In 2023 large language models and generative AI captured many minds - fewer know that the official Go repository included code to train a statistical language model (and to respond to prefixes) since Aug 17, 2011, which is based on chapter 3.1 from The Practice of Programming (1999), which in turn took inspiration from Dewdney, A. K. (1989), COMPUTER RECREATIONS. Scientific American, 260(6), 122–125 (the trace continues further to Shannon, 1951 and Markov, 1913)
What else happened?
- we organized six events in 2023 and grew from 495 to 577 members
- we covered Go 1.20 in #34 and kept discussing new developments (like slog, enhanced ServeMux routing, …) in Go throughout the year
- we collaborated with cloud startup encore.dev for #36 (recording) and CHECK24, which was a wonderful meetup host for #38 - thanks for your contributions!
- we participated in Chemnitz Linux Days and did a presentation on Sustainability and security in the Go ecosystem
- AI sneaked into our events in #35 and #38 where we used C/GO to interface with ggml and tried out ollama, respectively - a total of four (here and here) computer-generated haikus have been recorded (we used CPUs and local models only)
- we brought together people from various backgrounds and hope to do more of that in 2024 (if you have an idea for a presentation for one of our meetups, please let us know)
Thanks everyone for joining, we hope to see you again in 2024!
