2024 Year in Review

HudsonAlpha 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL

We made it through 2024! Well, close enough for this group anyway 🙂 This week we will get together and go through the list of topics and other items that we covered over the year. There are 3 questions that I want to ask for each topic: Did it stick, or was it overcome by other […]

2025 Kickoff

HudsonAlpha 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL

AI for Code Development

HudsonAlpha 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL

It has certainly been a busy few weeks! The first session for LearningQuest (slides linked below) had about 150 people in attendance and went very well. I had several great questions come up that I will have to research before the next session on Thursday. We don’t know exactly what the weather will do this week […]

DeepSeek-R1 and Other Topics

HudsonAlpha 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL

This week we will be back at HudsonAlpha in their classroom. This is a new room for us, which I believe is on the opposite side from the large conference room we have been using. HudsonAlpha Tech Challenge We should have Tyler Clark stop by for a few minutes to discuss some changes to HATCH […]

Virtual Paper Review – Reasoning

Join us virtually this Wednesday at 6pm to kick off our monthly Paper Review series! We will be holding these sessions every 4 weeks on Zoom. The first one will be led by Josh Phillips: This month we will be exploring the current evolution in AI reasoning models. We will start with a short review […]

VIRTUAL ONLY – Deep Research Overview

This week we will have Jack Francis provide an overview of Deep Research: We will explore Google’s Gemini Deep Research, OpenAI’s Deep Research, and Open-Source Deep Research implementations. Deep Research is an LLM agent that uses reasoning to synthesize large amounts of online information and complete multi-step research tasks for you. We’ll dive into the […]

Agentic AI

HudsonAlpha 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL

This week we will go through the AI Agents course offered by HuggingFace. The course consists of 4 units, and the first two have been released so far. This is a self-paced course with a lot of good material and hands-on examples. There’s also a certificate when you finish if you are interested in that. […]