS Press. For his community contributions, Joe has received 15 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) awards. Recently, Joe co-founded a new company, Generellem, Inc. (https://generellem.ai), letting people safely use AI with their own documents. Joe lives in Las Vegas and, in addition to local events, you can find him on X as @JoeMayo. Joshua Copeland is CTO of Remote Dev Force (https://www.remotedevforce.com) and works with clients all over the world to build high quality systems. With over 15 years as a software architect and serial entrepreneur, Joshua has gained a good blend of start-up and enterprise experience. Developing PHP applications is a big part of his day-to-day work and keeps security first-in-mind. Joshua’s team of engineers throughout the U.S. regularly work on building features for mission critical projects in Laravel/Symfony, setting up and maintaining servers with Terraform/AWS, building CI pipelines with Jenkins/GitLab/GitHub Actions, Pen-testing, and much more. He has led the Vegas Programmers Users' Group for over 7 years and loves to give back by speaking at conferences and educating the community. Contact Joshua Copeland through: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ogprogrammer/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ogprogrammer/ Website - https://www.remotedevforce.com E-mail - Josh@RemoteDevForce.com User Group: meetup.com/vegas-programmers Video production and editing executed by Ryan Opelac. For all inquiries pertaining to filming services, kindly reach out to Ryan via LinkedIn or by email. LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanopelac E-mail - ryanopelac@techalley.org If you enjoy this video, then please subscribe to our channel. 💗 Support our mission to strengthen communities by bringing people together, fostering a creative class, and creating an inclusive, diverse, and innovative technology and startup culture - https://donorbox.org/tech-alley-bringing-the-tech-and-startup-scenes-together-fund Follow Tech Alley! Twitter: https://twitter.com/TechAlleyEvents Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/techalleyevents/ Website: https://www.techalley.org/ Tech Alley is a non-profit (501c3) created to build and support local technology and startup communities by hosting full-day monthly events showcasing a variety of meetups, speakers, and workshops that attracts people of all interests, ages, and skill level to a diverse and welcoming startup scene. Tech Alley events have been a catalyst for the development of talent, ideas, mentorship, innovation, creativity, and a culture that practices the Give First philosophy- all the components of a vibrant entrepreneur ecosystems.