Double Header with Doug Reeder and Guy Royse

This month we have a double-header with Doug Reeder and Guy Royse!

Join the Cool Kids — If You're Allowed! The Web Share APIs
Doug Reeder

The Web Share API and Web Share Target API allow your web app to send and receive content from native apps, like the big social networking apps. But can these APIs meet your needs?

Doug Reeder has been programming professionally for a quarter century on a wide range of technologies, at organizations large and small. Today he does full-stack web development, consults on WebXR, and pushes back on gatekeepers.

Finding Bigfoot with JavaScript + Vector Search
Guy Royse

I've written a rather silly thing using AI and JavaScript that finds Bigfoot using Semantic Search. In this session I'll show it to you!

I'll show you the code I used to trigger the Semantic Search. Not sure what Semantic Search is? Well, it uses embeddings to search for what you intended as opposed to keywords. This lets it understand the context of your request. Not sure what embeddings are? An embedding is a very carefully constructed vector created using an AI model. How can vectors do that? Guess you're gonna have to come and find out!

If that's not enough, I'm using buzzwords like LLM, LangChain, Hugging Face, Redis, and Vector Database. So you better come and learn what all that stuff is too!

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As always, thanks to Improving for the pizza, the place, and the beer.