Johannes
@johko.bsky.social
Data Scientist | Computer Vision Engineer | AI Educator | Hugging Face Fellow 🤗 // johko.github.io //
I like to believe that in a few hundred years the people will look back at the financial elite of our time, the same as we look back at kings and rulers of the medieval times. Not all are doing bad, but the power they are wielding is just insane and in no way justified.
At least AI thinks my talks are popular 😉: "Robot Holmes" is a popular, story-driven tech talk series at EuroPython created by data scientist Johannes Kolbe. It teaches real-world ML, Computer Vision, and Voice AI concepts using engaging, noir-style murder mysteries set in the city of "MLington"
I'm thrilled to be back at EuroPython this year and present a new case for Robot Holmes 😉
EuroPython 2026, Kraków@europython.eu · 2mo agoJoin Johannes Kolbe (@johko.bsky.social) at EuroPython for "Robot Holmes and the Silenced Witness: A Noir Guide to Real-Time Voice AI" talk: ep2026.europython.eu/LFSJYL
It was a pleasure to speak at #bbuz. I loved the overall vibe and met amazing people. Thanks for the photo @autosysops.bsky.social :)
Leo Visser@autosysops.bsky.social · 2mo agoTime for Johannes Kolbe at #bbuzz to talk about #WebAI and how to escape the #Server and run your #AI in the browser!
LLM Blind Date One prompt, three answers - which model is from where? huggingface.co/spaces/johko... I built a little demo where you give three models (Apertus, Llama, Qwen3) the same prompt and in the end you have to guess which is which just based on their answers. GIve it a try! ;)
Llm Blind Date - a Hugging Face Space by johko
3 LLMs - guess which is from the US, Europe or China
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Johannes Kolbe (@johko.bsky.social) is joining #bbuzz26 to investigate Client-Side AI using WebGPU, ONNX Runtime, and Transformers.js and will explore the reality of hardware access, model size, and the 2026 trade-offs of browser based execution. Learn about this session 2026.berlinbuzzwords...
PhD level intelligence they said. Not for German quotation marks it seems 🙈
Gave my first ever lecture today and boy did I overestimate the motivation of the students 😅
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I still don't get why in Python it is: ", ".join(list) instead of list.join(", ") Every time I see it, it just feels wrong
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I have the feeling that we're running into some big issues with the way we are throwing AI into products and neglecting a lot of software engineering best practices. The tech debt we are creating these days will eat min. double the working hours we are saving by not thinking things through.
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Book Sunday: Sometimes I wonder if my first edition of Aurélien Géron's fantastic book will be worth something someday 😉
My reaction, every time my (storytelling) talk proposals are refused by Python conferences
What are some ethically good (or at least okay) smartphones on the market at the moment that also perform well? The random crashes of my phone are getting a bit out of hand lately 🙃 I can live with @fairphone.com and Shift phones, just wondering if there are any others I'm missing.
It is unusually cold and icy in Germany since the beginning of the year. Yet I'm still baffled at the inability of most cities to clear sidewalks for people's safety for weeks now. In Berlin the hospitals are even complaining about an alarming amount of people coming in because they slipped on ice.
Feels like Moltbook is yet another proof that humans like to be insulting, especially if they can hide behind something like agents and say "it wasn't me that said it, it was the AI"
I love the field of Web AI! Models running in your browser can solve so many problems about API based approaches and you can build fun things with it already, e.g. this little physics playground powered by functon-gemma: huggingface.co/spaces/webml...
FunctionGemma Physics Playground - a Hugging Face Space by webml-community
Use natural language to solve fun physics simulation puzzles
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Sundays are (still) for books. Currently going through this one and it reminds me that you never can imagine the horrors of war until you are in one.
In the unlikely case of ever creating an AGI model, I still feel that it would either just dump all tasks back on us humans or be like Marvin from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (or both)
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1. I love to write! 2. I get a lot of satisfaction from putting words in a nice order. 3. I lack the time to do proper writing. 4. I turn to AI to create a nice, smooth text in a short time. 5. The satisfaction I get from it is much lower. 6. I like writing less. A vicious cycle 😞
Heute vor 81 Jahren wurde das Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager Auschwitz befreit. Der Lagerkomplex Auschwitz ist heute Symbol für den industriellen Massenmord des #Holocaust und damit der systematischen Vernichtung der europäischen Juden. #WeRemember 1/x
Okay so my plan was to do a week straight of casual, not very controversial posting here to see how this goes and get into a flow. But ffs US, get your shit together. At the rate this shit show is going I don't see me entering that country any time in the next 3 years (and probably beyond).
Non-parents will probably never know the struggle with kids on weekends 🙈 And Saturday usually is the easy day for us. Can we just skip Sunday maybe?
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Any hacks on actually finishing a side project? I feel like whenever I get to the point of creating a repo with some structure, a new project idea comes around and feels way more interesting than what I'm working on.
So with all the downskilling articles these days and in fear of my own forgetfulness, I decided it is time I start to only use the command line for git from today. I realize I forgot way too much since uni days 🙈
I can't shake the feeling that something is different in the AI world over the last weeks. Feels like no gigantic hyped up shit has been going on, which makes me wonder if AI-Hype-companies (especially OpenAI) are running out of material or preparing an even bigger ugly bag of surreal marketing.