Nick Burch
where else to find them
what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- Berlin Buzzwords8 editions2015–2025
on a stage with
never shared a talk
who talks about the same things
- Jim Jagielski9 talks
- Fabricio Buzeto4 talks
- Rich Bowen29 talks
- Michael Toppa5 talks
- Lorna Jane Mitchell46 talks
- Benjamin Young3 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Self-hosting AI LLMs - a beginners guide | Berlin Buzzwords 2025 | 2025-06-15 |
Finds models on Hugging Face (not GitHub), targets about 1–7B parameters for laptops, and uses 4-5 bit quantization to cut model size ~4x with little quality… | ||
| Monitoring your home, with DevOps observability tools | Berlin Buzzwords 2024 | 2024-06-09 |
Cheap Wi‑Fi and Arduino devices cost about “a beer” each (three for a beer-era price on Arduinos) and battery sensors wake ~every 5 minutes, so data ingestion… | ||
| Laptop-sized ML for Text, with Open Source | Berlin Buzzwords 2023 | 2023-06-18 |
Demonstrates running modern open models locally: LLaMA on a laptop (released in 13–122 GB sizes) and several community forks and tools (OpenLLaMA, MPT… | ||
| Learning about AI/ML for Text, with Wordle! | Berlin Buzzwords 2022 | 2022-06-12 |
Uses Wordle as a concrete text problem and shows working Python code that pulls five‑letter words from the Ubuntu dictionary, scores candidates by letter… | ||
| Taking AI/ML to the next level: Text! | Berlin Buzzwords 2021 | 2021-06-15 |
Builds a concrete pipeline that parses documents with Tika, converts abstracts into TF‑IDF vectors, and uses scikit-learn for a quick classifier and k‑means… | ||
| Building an AI/ML powered text search system | Berlin Buzzwords 2019 | 2019-06-16 |
Takes 294 Berlin Buzzwords talks, extracts text with Apache Tika, turns it into tf-idf vectors (≈30,000 distinct terms), trains a multinomial Naive Bayes… | ||
| Scalably crashing JVMs, or why binary data to content is hard | Berlin Buzzwords 2018 | 2018-06-11 |
Finding what a blob of bytes actually is breaks at scale: retries and speculative re-execution can spin a single bad PDF into a crashed cluster, container… | ||
| Diversity, For Those Playing Life on Easy | ApacheCon North America 2017 | 2017-05-16 |
Uses the “playing life on easy” analogy to show concrete fixes: handle time zones by rotate standups globally or accept asynchronous lists; make onboarding… | ||
| The Apache Way for Business | ApacheCon North America 2017 | 2017-05-16 |
Explains how Apache governance forces individual contributors matter not company control, so businesses must join projects, align roadmaps, and fund… | ||
| Apache Tika - What's New with 2.0? | ApacheCon North America 2017 | 2017-05-16 |
Apache Tika 2.0 doubles down on practical changes: support for many more formats (office, scientific, audio, video, executables), modularized passes to keep… | ||
| What's with the 1s and 0s? Making sense of binary data at scale | Berlin Buzzwords 2015 | 2015-05-31 |
Uses Apache Tika to auto-detect file types, extract metadata and plaintext, and chain Tesseract OCR for images; the distribution ships ~70 format parsers and… | ||
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