Welcome to the blog of Londogard.com!🥳

Read more about the contributors at londogard.com/about. Our blogs can cover virtually anything but you’ll find a bigger focus on Machine Learning, especially NLP, and the JVM / Kotlin. Another area of interest is efficiency, meaning that most of what we do actually runs on a Raspberry Pi at the end.

Blogs & Today-I-Learned (TILs)

• Seam Carving (Presentation & Workshop)

  Seam Carving is the task to remove empty room in a image. Have you ever wished to do 'Content Aware Scaling'? Learn it now!

  May 17, 2021

• Knowledge Distillation (Presentation)

  What is Knowledge Distillation? How can this allow us to further utilize models and increase efficiency manifold?

  Apr 18, 2021

• TIL: GitHub Pages + Progressive Web App (PWA) = ❤️

  What are PWAs? How do I create or transform my web app into one? How can I deploy them (freely) via GitHub Pages?

  Apr 11, 2021

• Building a Swedish Named Entity Recognition (NER) model (Flair/Huggingface)

  Learn how to fine-tune a Flair NER model and quantize a BERT model from Huggingface to achieve SotA performance & a much more efficient model.

  Mar 29, 2021

• When to use what - RegExp, String Replace & Character Replace (JVM/Kotlin)

  A simple quick comparison on which method to use and in what case when replacing characters or strings in strings.

  Mar 17, 2021

• Transformers From Scratch

  In this post I walk through Self-Attention Transformers from scratch with demos at the end for Text Classification & Generation, where the PyTorch-code is wrapped by fast.ai to simplify end-2-end.

  Feb 18, 2021

• TIL: GitPod - your editor in the cloud

  GitPod is a Cloud IDE where you can run everything from Kotlin to Python/JS. In this TIL how to launch native programs and more is shown in the GitPod IDE.

  Jan 21, 2021

• Object Detection (Workshop)

  How to do object detection using Transformers?

  Dec 16, 2020

• Transfer Learning (Presentation)

  What is Transfer Learning? Can I have the cake and eat it too?

  Dec 12, 2020

• How to build and play Snake via Native Binary, JVM and JS/Browser (Kotlin)

  A three part blog (all included in this one) that goes through 1) How Kotlin Multiplatform works, 2) How to build a game (Snake) and finally 3) how to make it multiplatform.

  Nov 7, 2020

• TIL: SDKMan - The Software Development Kit Manager

  SDKMan is a tool to make JDK swapping, and installation, simple. It's really good!

  Sep 4, 2020

• TIL: fastutil - fast & compact type-speciic collections for JVM (no autobox!)

  Discusses what autoboxing is, why it might hit your performance (and memory). Finally some alternatives are also provided. Learn how to use effective data collections today!

  Sep 3, 2020

• TIL: 'The Badass Runtime Plugin', jpackage & jlink - create a 'native' installable executable from your JVM-app that isn't huge

  'The Badass Runtime Plugin' is a plugin that allows you to package a stripped down JRE and modules from your program into a 'native' installable program which doesn't require the user to have Java installed. It takes help of JPackage & JLink to achieve this, my own small program ended up at 35 MB including JRE, which is pretty crazy. This is like Electron, but better! ;)

  Sep 3, 2020

• CoViD-19 FAQ Search Engine 2.0

  In this post I improve the previous FAQ search engine by some low hanging fruits. The requirements stay the same thus SotA is not achieved but rather it's simply generic & easy on hardware (Raspberry Pi capable).

  Aug 1, 2020

• SQL - Different Abstraction Levels (& how I came to love SQLDelight)

  In this post different abstraction levels of SQL is discussed with the final SQLDelight which turns the abstraction into the reverse.

  Jun 1, 2020