

Elixir Meetup
Come hang with the NYC Elixir community in Dumbo for an evening of talks, food/drinks, and meeting other people building (or learning) Elixir.
What to expect
Food + drinks (thanks to Jump.ai for sponsoring)
Quick intros + community announcements
Two talks (15 min each) + Q&A
Migrate to 68 Jay Street Bar @ 8:30 PM
Talk 1:
Binary Protocols and Formats with Binary Pattern Matching
Dan will cover some basics of binary pattern matching, then walk through writing a binary parser for a specification step by step. For the grand finale, Dan will write a new format of their own that does something quite useful.
Speaker: Dan Janowski
Time: (6:45pm - 7:15pm)
Talk 2
Addressing Semantical Laps
The retrieval failure mode that makes RAG systems degrade and produce confidently wrong answers as your corpus grows. A walk through of the the architectural pattern built at Runlog to solve this problem.
Speaker: Vatsal Trivedi
Time: 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Sponsors
Jump
Jump.ai automates mountains of administrative work to empower financial advisors do what they do best: build relationships with clients to ensure they get where they want to go.
FABRIK
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Important entry note (email required)
Email address needed for building entry: Please ensure your email is included on the registration. If you are not sure, just include in registration notes.
Day-of: please check your phone for an email containing a QR code—you’ll need it to get in.