This past weekend was Boston Azure’s Edition of the annual Global Azure Bootcamp. This year we focused on AI and hands-on-labs.
The odd thing about when we scheduled the meetup was we had a lot of people sign up for the group just to rsvp - before most of the existing members had gotten around to rsvp’ing. We did not expect that. It is a mystery as how they heard about the event so quick. We only had one room reserved, so there really was a hard cap on how many people we could let in.
There were a couple of challenges to start the day off with: getting into the room (not uncommon with Saturday events) and finding an availble room with tables and outlets (necessary for hands-on-labs). However, once we got those resolved it was pretty smooth sailing from there.
It did end up being a full house … with a few extra tables added to get everyone in.
My session was the third of the day - right after lunch.
Talk: Getting Started with RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
I presented Getting Started with RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) but was able to skip some of the simple stuff due to earlier sessions covering it (like Chat GPT, etc.). Like with Boston Code Camp, there were a lot of questions and the audience was engaged with the topic.
The presentation pdf can be downloaded here
Lab: Using LangChain to Build a RAG Application With Boston Azure’s Youtube Transcripts
Once I got to the lab, Using LangChain to Build a RAG Application With Boston Azure’s Youtube Transcripts time flew by. Most attendees didn’t have time to get through all of them.
The lab is on my GitHub repo youtube-transcript-rag
It was great to see some faces I hadn’t seen in awhile and nice to meet a bunch of new people.
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