Building and Using LLMs in Ruby

Since Google's Transformer paper Attention is All You Need was published in 2017, research focus on Large Language Models (LLMs) has been intense.

That's also lead to a number of interesting products, and is changing how some programming tasks are done. So: let's look at this through a Ruby lens.

This month we have talks brought to us by the fine people of RubyNess, on the topic of Large Language Models (LLMs).

First up, we have Gavin Morrice, who promises “How to build an LLM from scratch in Ruby”, demonstrating the basic concepts, but in Ruby.
Secondly, we have Sergey Sergyenko, who will talk about how you might use an LLM from a Ruby program.

And finally, bring your laptops! Sergey has an idea and needs some people with their development environment to demonstrate it.

September marked the resumption of ScotRUG in person meetups. It was great to see so many faces new and old! As the light continues to fade from the sky, and thoughts turn to the cooler days of the year, it’s time to look forward to our October meet up. Meetups aren’t all ScotRUG is about, but it is great to talk to folks in person.

If you're coming along for the second time, bring someone new with you!

As usual, we’ll have time to socialise before and after. We’ll confirm the venue next week, and give you the details of our lovely sponsors then too.