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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 evaluation directly on the edge device.

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.

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 the ‘statement of need’ and the overall architecture of the solution.

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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 country. Focused on the communities, the event slogan was “People > Technology”.

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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 increase the readability of the program. This paradigm is known as literate programming.

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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 illustrate how type hints can be a great addition to a dynamic language and how mypy can increase code accuracy. The current article is divided into the following sections:

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