Welcome to the 20th edition of Smartspaces!

Re-learning or diving into something new? (we have something for you :))

Hi everyone! This is Smartspaces 20th newsletter 🥳 

We hope we’ve helped encourage you to explore a new topic, dive deep into a field of interest and generally, learn something new.

Finding new talks and events each week (+ the data from our frequent poll responses) has made us consider deliberately what kind of talks we should 1) look for and 2) share on smrtspace.xyz. What talks do you want to hear? Mostly we were considering readers in two main scenarios: 1) those who want to discover a ‘brand new’ topic or 2) to gain more expertise in their existing field of work/study/interest.

I came across a great blog post that made me really interested and excited about another likely segment of curious Smartspaces readers (see extensive HN discussion). In this essay, Gabe Mays shares his journey re-learning math on Math Academy.

Mays, founder of an AI startup, mentions his desire to start re-learning math stems from his desire to more deeply understand the machine learning concepts he’s working with (namely LLMs & transformers) that require a solid mathematical foundation.

What are the subjects that you want to go back to? Maybe an elective you took once or a hobby subject that you stopped having time for…

Perhaps a talk on Smartspaces can be the spark to get you back into it! ✨ 

What did I miss last week? (lots of AI)

Catch up with recordings of last week’s top events at your own pace!

Decode, Detect, Diagnose LLMs: User Behavior Changes & Performance Drift - with Bernease Herman ⭐️

Aligning LLMs with Direct Preference Optimization - with Lewis Tunstall & Edward Beeching

Fix Hallucinations in RAG Systems with Pinecone and Galileo - with Quique Lores & Roie Schwaber-Cohen

Quantum Computing in ML: Navigating Potential, Understanding Limitations - with Dr. Vicente Leyton-Ortega

Midjourney, Dall-E and The Future of AI Image Generation - with Leonard Rodman

Looking for something else? 👉 100s of recordings in our Full recordings database 

Next week’s top 3 events 🌟 
_{The best events and why they matter!}