[CCD Pre-Event] Where is the Meaning?

We’ll begin with text and follow its journey through tokens, vectors, and contextual representations. Through practical experiments, you’ll discover how embeddings capture relationships between words and sentences, how semantic search works, and why vector similarity sometimes produces surprising or incorrect results. Rather than treating embeddings as magic, we’ll build an intuitive understanding of the ideas that power many modern AI applications. What You Can Expect From Text to Vectors: Understand how token IDs become embedding vectors and how context changes their meaning. The Geometry of Meaning: Explore vector spaces, cosine similarity, clustering, and contextual representations. Semantic Search and Retrieval: Build the foundations of a semantic search system. Breaking Embeddings: Examine failure cases involving negation, numbers, versions, identifiers, and exact terminology. Hands-on Experiments: Predict results, run code, investigate surprises, and find the limitations yourself. Event Details 🗓 Date: Sunday, September 27, 2026 ⏰ Time: To be announced 📍 Venue: To be announced 💻 What to bring: Your laptop and charger No prior expertise in machine learning or natural language processing is required. Whether you’re beginning your AI journey or already building with language models, bring your curiosity and leave with a clearer mental model of how machines represent and retrieve meaning. Come find out where the meaning really is. 🚀 Please note: Filling out the registration form does not guarantee a seat. Since capacity is limited, selected participants will receive a separate confirmation email before the event. Only participants with confirmation will be permitted to attend. By submitting the form, you consent to sharing your information with the event organizers.