Hello world!

Come one, come all, Bytes & Bites is hosting a hackathon! The gauntlet has been laid down to make a chatbot for use in the VU Library to assist in answering questions on research data. Form a team or craft it solo, for your chance to win the prize! The royal highness has decreed that the three best entrants will enjoy each enjoy a prize, so try your hand at the challenge.

To prepare you for the trials we have three guest speakers.

Maurice Vanderfeesten, who manages research innovation here in the VU, has been testing training different models for LLMs. He will show some of his work and outline the process he used for each of the models.

Radu Apsan from the Nebula team in the Network Institute will also give a short presentation on the great work they are doing on their LLM stack hosted at the VU, its current capabilities and plans for the future.

Elisa Rodenberg will outline the parameters of the chatbot, what it should do, provide some data to work with and the typical process and rules of the work the bot should do.

And it won't be a Bytes & Bites without our special recurring guests Pizza and Soft drinks to power you throughout the hackathon.

We will be in the O2 Building 01W08.

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About Bytes & Bites

Do you want to meet other researchers, improve your programming skills, or ask questions related to programming? Pick up your laptop and come to Bytes & Bites. At Bytes & Bites anyone is welcome, whether you are a beginner or advanced programmer, whether you write in R or in C++.

And of course, you can't program and work with "Bytes" without any tasty "Bites"!

More information about Bytes & Bites and all materials from previous sessions can be found here: https://ubvu.github.io/bytes-and-bites/

Bytes & Bites is hosted at O2 building 01W08