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conference

125 #opensourceai

Today at BFH in Bern, the Open Source AI Conference 2026 brings us together to share insights, perspectives, and practical experiences.

hackathon Featured

124 #hackathons #diversity

The effectiveness of civic hackdays depends crucially on how teams are formed. Can diversity be promoted through better support? See what science has to say.

conference

123 #winterkongress

Some impressions and my slides from this year's winter congress of the Swiss Digital Society, at the Rote Fabrik in Zurich.

appliedml Featured

122 #amld2026

Notes from the Intelligence Summit (AMLD 2026) in Lausanne.

apertus Featured

121 #opensourcellm

My notes from the Open-Source LLM Builders Summit in Lausanne.

apertus

120 #ailights #spiu

A talk on Apertus, Public AI, and a cooperative proposed to connect the two.

apertus

119 #apertus #mlx

Getting started with local AI: running Apertus with LM Studio on Apple MLX, with thoughts on the Why, What, and How.

apertus

118 #apertus #nova 🅰️👁️

An experiment in auto-generating a creative response to a blog post. This text was composed by artificial intelligence under the careful watch of @loleg

demoscene

117 #enter #apple

A winter weekend retro nostalgia, with a few pixellated impressions from a visit to the museum of computing and automotive history in Solothurn.

robotics

116 #reachy #assembly

Unboxing, assembly, and initial impressions of the Reachy Mini desktop robot.

apertus Featured

115 #apertus #snai

Notes from the first and second editions of the Swiss AI SME Circle: at the AI+X Summit in October and Altstetten yesterday.

conference

114 #dinacon #hacknight

My highlights from DINAcon 2025, the annual Swiss conference for Digital Sustainability in Bern.

hackathon

113 #crisis #hackathon

Don't let a good crisis go un:hacked

hackathon

111 #swissaiweeks #bern

How to be in the right place, with the right people, at the right time ✨ A summary of the Swiss {ai} Weeks hackathon in Liebefeld.

apertus

110 #apertus #instruere

Learn about my initial experiences working with the Apertus Large Language Model during the Swiss {ai} Weeks, with advice on getting started yourself.

events

109 #swissaiweeks #siliconlovefield

A whirlwind of activities generated (no pun intended) by the Swiss {ai} Weeks in Bern.

coding

108 #genai #declared

A brief discussion on how to highlight code commits and other GenAI artifacts at hackathons.

apertus

107 #apertus #diesnullus

Some historical notes on a growing disquiet/interest in GPTs as a prequel to the Apertus launch this week. Includes a funky man-machine interview.

hackathon

106 #datahackdays #bern

Look back at the Data Hackdays BE, with a case study of the Bern in Minecraft team, and look ahead to further hackathons and ways to Build on this foundation.

conference

105 #docling #workflow

Notes from a workshop session at the Open Source AI Conference at BFH in Bern on May 9, 2025, organised by CH Open.

conference

104 #opensource #ai

Notes from the Open Source AI Conference, organized by CH Open and BFH IPST on May 7, 2025.

hackathon

112 #hackathons #pathways

Overview of the HackIntegration project, republished from BFH SocietyByte magazine.

opendata

103 #meta #data

Cross-post of my discussion with Philip Heltweg in November 2024. You can find the original article at heltweg.org under Meta Data: a series of interviews with the people behind open data. As long-form transcripts, they are best enjoyed in a quiet hour with your favorite hot beverage. If you

coding

102 #documentathon

Notes from a CH Open workshop with SimplexaCode on the art and science of technical writing.

hackathon

101 #postaldata

Diving again into the data science of global deliveries and postal services at the Universal Postal Union.