CAIML #35 Meetup Cologne The 35th community meetup of Cologne AI ML (CAIML) took place on March 18th at Publicis Sapient in downtown Cologne. We were pleased to welcome about 50 AI ML enthusiasts at the second CAIML meetup this year and to spend an evening full of interesting talks and inspiring discussions with…
The year 2024 in spotlights As the year draws to a close, it is time to look back and reflect on the past year. In 2024, we were very active and carried out various projects, both with our clients and in the open source community. Below, we have put together an overview of some…
FrOSCon 2024 Free software and open source were the topics of the 19th FrOSCon, which takes place every late summer at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences. The program offered visitors around 100 lectures and workshops on the topic of open source. 19th Free & Open Source Conference This year’s FrOSCon program was again very extensive,…
Evening of Generative AI Language models, Haystack & brushstrokes Program A varied program with two exciting talks awaited us at the inovex office in Cologne. The first talk was about the development of applications using the Haystack framework, the ease and flexibility of integrating state-of-the-art language models into projects. The second presentation dealt playfully…
Future Skills for the DeepTech Industry ReDI School is a non-profit school for locals, newcomers and underprivileged communities without access to digital education. Thanks to the support of more than 500 volunteers each year, we empower tech-interested learners by providing them with free courses in different digital topics and supporting them through soft skills…
GitHub repositories We make our program codes and numerical simulation models (FEM, CFD) that we have developed over time available to the public in the sense of open source collaboration. We have also compiled the experimental measurements of our relevant scientific work as Open Data. | Open Source | Open Data | Open Access…
Chat with the Inventor of FORTH Charles H. Moore was our guest for our monthly Forth2020 Zoom meeting which was held on October 9, 2021. It was a great event and Charles was very generous with his time. He fielded questions about everything from inventing Forth in 1969 on the IBM 1130 through to…
PyTorch Opacus: Deep Learning with Differential Privacy CAIML #15 was an online meeting and took place on November 10. We had an excellent presentation by Kritika and a question & answer session, followed by an interactive networking session. Speaker Kritika Prakash – linkedin.com/in/kritika-prakash “A talk on how to train PyTorch models with differential privacy…
Virtual PythonCamp Cologne After 10 years of Python barcamp in Cologne the 11th PythonCamp is just around the corner … but unfortunately only virtually due to the current corona crisis. “The PythonCamp Cologne is especially appreciated by all of us for networking and personal exchange and we also regret not being able to offer…
Special on Transformer Models for Natural Language Processing “Transformer models and the recent BERT algorithm overcome a lot of issues of the Word2Vec / LSTM approach. These new models improve context awareness and ambiguity resolution. Google recently announced that about 10 % of English search queries will be processed by these new algorithms.” Transformer Models…