According to its official documents, Jenetics is a library that is used for programming evolutionary algorithms written in Java. Jenetics is implemented using the Java Stream interface, so it works smoothly with the rest of the Java Stream API. Evolutionary algorithms have their roots in biology, as they use mechanisms inspired by biological evolution, such…
Author: Dominik Jülg

Regolith Quickstart: Creating a Custom-Theme
This post is intended for beginners of i3 or more specifically Regolith. Since i3 is just a window-manager and not a fully fletched desktop environment you might have encountered some issues using a pure version of i3. Regolith is a modern desktop environment that saves you time by reducing the clutter and ceremony that stand…

Sophisticated Google container structure tests
Last week we did an innovation week at our company, crowding up together and trying to figure out what can be done to improve our systems. Our group chose to setup a private docker registry and to automate the creation of docker images for our test-system. After some research we came up with Google’s framework…

Clean Code: The hard facts and figures
A couple of weeks ago I began to read Uncle Bob’s old developer bible: Clean Code. I was excited about the presented concepts and put a lot of thought into applying them into code. One day I was lying on the couch of our office, reading Chapter 2: Meaningful Names. Meanwhile, I overheard our team…

Explore the Unexplored! (Tech world)
Autumn is coming. This is the time when I like to grab a cup of hot tea and crawl under a warm blanket with my laptop. As a developer, it’s a good time to broaden your horizons with new knowledge. I want to motivate you to use that time as well to explore the tech…

Quickstart: Get ready for 3rd Spoken CALL Shared Task
These days is Interspeech conference 2018 where I’m invited as a speaker and as they write on their website… Interspeech is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. Coming Wednesday the results and systems of 2nd Spoken CALL Shared Task (ST2) are presented and discussed in…

Rasa Core & NLU: Conversational AI for dummies
AI is a sought-after topic, but most developers face two hurdles that prevent them from programming anything with it. It is a complex field in which a lot of experience is needed to achieve good results Although there are good network topologies and models for a problem, there is often a lack of training data…

Getting Started with Telegrams AbilityBot
This getting started is for developers who want to create a telegram chatbot with Java. There are many articles on the internet explaining how to create a chatbot based on the so-called LongPollingBot. But development works much faster and easier with the AbilityBot, which will be our topic for today. In the course of the…