# IVF Projects at AI Tinkerers

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The premier assisted reproductive technology: a laboratory process where eggs are fertilized by sperm outside the body to overcome complex infertility.

IVF follows a rigorous five-step protocol: ovarian stimulation, egg retrieval, fertilization, embryo culture, and transfer. Since the 1978 birth of Louise Brown, the field has integrated advanced tools like ICSI (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection) to treat male-factor infertility and PGT (Preimplantation Genetic Testing) to screen for chromosomal health. Success rates for patients under 35 now average 50% or higher per cycle. Clinicians use this method to bypass structural issues (blocked fallopian tubes) or biological hurdles (endometriosis) with high clinical efficiency.

- Official technology site: https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/in-vitro-fertilization/about/pac-20384716
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 1
- Result page: 1 of 1

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### [EmergentDB: How Evolutionary Algorithms Made My Vector Database 82x Faster](https://singapore.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_hHLd9-vXn8A)

Vector databases power semantic search, RAG, and recommendation systems—but tuning them is a nightmare. Should HNSW use M=8 or M=32? What's the right ef_construction value? Most teams guess and pray. EmergentDB solves this through evolutionary computation. Instead of manual tuning, it uses the MAP-Elites algorithm to evolve the optimal index configuration for your specific workload. The system maintains a "quality-diversity grid" that explores the trade-off space between recall, latency, and memory—automatically selecting between HNSW, Flat, and IVF indices with evolved hyperparameters.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers - The Age of AI & Infrastructure (Singapore) — 2026-02-11 — Singapore
- Public talk page: https://singapore.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_hHLd9-vXn8A

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