Voice User Interface - The New UI

It's amazing how quickly the AI topic develops. In the past few months, I have seens so much new stuff emerging. When I first saw this, I was amazed (happens a lot lately - maybe I am just too easy to motivate ;-). Then I thought: well voice enabled computing isn't new really, I mean all the hotlines do it. So while the Conversion UI basically serves the same purpose as traditional hotline conversation machines, the new thing about  it is really the context based natural language interaction opposed to: request - response that it was in...

Categories: AI, API, Featured, Learn, YouTube

Enterprise Machine Learning in a Nutshell

What I stumbled across a lot lately is the issue of clearly identifying business problems that are applicable to machine learning, especially opposed to traditional programming solutions... The openSAP course "Enterprise Machine Learning in a Nutshell" does an excellent job in exactly that! I will probably dive much deeper into this topic - many of my companies issues in knowledge management seem to be perfectly applicable to machine learning....

Categories: AI, Featured, Learn, SAP

A.I. Experiments

Sometimes I stumble across things that are just jaw dropping. I have read a lot of articles and watched a lot of YouTube videos about AI. Google has great platforms and technology to power this, but what really is fascinating when you find something that steps from behind the glass wall of "me staring at it astonished" to "oh, hi there, let's play". This is what A.I. Experiments is. An experimental Site where you can find an A.I. driven virtual playground. It may seem a little childish at first but then again children grow up really fast and...

Categories: AI, Learn, YouTube

MarI/O - Machine Learning for Video Games

For everybody who want's to get started with the concepts of machine learning in a fun way... As far as I get it, the basic idea to mimic evolutionary or learning based on experience. A computer player in this scenario basically needs: Senses like sight: Abstracting the actual screen to individual items like save ground, blocks/walls, gaps, enemies. Fortunately platforming games like Mario support abstraction really well as sprites can be though of as blocks of the above mentioned types The ability to push buttons on the controller: Well there...

Categories: AI, Article, Learn, YouTube

Software Development on SAP HANA (Update Q4/2016)

Software Development on SAP HANA (Update Q4/2016) In this course, we will focus on the new and improved features that were introduced in SAP HANA SPS 11 and 12. Developers taking this course should be able to get up to speed quickly and begin leveraging these new features to enhance their own productivity, as well… When I just finished up first week's lectures and assignments I must admit I finally feel home. With XSA finally open...

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Google Slides API may power my future Slide Applications

So now Google is publishing its Slides API for programmatic use. This opens up a whole new world of slide generation. This is especially interesting because I have previously been building my own REST Services for a Slide Service that we use for our own SaaS products at SNP Schneider-Neureither & Partner AG - such as the SNP System Scan. Results may look like this and a fully generated using a home-grown REST Service API. open fullscreen in new window As far as the REST API is concerned it takes some slide definition in JSON fomat that...

Categories: API, Article, Framework, Learn, SAP

"Air"wareness

Finally I know at least somewhat where I am in mid air... well most of the time ;-) Trying to get "air"wareness.....

Categories: Personal

ReactCasts Episode 1

I really enjoy generic approaches to common problems. Abstraction - once mastered - makes it easy to dump off mental stress and advan...

Categories: JavaScript, React, YouTube

Semantic Notation – The Next Big Thing in BI?

Semantic Notation – The Next Big Thing in BI? open.sap.com From a methodological viewpoint, the visualization of management information is very similar to visualization in engineering drawings, the visualization of music, and visualizations in many other disciplines such ...

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Immutable User Interfaces (Lee Byron) - Full Stack Fest 2016

Enlightning talk on modern web application achitecture - including a deeper, challenging message. Really you should not miss it...

Categories: Featured, Frontend, Learn, Patterns, YouTube

MobX tutorials - MobX + React is AWESOME

Not that I have tried it yet, but MobX looks like a straight forward alternative, especially for developers, that used to work with classical Model-Classes for a long time. It just seems so familiar. ...

Categories: Featured, Framework, JavaScript, Learn, React, YouTube

GITHUB PULL REQUEST, Branching, Merging & Team Workflow

It's embarassing enough that I don't work with GitHub more than downloading repositories as ZIPs... Oh man, so much more to it... ...

Categories: Learn, Tools, YouTube

Github Tutorial For Beginners - Github Basics for Mac or Windows & Sourc...

Well this one is to get started. Yes and really everyone in the software industry should know source/version control.. ...

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Ryan Florence - ‹Rethinker stop={false}/›

Sometimes it's good to rethink our common practises. I'm not sure if I would apply this to a productive app, but it's worth thinking about the approaches presented. ...

Categories: Featured, Patterns, React, YouTube