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A 10+ year journey of building and continuously evolving a smart cat flap system - from basic Raspberry Pi sensors to machine learning, Home Assistant integration, and reverse-engineered hardware. A tale of persistence, over-engineering, and why some projects never get boring.
Deep reinforcement learning AI achieves competitive esports lap times in Need for Speed Most Wanted using reverse-engineered game memory and a custom training environment, running on 10-year-old consumer hardware in just 24 hours of training.
Google engineer Christoph Mittendorf demonstrates AI use cases at Munich Datageeks: Like Lederhosen trend prediction using search data, running form analysis against Eliud Kipchoge, and Genie 3 open world models for gaming and robotics applications.
Karim built a bot testing housing applications in Munich. Western names got 4x more responses. Nationwide tests confirmed systemic bias. A decade later, he warns modern AI has made algorithmic discrimination far more sophisticated and opaque.
Fine-Tuning Language Models: When to customise Language Models for better performance by Laurens Tetzlaff from Netlight presented at Munich Datageeks - September Edition 2025. Abstract This talk covers how LLMs changed the way we do and see Data Science, a decision matrix on when to consider what type of GenAI
