Machine learning lectures – a “downer”!

๐—ก๐—ฎ ๐˜๐—ผ๐—น๐—น – ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ฟ ๐˜€๐—ผ ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐˜ ๐˜ƒ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—น๐—น๐˜, ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—ฟ ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€-๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐—™๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ธ ๐—ฅ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐Ÿ˜‚! One student commented that the current topics and developments (technical, ethical, political, legal, etc.) had always “dragged him down” in many Continue Reading

Programming internship with Chat GPT – Grade 1.0!

๐—œ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ถ๐—บ ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ธ๐˜‚๐—บ ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐—ณ ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ% ๐—ž๐—œ-๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—Ÿ๐—ผฬˆ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐Ÿญ.๐Ÿฌ ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ป! Why? 1. we need to engage with the possibilities of new technologies openly, ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜‚๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ด ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ 2. the student has engineered excellent prompts and used AI Continue Reading

Where has our German engineering gone…?

๐——๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—•๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ณ “๐—š๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—˜๐—ป๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด” ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ณ๐˜‚ฬˆ๐—ฟ ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฒ ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—œ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ธ๐˜‚๐—ป๐˜€๐˜, ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜ ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ด๐˜‚๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฃ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ด, ๐—ณ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ (๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฝ๐˜‚ฬˆ๐—ป๐—ธ๐˜๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ) ๐—จ๐—บ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜‡๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ณ๐˜‚ฬˆ๐—ฟ ๐—Ÿ๐—ผฬˆ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป, ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฒ ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐—ด ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ด๐˜ ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—จ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ต๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ ๐— ๐—ฒ๐—ต๐—ฟ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป. I fear we have forgotten some of this…. In Continue Reading

Studying 50% faster thanks to AI – and what do we learn from this?

“๐˜”๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜’๐˜ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด 50 ๐˜—๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ป๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ, ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ต ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ ๐˜ด๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ, ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฐฬˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ.”– Dr. Sven Schรผtt, CEO of the IU Group, in an interview with McKinsey. ๐——๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—”๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜€๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜ ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต! What on earth does such a notion of Continue Reading

“Stefan, what do you do all day?”

“๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐—ป, ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐˜€๐˜ ๐——๐˜‚ ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜‡๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ง๐—ฎ๐—ด” – ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—ข๐—บ๐—ฎ ๐—ธ๐˜‚ฬˆ๐—ฟ๐˜‡๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต… My grandma is 93 and still pretty fit and curious for her age, but she has about as much to do with what I do Continue Reading

Energy efficiency label for programming?

๐—˜๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐˜‡๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜‡-๐—Ÿ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—น ๐—ณ๐˜‚ฬˆ๐—ฟ ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ป? ๐—œ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—ท๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜‡๐˜ ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฆ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜‡? Let’s think about this for a moment… Programming languages form the foundation for software. We use them to develop interfaces, server applications, apps, processes, interfaces and much more. Both when creating the Continue Reading

Unique or interchangeable?

๐—ช๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐˜ ๐—ฆ๐—ถ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐˜€? ๐—ช๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐˜‚๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐—ฆ๐—ถ๐—ฒ / ๐—œ๐—ต๐—ฟ ๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—บ / ๐—œ๐—ต๐—ฟ ๐—จ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ต๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐˜ƒ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ป? ๐—ช๐—ผ ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—œ๐—ต๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฎฬˆ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ป, ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐˜ “๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—ด”? ๐—ฆ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ถ๐—ฑ ๐—ฆ๐—ถ๐—ฒ / ๐—œ๐—ต๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜‡๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ด? We have to ask ourselves these questions again and Continue Reading