The AI training is open for subscription. Details will follow Last update: 28/4/2025 23:45

The course will take place on Saturday, 12 July 2025, at our familiar address, 
the Pascal Café in IJsselstein at Eiteren 36, 3401 CB IJsselstein, near Utrecht, the Netherlands.
To register or participate, please visit this address:
https://www.blaisepascalmagazine.eu/product/Professional_AI_Course

For more explanatory notes, call (mobile): +31 6.21.23.62.68

In just one day, you can learn a local Large Language Model AI.
Training led by Danny Wind (Delphi Specialist)
and Michael van Canneyt (FreePascal & Lazarus Team)
During this day, we will install and deploy a self-hosted open source AI platform, Open Web UI, on your laptop to connect to a local AI LLM, CodeLlama.
We’ll utilize this to investigate the principles and techniques used in an AI LLM.
By the end of the day, you’ll be able to deploy, maintain, expand, and use an AI LLM for yourself.

All of these subjects are addressed, including practice resources.
♦ Open Web UI
♦ CodeLlama LLM
♦ Delphi and Lazarus
♦ LLM REST endpoints
♦ Tokenisation
♦ Vectors
♦ Vector Database
♦ Chunking
♦ Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG)
♦ Agents

Requirements
To participate in the workshop, you will need a laptop with
at least 16 GB of internal memory
at least 64 GB of extra space on an SSD

For the Delphi or Lazarus part,
you will need the most recent version of one of the following:
Delphi 12.3
Lazarus 4.0

Required prior knowledge
some knowledge of Delphi or Lazarus Pascal and Python
some knowledge of your OS (MacOS or Windows)
some knowledge of REST endpoints

Surely an NPU or GPU is needed to run an artificial intelligence LLM?

Running an LLM can benefit from an NPU or GPU indeed, provided it has enough memory to hold the whole model.

Training can also be followed, though, on a sufficiently fast CPU with fast and plenty of memory, and in an emergency there is one NUC on which a local LLM runs that you may also use.

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To register or participate, please visit this address:
https://www.blaisepascalmagazine.eu/product/Professional_AI_Course

Danny Wind from the Delphi Company and Michael van Canneyt from the FPC team are leading the course. Danny will explain the workings and show live how to import new knowledge to the AI, making you understand the ins and outs so you will be able to train your AI. 

The cost for this day is € 150 per participant – no VAT, including coffee,
soft drinks and lunch for all day

Made possible through Stichting Programmeertaal Pascal / Foundation Learning Programming Pascal