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Speaking appearances

• What Is AI Model Collapse—And How Can We Avoid It? 2025-06-06 — London
• How is rapid growth possible‽ 2024-09-14 — San Francisco
• Tuesday Tech Talks: Guardrails for LLMs 2024-09-03
• Octavia Butler Inspired AI Workshop (Women & Non-Binary Night) 2024-08-13 — Oakland
• Noting meditation 2024-08-04 — San Francisco
• Where is the Math in Art? (Roaming Hackerspace Art Walk) 2024-08-02 — San Francisco
• 4 weeks AI Study Group @ Block: Andrej Karpathy's Zero to GPT Hero 2024-07-25 — San Francisco
• Community Paper Reading: DSPy Assertions – Computational Constraints for Self-Refining LM Pipelines 2024-07-17
• Google DeepMind’s Griffin architecture: A challenger to the Transformer? 2024-07-11
• AI & Grant Writing Networking Mixer 2024-06-28 — San Francisco
• Wednesday Workshops: Improving RAG 2024-06-12
• Fairness and Bias in AI | All You Need to Know About AI Governance - Part 5 2024-05-14
• Ai Salon: Augmentation 2024-05-05 — San Francisco