So is there anything Apertus isn't good at?

Hint: This image is supposed to be a pelican riding a bicycle (kudos to @simon for a pretty intricate model code-writing test).

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So stop ripping the web apart with your crawlers and git gud at using the data you have.

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So do LLMs work without stolen data?

You bet they do!

It actually does way better than most other models on international cultural knowledge!

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Next up, a talk by Anna Herlihy of LAMP and DIAS about macro-free type-safe database queries.

Having refactored my fair share of bindings to NoSQL DBs, I am definitely looking forwards to understanding better how to create universal interfaces that cover both NoSQL query languages and SQL!

#ScalaDays #ScalaDays2025 #Scala

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Interesting talk by Muayad Sayed Ali of WRITER on the GenAI in Entreprise:

1. Obstacles to GenML adoption in the company

2. Why use Scala in LLM serving stack rather than Python

#ScalaDays #ScalaDays2025 #Scala

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In the afternoon, Kannupriya Kalra and
Rory Graves will talk about building the cool stuff in Scala using LLMs4S, focusing on building LLM applications based on Scala.

#ScalaDays #ScalaDays2025 #Scala

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Immediate after me, Krzysztof Romanowski will give a talk on the relationship between Scala, AI and productivity, at all stages of a software project

#ScalaDays #ScalaDays2025 #Scala

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