ML MeetUp Events

List of meeting can be found on Gem City TECH MeetUp page under Gem City Machine Learning.

3rd Annual Dayton Themed AI Art Contest

3rd Annual Dayton Themed AI Art Contest

AI generated Dayton Themed Art.

Break down:
Generative Model: Your choice
Discriminator Model: Your Peers
Training set: Your rich knowledge of Dayton
Output: Dayton Themed GAN's / AI generated Art
Prizes: Bragging rights!

Post your art and "How is this…


Dual-numbers, auto-differentiation and gradient decent

Dual-numbers, auto-differentiation and gradient decent

Dr. Aaron Nielsen will be speaking on a fast (aka auto) way to take a differentiation. In Machine Learning and AI, the gradient descent is a standard technique used during the training phase of a neural network. However gradient descent…


Diffusion Models

Diffusion Models

Three speakers giving three distinct talks on Diffusion Models.

Evelyn J. Boettcher will give a high level talk on what diffusion models .

PhD student Daniel Brignac will do a deep dive on the math, followed up with

Wesley Giles…


Matrix Profile for Time Series Data

Matrix Profile for Time Series Data

STUMPY for Time series analysis

Time series analysis is a lot in for stock market predictions. Stumpy is a powerful scalable python library (open source) built by TD Ameritrade.

It efficiently (aka Fast, time is money) computes the matrix profile.



AI Driven Conversational Data Collection

AI Driven Conversational Data Collection

LLM for targeted conversation

Join us for an exciting presentation on an innovative technology designed using Large Language Models (LLMs) that revolutionizes the way businesses conduct interviews and collect data. This cutting-edge solution allows businesses to define a set of…


LLM Tutorial

LLM Tutorial

LLM Tutorial

Nick Gerakines will give a tutorial style example scripts to demonstrate some core concepts in tokenizing. This is a necessary first step if you want to train an LLM on your data. The examples are python based and…


Bayesian Optimization (BO) Tutorial

Bayesian Optimization (BO) Tutorial

Bayesian Optimization

When faced with a black box, how does one optimize it's performance when there a numerous variables that you can change? The answer is use Bayesian Optimization (BO). Both software engineers and AL/ML scientists have to deal with…


AI and Learning: Autism Armory

AI and Learning: Autism Armory

Two talks!

AI for Neurodivergent Users

Wesley Giles is a passionate contributing to the AI/ML community. He is currently involved in project called Autism Armory. Autism Armory is a Generative AI app designed to help offload some of the mental…


Running Local LLMs

Running Local LLMs

Overview

Nick Gerakines will talk about running your own LLM. Running your own 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…


Cognitive Think Tank Collaboration: LLM and TAK

Cognitive Think Tank Collaboration: LLM and TAK

LLM and TAK a use case

Cognitive Think Tank and GemCity ML are co-hosting an event this March 28st. Layla Akilan (Human Machine Teaming SME) will go over a use case of trying to incorporate LLM capabilities to data limited…


Making some Noise: Vertex AI and Teachable Machines

Making some Noise: Vertex AI and Teachable Machines

Speech to Text using Vertex AI. by Jason

A walk through a simple example to test Vertex AI's
transcription accuracy.

and

Sound Classifiers with Teachable Machines

Evelyn Boettcher do a hands one demo of Google's Teachable Machines
for audio sounds.…


New Year, New Starts: No/Low Code ML Tutorial

New Year, New Starts: No/Low Code ML Tutorial

VIRTUAL ONLY: Go to the GemCity.TECH discord server

No / Low Code ML Tutorial

Evelyn J. Boettcher will go through a Google Women Techmakers educational tutorial on how to make an image classifier application with No/Low Code.

This tutorial is…


AI art revisited

AI art revisited

Wow what a difference a year makes! The world of AI has expanded so much. Last year AI generated art was just taking off. This year it has improved so much. This meetup will be part of GemCity Holiday party…


AI art applications

AI art applications

Evelyn Boettcher will speak about how the QR art generators and QR codes work. It is an excellent example of how generative AI works. She discussed generative AI, QR codes and what tools are available to make your own QR…


Seeing Green

Seeing Green

Two Topics: One on making some green and the other using "green" AI.

