Event details
Thursday, March 5th 2026
11:45 AM—01:00 PM
| Available to | Stanford Students |
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Join the AI Tinkery for a workshop on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and a pizza lunch.
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You’ll build your own mini RAG project using our custom platform:
- Upload PDFs
- Toggle embedding types (TF-IDF, Bag of Words, Binary)
- Ask questions
We’ll unpack what’s happening behind the scenes (embeddings, retrieval, prompting — but won’t go to technical details!) and discuss trade-offs like reduced creativity and document dependence.
We have limited space — please reserve your spot only if you plan to attend in person.