[Announce] LLMs and UUIDs May 9th 2023 - MUG Meeting

[craig at decafbad.net]

Visit mug.org (https://mug.org) for details on how to participate in
the meeting (links, phone numbers, and Youtube Streaming).



 Topics Include:



 Large Language Models



 Justin Triplett will give a mini-presentation on Large Language
Models or LLMs. This is a common name for the technology you might
have heard about in the form of ChatGPT, LLaMA, and Alpaca.



 He will cover the recent developments that have been happening over
the past year from different companies and organizations, and go over
the basic concepts of how they are made and used. Also he will be
showing demonstrations of running some models locally and in other
environments.



 There should be some time for group discussion.





 UUID - Universally Unique Identifiers



 What are they and what are they useful for?



 Jim McQuillan will give a mini-presentation on UUIDs He'll cover the
history, versions, uniqueness and why you might want to be using them.
In addition, he'll show examples of generating them in various
programming languages.







 Plus we'll have our regular features: Jobs Looking for People, People
Looking for Jobs, and much more!