Author Archives - Patrick Gebert

A Nordic Adventure

Norway, a land of fjords, glaciers, and the Northern Lights, is a paradise for those seeking wild and pure nature. I had long dreamed of a Scandinavian road trip, and this summer, we finally made it happen. Our journey took us through Denmark and up the western coast of Norway, where we explored the country’s…

Sri Lanka Surf & Soul

Sri Lanka, a teardrop-shaped island off the southern coast of India, is a tropical paradise brimming with natural beauty, rich cultural heritage, and warm-hearted people. We were fortunate to join our friends, Jana and Patrick, on their year-long Asian adventure, spending a few weeks exploring this enchanting country together. We immersed ourselves in Sri Lanka’s…

Asturian Coastal Escape

The rugged mountains and picturesque beaches of Galicia and Asturias had always been a place of yearning for Luca. With Northern Spain being highly recommended for climbing, the region seemed like the perfect combination of surfing and climbing. We embarked on a thrilling road trip along the Atlantic coast, starting in Moliets-et-Maa, France, and winding…

Language models for your own data

Language models such as GPT, chatGPT, LLaMa, Bard and Alpaca are the focus of everyone’s attention and are incredibly fascinating – they provide surprisingly accurate answers to all kinds of questions, complete texts, formulate emails or summarise presentations and documents. Wouldn’t it be nice to use them on your own data?

MockServer in less than 2 minutes

For the development of applications, it can be very useful to provide an API via a local web server delivering predefined data. Especially for testing and rapid prototyping, it is highly recommended to use a mocked API instead of requesting a production system. Today I will show you how to create a local mock server…

Back to Céüse

The sight of the impressive rock face of Céüse in the French département of Hautes-Alpes makes every climber’s heart beat faster. The rock face is several kilometres long, rises up to 200m and offers an endless ampunt of outstanding routes. It is not for nothing that Céüse is one of the most famous climbing spots…

Parallelisation in Python with Joblib

In all computationally intensive tasks, sooner or later, the topic of parallelisation comes into focus. Python offers a variety of ways to achieve this – all with strengths but also weaknesses. In the following, I want to present some approaches with a focus on one framework: joblib. It allows the parallelisation and reusability of intermediate…

Visualisation with Python

Do you want to get quick insights from a large dataset? Just use Python – it has all the tools you need to load, transform and visualise complex data with just a few lines of code. This post will show you how you can quickly create a professional visualisation from your data using Pandas and…