Financial Machine Learning II: Pilar Orellana, In this note, we showcase optimization techniques for an artificial neural network with respect to stock price prediction. If time permits,…


$Fast Times at the Hub

$Fast Times at the Hub

Fast Times at the Hub

AI and FastAPI: Wesley Giles is going to focus his Dynamic Language talk to implementing an AI within a FastAPI application.

Financial Machine Learning I: Pilar Orellana, In this note, we showcase optimization techniques for…


ML for stock prediction and ML Startup

ML for stock prediction and ML Startup

Money money mooonnneeey

Two Speakers this month.

ML Stock Prediction
Description: 'In this note, we provide foundational tools for analyzing and predicting data from S&P500. '

So you want to create a ML Startup, by Evelyn Boettcher:
This will be…


ML for defining communities

ML for defining communities

LangChain Example, by David Best:
Code For Dayton is using LangChain to make parsing SQL data easier. This is a work in development civic minded coding example to help the Dayton area communities understand how the properties in a specific…


Spiking Neural Networks (SNN)

Spiking Neural Networks (SNN)

Dr. Jeff Clark from RedPoint AI will discuss Spiking Neural Networks (SNN). SNN have the potential to have lower latency and be more computationally efficient. Spiking neural networks are biologically inspired model and are considered a hybrid of neuroscience and…


DoD focused Machine Learning (ML) Collider

DoD focused Machine Learning (ML) Collider

Note: New Location, DATE and Time. This event only.

The WBI Machine Learning Collider will be a collaboration between Gem City ML and WBI and will be on Wednesday, May 17th from 2-4pm at WBI.

The Wright Brothers Institute (WBI)…


Lightning Talks

Lightning Talks

Several speakers will give short presentations.

  • Michael Krumm: AI and 3D reconstructions
  • Evelyn Boettcher: Design Experiments: Multi-Arm Bandit.
  • Allen May: Data Version Control
  • Nick Mackowski: Extracting Data

Future Topic ideas:

  • MLFlow: Brief overview what it is and…

AI Pong

AI Pong

2023 can't be all AI work and no play.

Nate Denlinger will talk about how he built an AI pong game from scratch!

Typically, AI/ML engineers use an ML framework: TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch etc. to build their networks.
Nate wanted…




GANs: AI art

GANs: AI art

Zero Sum Games (but one real winner!)
December's Machine Learning Group will be loosely based on GANs. GANs (generative adversarial networks) are a class of machine learning frameworks where neural networks (NN) compete in a zero sum game.

In this…


Tutorial: k-mean and GMM

Tutorial: k-mean and GMM

Evelyn J. Boettcher will give a tutorial on K-means and Gaussian Mixture model.
These methods are used in unsupervised learning and sound a bit scary.
This tutorial breaks down what K-means and GMS is and how to apply them.




CO2

CO2

Dr. Aaron Nielsen will talk on modeling CO2 in office spaces to predict occupancy!
ML/AI is more than just inputting data in to get same type of data out.
It can be used to predict something new, like feed in…


Robust Adaptive Autonomous Systems

Robust Adaptive Autonomous Systems

Dr. Hairong Gu will present his PhD research topic on Robust Adaptive Autonomous Systems (RAAS) for Optimization.

Many complex real-world experimental scenarios, particularly in quest of prediction accuracy, often encounter difficulties to conduct experiments using an existing experimental procedure for…


Magnetic Navigation

Magnetic Navigation

Challenge Problem:
Guest Speaker: Dr. Aaron Nielsen from AFIT will be talking about
"Machine Learning for Magnetic Navigation" one of the Air Force AI Accelerator projects.

To Learn More see MIT Magnav





Caution with ML

Caution with ML

A walk through a personal project that my family
used to protect our child from unauthorized social media posts.
Scanning multiple social media posts is too time-consuming for parents to do,
however it is not that CPU intensive.

We used…


Random: Can ML identify Randomness

Random: Can ML identify Randomness

Using ML-AI to test the randomness of a python random number generator.

Since this is our first meetup, I thought I would embrace the randomness.
Going to work through a CoLab workbook that
will test various random / pseudo random…



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