AI is a sought-after topic, but most developers face two hurdles that prevent them from programming anything with it. It is a complex field in which a lot of experience is needed to achieve good results Although there are good network topologies and models for a problem, there is often a lack of training data (corpora) without which most neural … Read More
Meet The CraftCodeCrew
This blog began in 2018, created by a group of students from DHBW (Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg) in Karlsruhe, Germany. At the time, we were all employed at major German enterprises, spending half our time on-site and the other half in university.
Originally called Billige Plätze (Cheap Seats) due to our habit of sitting in the back row of the classroom, the blog was soon renamed to CraftCodeCrew. After graduating in 2018, we pursued different career paths, and in 2020, three of us came together to found CraftCoders.
Please note that the older posts were written in our early 20s by non-native English speakers. You may notice some youthful tone and minor language errors. We've chosen to keep these articles as they were originally written. We hope you enjoy reading them!
Getting Started with Telegrams AbilityBot
This getting started is for developers who want to create a telegram chatbot with Java. There are many articles on the internet explaining how to create a chatbot based on the so-called LongPollingBot. But development works much faster and easier with the AbilityBot, which will be our topic for today. In the course of the article we are going to … Read More
AI as a Service – a Field Report
In this blog post I describe my experiences with AI services from Microsoft and how we (team Billige Plätze) were able to create hackathon award winning prototypes in roughly 24 hours with them. The post is structured according to the hackathons we participated and used AI services in, as of now (11.06.2018) there are 2 hackathons where we used AI … Read More