Sara ZanMay 12, 2025

Wanna learn more about reasoning LLMs? Check out this short blog post where we debunk three common misunderstanding about these models, and join me at ODSC East 2025 for a complete webinar on the topic!

https://www.zansara.dev/posts/2025-05-12-beyond-hype-reasoning-models/

#AI #GenAI #LLMs #ODSCEast #webinar

Beyond the hype of reasoning models: debunking three common misunderstandings

With the release of OpenAI’s o1 and similar models such as DeepSeek R1, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, Phi 4 Reasoning and more, a new type of LLMs entered the scene: the so-called reasoning models. With their unbelievable scores in the toughest benchmarks for machine intelligence, reasoning models immediately got the attention of most AI enthusiasts, sparking speculations about their capabilities and what those could mean for the industry. However, as often in the field of Generative AI, the hype makes it very difficult to understand at a glance what these models can really do. But before we jump into the details let’s clarify what we’re talking about.

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Will Hopkins 🌈📸May 7, 2025

If you're going to #ODSC next week, say hi! Let's do a Fedi meetup.

#ODSCEast #Boston

Yuan TangFeb 22, 2024
Open Data Science Conference (@_odsc) is coming! Hear me speak on Highly Scalable Inference Platform for Models of Any Size in Boston on April 24th! If you are going to #ODSC this year, let's catch up there! #ODSCEast #DataScience #MLOps #AI #MachineLearning
Yuan TangApr 21, 2022
📝 Taking notes on things I could improve for the next conference talk while watching my pre-recorded session at #ODSCEast at a "live" webinar. It's cool to see messages already popping up in my inboxes and connection requests on LinkedIn while the talk is still going on!
Yuan TangFeb 14, 2022
🎙️ I'll be speaking at @odsc on #DataScience and #CloudNative! 👉 Register and join me at #ODSCEast 2022! https://hubs.li/Q013xxvb0 @akuityio #MLOps #DevOps #OpenSource #MachineLearning
Sara ZanMay 3, 2024

If you've missed my talk at #ODSCEast but you're interested in #LLMs, #RAG, and how to debug and monitor them, good news!

On my blog you can find a complete write-up of the talk, including the slides and all the links. Enjoy!

https://www.zansara.dev/posts/2024-04-29-odsc-east-rag-talk-summary/

#AI #NLP #LLM #GenAI #GenerativeAI #ODSC #ODSCEast

Talk Summary: RAG, the bad parts (and the good!)

This is a summary of my recent talk at ODSC East. If you’ve been at ODSC East this year, there’s one acronym that you’ve probably heard in nearly every talk: it’s RAG. RAG is one of the most used techniques to enhance LLMs in production, but why is it so? And what are its weak points? In this post, we will first describe what RAG is and how it works at a high level.

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Sara ZanApr 26, 2024

What a week! #ODSC East 2024 is just over and it's already time to go back home ✈️

In between talks about #LLM, #RAG, and every possible application of them I met a lot of people from universities, startups and big companies, got to see #Spok up close, visited #Boston for the first time and gave my very own first live talk, which was a real blast! 🎉

Thank you to everyone that attended the talk: I can't wait to be back next year 🎙️

#GenAI #AI #Haystack #NLP #ODSCEast

Show threadSara ZanApr 18, 2024

If you're a data scientist and you're interested in RAG, don't miss my talk at ODSC East in Boston next week!

https://odsc.com/speakers/rag-the-bad-parts-and-the-good-building-a-deeper-understanding-of-this-hot-llm-paradigms-weaknesses-strengths-and-limitations/

#Ai #LLM #ODSC #ODSCEast #RAG

RAG, the bad parts (and the good!): building a deeper understanding of this hot LLM paradigm’s weaknesses, strengths, and limitations

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Yuan Tang Feb 22, 2024

Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) is coming!

Hear me speak on Highly Scalable Inference Platform for Models of Any Size in Boston on April 24th!

If you are going to #ODSC this year, let's catch up there!

#ODSCEast #DataScience #MLOps #AI #MachineLearning

Sara ZanJan 31, 2024

It's confirmed: this April I'll be in Boston to speak about #RAG at #ODSCEast 2024! 🎙

I'll talk about RAG's most common use cases, weaknesses and limitations, and see how does this technique compares with other ways of customizing #LLMs such as finetuning. 🔧

The final schedule is going to be public soon, so stay tuned for updates! 📰

https://odsc.com/boston/speakers/#awsm-member-101987-104368

#LLM #ODSC #NLP #Haystack

ODSC East 2024 Speakers

Check out the list of ODSC East 2023 speakers and topics to get more information about the selection of insightful workshops & trainings

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