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Escaping CUDA Dependency Hell: Why Virtual Machines are the Ultimate Solution for Deep Learning

Managing PyTorch and CUDA versions across multiple projects often leads to ‘dependency hell.’ We explore why standard isolation tools fail and how VM-based solutions provide the ultimate fix for autoVI and other deep learning projects.

Bayer, Schoenenberger

DeepTech Series Part 4: 3D Leadership

Why 3D leadership is essential for DeepTech projects to succeed. The final part of our series on Germany’s DeepTech innovation engine.

Sonja Strothmann

Announcing DIN SPEC 91531: A Digital Standard for Recycled Plastic Packaging

I am proud to announce the official release of DIN SPEC 91531, a project I had the honor of co-initiating alongside colleagues from the Fraunhofer IVV and industry partners.…

Accelerating Time Series Exploration: From Naive Pandas to Polars GPU

At Palaimon, developing autoStreams involves processing massive amounts of time series data. Whether we are identifying rare events in sensor data or aligning high-frequency…

Schoenenberger, Bayer

Choosing the Right Time-Series Architecture: ArcticDB vs. ClickHouse and TimescaleDB

Why serverless DataFrame databases like ArcticDB are the superior choice for initializing real-time streaming in autoStreams compared to traditional OLAP engines.

Schoenenberger, Bayer

Scaling Similarity: The Power of Approximate Nearest Neighbors (ANN)

At Palaimon, our dive into Approximate Nearest Neighbors (ANN) was born out of a real-world engineering challenge while improving autoVI, our automated visual inspection…

Bayer, Schoenenberger

DeepTech Series Part 3: The Alignment Gap

When technical excellence doesn’t find its way to value. Part 3 of our series on Germany’s DeepTech innovation engine.

Sonja Strothmann

DeepTech Series Part 2: The Prototype Wall

When laptop success crashes into hardware reality. Part 2 of our series on Germany’s DeepTech innovation engine.

Sonja Strothmann

New Publication: AI in Pre-Hospital Tele-Emergency Medicine

I am pleased to announce the release of the new book “Künstliche Intelligenz im Einsatz für die erfolgreiche Patientenreise” (Artificial Intelligence in Use for a Successful…

DeepTech Series Part 1: The Lab Trap

Why brilliant research often fails to survive the ‘Real-World Atmosphere’. Part 1 of our series on Germany’s DeepTech innovation engine.

Sonja Strothmann

Bridging Theory and Practice at APPIS 2025: Exploring Sequential Optimal Design

I recently had the pleasure of attending the 7th Applications of Intelligent Systems (APPIS 2025) conference, held at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC).…

Enhancing Python Project Productivity: The Advantages of Mamba for Environment Management

The multitude of Python environment management choices can leave even senior Python developers unsure of the best tool usage. This article describes how Palaimon reduced costs while increase productivity by choosing to use mamba/micromamba for environment management.

PyCon US 2023

We enjoyed the oportunity to share our experience in form of a well received tutorial at PyCon US 2023. Engaging with the larger Python community at this major annual gathering for Python enthusiasts was very inspiring.

Ítalo Epifânio

K fair – all about plastics

In October 2022 we visited again the K fair in Düsseldorf to learn more about the newest trends in the plastics industry and the injection molding process in particular.

CityCount Feasibility Study Completed

With project CityCount we have demonstrated that an AI-based traffic counting of non-motorized traffic participants is feasible in a privacy-aware manner through real-time…

Kick-off KIOptiPack: AI Application Hub Plastic Packaging

Sustainable Circular Economy through Artificial Intelligence

Ipyannotator in The Journal of Open Source Software

In August of 2022, Ipyannotator was published in The Journal of Open Source Software, an important step in promoting the tool in the AI community. In the paper we describe…

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Kick-off KIT² – better medical emergency response with AI

Kick-off meeting for KIT² project to develop better medical emergency response with AI.

Python Nordeste 2022 Recap

From August 26th to August 28th 2022 I attended the Python Nordeste, the biggest Python event in northeast of Brazil. It was the return of in-person conferences in the…

Ítalo Epifânio

EuroSciPy 2022

Palaimon got invited to talk about mathematical optimization involving uncertainty at the EuroSciPy 2022. Beside valuable exchanges with other experts, fascinating new python packages and their application, we gathered other interesting insights and values.

Literate programming with Jupyter notebooks + nbdev + Quarto

The Jupyter notebook development environment is very popular in the scientific Python community. With this tool you can write markdown and code in the same file, which can…

Ítalo Epifânio

Mypy: a static type checker for Python

The current article will show how useful the static code analyzer mypy can be and what problem it solves. For this purpose the concept of duck typing will be used to…

Ítalo Epifânio