Inductive Bias

Visiting Berlin Buzzwords - where to go for drinks and food # There are literally hundreds of bars and restaurants in easy walking distance to the conference venue.

Walking through Berlin # Ever made the mistake of booking a flight to a city and trying to decide on what to do only after you arrived?

Berlin Hadoop Get Together - videos are up # Markus Andrezak on Queue management with Kanban: Queue Management in Product Development with Kanban - enabling flow and fast feedback along the value chain from David Obermann on Vimeo.

Apache Hadoop Get Together - February 2012 # Today the first Hadoop Get Together Berlin 2012 took place - David got the event hosted by and at Axel Springer who kindly also paid for the (soon to be published) videos.

HowTo: Meetups in Berlin # I get that question once in a while - and need the list below myself every now and then: How to actually setup a meetup in Germany.

Happy Valentine # Free Software developers can be very critical: Every single line of code gets scrutinized, every design is reviewed by several often opinionated people.

February 14th: “I love free software day” # This year FSFE is once again running their I love free software campaign on February 14th: The goal they put up is to have more love reports, hugs and Thank You messages sent out than bug reports filed against p…

Note to self - Java heap analysis # As I keep searching for those URLs over and over again linking them here.

Apache Mahout 0.6 released # As of Monday, February 6th a new Apache Mahout version was released.

Clojure in Berlin # Though I had the chance to tinker with some Clojure code only briefly it’s programming model and the resulting compact programs do fascinate me.

February 2012 Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin # The upcoming Apache Hadoop Get-Together is scheduled for 22.

Dorkbot Berlin # c-base - 8p.m. on a Monday evening - the room is packed (and pretty cloudy as well): Time for Dorkbot, a short series of talks on “People doing strange things with electricity” hosted by Frank Rieger.

Scrumtisch Berlin # After quite some time off I went to the Scrumtisch Berlin.

Teddy in Chicago # Last week I spent several days in Chicago mainly to attend a few meetings at the local Nokia/Navteq office.

Scrum done wrong # “Agile and Lean have a single purpose: to continually challenge the status quo.

Reasons for you to visit Berlin Buzzwords # I’ve heard of several people who are not quite sure yet whether they should visit Berlin Buzzwords or not - in particular when having to travel far and cross 9 time zones to attend.

Berlin Buzzwords 2012 - Call for submissions # The countdown started several weeks ago - finally in the past days the date for Berlin Buzzwords was announced, the call for submissions published.

One day later #

Fun little new toy # Yesterday Thilo invited me to attend an “Electronics 101” workshop including an introduction to soldering that was scheduled to start at 7p.m. this evening at the offices of IN-Berlin e.V..

Talking people into submitting patches - results # Back in November I gave a talk at Apache Con NA in Vancouver on talking friends and colleagues into contributing patches to open source projects.

#28c3 # Restate my assumptions.

Learning Machine Learning with Apache Mahout # Once in a while I get questions like Where to start learning more on machine learning.

Berlin Tech Meetups # Berlin currently is of growing interest for software engineers, has a very active startup scene and as a result several community organised meetups.

Video up: Douwe Osinga # Douwe Osinga: Overview of the Data Processing Pipeline at Triposo from David Obermann on Vimeo.

Video: Max Jacob on Pig for NLP # Max Jacob: Pig for Natural Language Processing from Isabel Drost on Vimeo.

Slides online # Slides of this week’s Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin are online at: Douwe Osinga: Overview of the Data Processing Pipeline at Triposo Max Jacob: Pig for Natural Language Processing Overall a great event, well organised - looking forward…

Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin December 2011 # First of all a huge Thank You to David Obermann for organising today’s Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin: After a successful Berlin Buzzwords and a rather long pause following that finally a Christmas meet…

December Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin # First of all please note that meetup organisation is being transitioned over to our xing meetup group.

Apache Con Wrap Up # First things first - slides, audio and abstracts of Apache Con are all online now on their Lanyrd page.

Cloudera in Berlin # Cloudera is hosting another round of trainings in Berlin in November this year.

Being in San Francisco # I spent the last two weeks together with Thilo in San Francisco - and neighboring areas.

Apache Hadoop Get Together - Hand over # Apache Hadoop receives lots of attention from large US corporations who are using the project to scale their data processing pipelines: “Facebook uses Hadoop and Hive extensively to process large data sets. […]” (A…

One Ring to rule them all # One Ring to find them One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them:

Apache Con NA # Title: Apache Con NA Location: Vancouver Link out: Click here Start Date: 2011-11-07<br />End Date: 2011-11-11

See you in Vancouver at Apache Con NA 2011 # Mid November Apache hosts its famous yearly conference - this time in Vancouver/Canada.

GoTo Con AMS - Day 2 # Day two of GoTo Con Amsterdam started with a keynote by former Squeak developer Dan Ingalls.

GoTo Con AMS - Day 1 # Last week GoTo Con took place in Amsterdam.

Dear lazy web: Travel recommendations # Finally getting to spend some days of vacation in the bay area soon - so I thought I might try to leverage the lazy web on recommendations on what not to miss while there.

Night Trains # It was several years ago that a frequent traveller told me about it being more comfortable and time saving to travel mid-sized distances (e.g. from Berlin to Amsterdam) by train - night train that is - instead of flying.

GoTo Con # Location: Amsterdam Link out: Click here Start Date: 2011-10-12 End Date: 2011-10-14 This week late Tuesday night I am going to leave for GoTo con in Amsterdam.

Design Thinking @ Scrumtisch Berlin # This evening Mary Poppendieck gave a presentation on Design Thinking in Berlin.

Talking people into submitting patches # In November I am going to attend Apache Con NA.

Machine learning problem settings # Together with Sebastian Schelter I held a Nokia sponsored (Thank you!)

Apache Mahout Hackathon Berlin # Last year Sebastian Schelter from Berlin was added to the list of committers for Apache Mahout.

Apache Dinner Berlin # Title: Apache Dinner Berlin Location: Good Morning Vietnam X-Berg<br />Start Time: 19:00 Date: 2011-02-28 Please contact Simon Willnauer if you would like to attend for further information.

Note to self: svn:ignore usage # Putting the information here to make retrieving it a bit easier next time.

Berlin Scrumtisch - February 2011 # The February Scrumtisch Berlin featured a talk by Lyssa Adkins, famously known for her publications on Coaching Agile teams.

Video is up: Paolo Negri on scaling by one order of magnitude #

Video is up - Simon Willnauer on Lucene 4 Performance improvements #

Video is up - Josh Devins on Apache Hadoop at Nokia #