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| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| AI Agents In-Depth – Function Calling, MCP and Tool Use Under the Hood | NDC Copenhagen 2026 | 2026-06-01 |
Shows how GPT-4o function calling and SDKs (OpenAI Foundry, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, Agent Framework) actually drive tool selection, not tool execution, and… | ||
| Drop the Bass with Embedding and Vectors in Azure AI Search | NDC London 2026 | 2026-01-26 |
Live demos show Azure AI Search doing text, image, face and music vector search by indexing embeddings rather than keywords: uses Azure AI Search, ResNet-18 +… | ||
| Drop the Bass with Embedding and Vectors in Azure AI Search | NDC AI 2025 | 2025-11-11 |
Demo shows building real vector search pipelines: ResNet18 image embeddings feed Azure AI Search indexes with 12,300 dog vectors and a 280,000-image auction… | ||
| Inside GPT – Large Language Models Demystified | NDC AI 2025 | 2025-11-11 |
Downloads include Jupyter notebooks and a zip that run GPT2 from scratch (about 126M parameters, 12 layers, 12 heads, 768-d embeddings) so you can step through… | ||
| Drop the Bass with Embedding and Vectors in Azure AI Search | NDC Copenhagen 2025 | 2025-09-08 |
Demos show embedding pipelines that actually run: ResNet18 with PyTorch for image features, VGGish embeddings for audio, Annoy and Azure AI Search for… | ||
| GPT-4 vs Starcraft II – Strategic Decision Making using Large Language Models | AI-fokus 2025 | 2025-06-10 |
Demo shows GPT-4 controlling StarCraft II through a Python API, producing 20-step build orders and switching between defend or attack strategies, with attack… | ||
| GPT-4 vs Starcraft II – Strategic Decision Making using Large Language Models | NDC Oslo 2025 | 2025-05-19 |
Uses GPT-4 via Azure OpenAI to read a numeric StarCraft II game state (time, supply, resources, units, structures) and return a one‑paragraph strategy plus a… | ||
| Inside GPT – The Maths Behind the Magic | GOTO Copenhagen 2024 | 2024-09-30 |
Walkthrough of architecture and hands‑on results explains tokenization, sampling and RAG with concrete numbers: GPT2 locally (≈128M parameters) runs demos that… | ||
| Inside GPT – Large Language Models Demystified | GOTO Amsterdam 2024 | 2024-06-10 |
Shows GPT-2 on a laptop using Hugging Face + PyTorch to step through tokenization, embedding lookups and the 1x5x768 input tensor; demonstrates the 50k‑token… | ||
| Inside GPT – Large Language Models Demystified | NDC Oslo 2024 | 2024-06-10 |
Demonstrates that a language model is literally a next‑token predictor and shows a runnable demo: a GPT-2 on PyTorch chat bot delivered from a laptop using… | ||
| 5 Levels of AI in Microsoft Azure | CloudBurst 2022 | 2022-10-27 |
Practical walkthrough of Azure tools with measured results: Azure Video Indexer produces transcripts, translations and celebrity tags; Custom Vision trains… | ||
| Graph of Thrones, Azure Cosmos DB vs. The Seven Kingdoms | Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2022 | 2022-04-19 |
Uses Azure Cosmos DB's Gremlin API to model Game of Thrones: screen-scrapes the wiki into a ~9,500-line JSON, imports via a console app into a graph with 872… | ||
| Graph of Thrones, Azure Cosmos DB vs. The Seven Kingdoms - Alan Smith | Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2022 | 2022-04-19 |
Built a Game of Thrones graph by screen-scraping the Wiki into a 9,500-line JSON, loading it with a console app into Azure Cosmos DB Graph API (Gremlin) using… | ||
| Data Sonification: Making Music from the yield curve | Strata Data Conference 2019 - New York, NY | 2019-09-23 |
Argues that mapping the 40‑year animated yield curve to sound reveals patterns pixels miss, using an exported data stream into a hardware music synthesizer… | ||
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