The please-don’t-sue-us disclaimer: This post is a personal interpretation of a scientific work applied to actual use cases, based on information available online. It is not an intention of the author, to belittle the technological achievements of any company mentioned below. Non-compliance with a definition of AR spread in the scientific community does not make…
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…
A quick Introduction to Jib
Hey guys, last week I stumbled upon an announcement on the Google Cloud Platform. They presented a new open-source tool which aims to ease the containerization of your Java project. Without even reading the whole announcement, I declared it the topic of my next blog post. Well, here it is 🙂 What is Jib? Jib…
My date with Dart and Flutter
Motivation …Hey, guys! It’s time for another blog post from me. This time I want to write about my experiences with Flutter and Dart. Every software developer is regularly confronted with new concepts, frameworks or languages, so am I. I learned to program with Android 2.0. Yes, I’m getting old… Meanwhile, I am not so…
Boostcamp in Berlin – A Field Report
Every season we are attending to a hackathon. This spring we went to one of the biggest in Germany, so they say, the Open Codes Hackathon in Karlsruhe. As one out of ~50 Teams we could choose one competition-category out of three: * Art & Technology, powered by ZKM * IT Brings People Together, powered…
Xamarin: Tabbed Page Navigation
If you have a background in native mobile development and for some reason had to switch to Xamarin, you are probably familiar with that “oh yeah, it doesn’t work this way here” feeling. Having to find new solutions for problems you haven’t even considered to be problems before is what I would call business as…
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…
AI as a Service – a Field Report
In this blog post I describe my experiences with AI services from Microsoft and how we (team Billige Plätze) were able to create hackathon award winning prototypes in roughly 24 hours with them. The post is structured according to the hackathons we participated and used AI services in, as of now (11.06.2018) there are 2…
Analyzing a Telegram Groupchat with Machine Learning using an unsupervised NLP approach
Hey, guys!. When it came to finding a topic for my first blog post, I first thought of another topic… but then I remembered my student research project and thought it was actually fun! The student research project was about NLP (Natural language Processing), maybe I’ll tell you more about it in another blog post….
How to start and learn coding
Every day we learn something new, people say,… and yet; you may end up in a situation you feel it’d only go further in one direction. You know there is so much outside of the box, and somehow you managed to get stuck inside. At least you don’t know how to get out anymore. That’s…