Hi. I'm Peter Bouda.

Working on Free and Open Source AI projects. Book me to train your team in AI. The rest is biking.

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Book me for onsite and online AI trainings.

I work since more than 20 years as a developer, product manager and AI lead with language technologies.
Starting with speech recognition and machine translation I now focus on education in semantic technologies and LLMs.
Online or in-house trainings within Europe
All workshops in English or German
Full days or half days
Content and schedule adapted to your needs

Intro to LLMs and RAG

Learn the basics of language models and how to build a question-answering system for your own content.

2 days or 4 half days

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AI Prompt Engineering

Learn how to influence the behavior of large language models and to fine-tune LLM-based solutions to a target task.

1 half day

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Here's some stuff I made recently.

Discourse SCIM

SCIM plugin for
Discourse forum application.
#Rails #SCIM #Python

RegTech

Lead of AI projects with LLMs
for Regulatory Compliance Technology
#Spacy #LLM #AI #Azure

Rasa Chatbots

Rasa chatbots and NLP
at a DAX company
#Rasa #Spacy #AI #Python

Poio

Open Source Technology
for Language Diversity.
#Python #Flask #NLP

Freuden|Tanz

Web-based interactive installation
by Stephan Jürgens.
#JavaScript #three.js

PyQt book

GUI- und Anwendungsentwicklung
mit Python und Qt.
#Python #PyQt

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Major progress in AI!

  File "/data/home/pbouda/yolov3/utils/utils.py", line 45, in load_classes
    names = f.read().split('\n')
  File "/data/anaconda/envs/py35/lib/python3.5/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
    return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc4 in position 157 …
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Going to the moon by building towers

This article was published on Hacker News today, a good overview and criticism of the current hype around NLP and speech-to-text in general. I like this comparison:

Stable production-grade NLP models usually are built upon data which is several orders of magnitude larger or the task at hand should be …

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Send me a message and I will get back to you.

pbouda@outlook.com
+351 917403181
Lisbon, Portugal