Stefan Michaelis
@stmichaelis.bsky.social
@Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Sharing insights, news, and findings from the web
https://lamarr-institute.org/
Sharing insights, news, and findings from the web
https://lamarr-institute.org/
News from Lamarr: "“AI – Muse or Monster?”: Lamarr Institute at the Cine Bonn Bleu Short Film Festival" at:
Lamarr Institute at the Cine Bonn Bleu Short Film Festival
Experts from design, film, and technology discussed the creative potential & ethical challenges of AI at Cine Bonn Bleu Short Film Festival moderated by Lamarr.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "“AI – Muse or Monster?”: Lamarr Institute at the Cine Bonn Bleu Short Film Festival" at:
News from Lamarr: "RiverMamba: New AI architecture improves flood forecasting" at:
RiverMamba: New AI architecture improves flood forecasting » Lamarr News
Artificial intelligence for better disaster prevention: The new AI model “RiverMamba”, developed at the Lamarr Institute and the University of Bonn under the lead of Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gall, significantly...
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November 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "RiverMamba: New AI architecture improves flood forecasting" at:
News from Lamarr: "Lamarr Institute Engages in Scientific Exchange in Canada" at:
Delegation Visit Strenghtens AI Coopoeration
Lamarr researchers met with leading Canadian AI institutes to explore collaboration on foundation models, robotics, medicine, and responsible AI — joining forces to shape trustworthy, human-centered...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "Lamarr Institute Engages in Scientific Exchange in Canada" at:
News from Lamarr: "“Apply, Access, Advance” – Lamarr Co-Director Stefan Wrobel on the Implementation of Germany’s Hightech Agenda" at:
Apply, Access, Advance: Lamarr on Germany’s Hightech Agenda
Lamarr Co-Director Stefan Wrobel emphasizes AI’s key role in Germany’s Hightech Agenda and the need for stronger access, collaboration, and application.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "“Apply, Access, Advance” – Lamarr Co-Director Stefan Wrobel on the Implementation of Germany’s Hightech Agenda" at:
News from Lamarr: "New Emmy Noether Group in Bonn explores Animal Behavior through AI" at:
New Emmy Noether Group in Bonn explores Animal Behavior through AI » Lamarr News
Dr. France Rose, a researcher at the interface of biology and computer science, has been successful in the Emmy Noether Program of the German Research
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October 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
News from Lamarr: "New Emmy Noether Group in Bonn explores Animal Behavior through AI" at:
News from Lamarr: "Chemical language models don’t need to understand chemistry" at: lamarr-institute.org/news/ai-chem...
AI in Chemistry: Learning Correlations, Not Concepts
Researchers from the Lamarr Institute and the University of Bonn show that transformer models used in chemistry learn only statistical correlations
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October 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "Chemical language models don’t need to understand chemistry" at: lamarr-institute.org/news/ai-chem...
News from Lamarr: "Teachers Learn and Teach AI: AI4Teachers Program Launches in Rhineland-Palatinate" at:
Teachers Learn and Teach AI: AI4Teachers Program Launches in Rhineland-Palatinate » Lamarr News
Lamarr partners Fraunhofer IAIS and the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Education qualify teachers for AI in the classroom – initiative teaches application,
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October 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "Teachers Learn and Teach AI: AI4Teachers Program Launches in Rhineland-Palatinate" at:
Recommended reading: "Acceleration is felt, velocity is ignored" at:
Acceleration is felt, velocity is ignored
On an airplane, we notice even tiny changes in acceleration (including direction) but we’re completely unaware that we’re traveling at hundreds of miles an hour. “Compared to what…
feeds.feedblitz.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Recommended reading: "Acceleration is felt, velocity is ignored" at:
News from Lamarr: "ERC Starting Grant for Lamarr-Chair Lucie Flek" at:
ERC Starting Grant for Lamarr-Chair Lucie Flek » Lamarr News
As one of three researchers at the University of Bonn – a partner institution of the Lamarr Institute – computer science professor Lucie Flek has been awarded
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September 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "ERC Starting Grant for Lamarr-Chair Lucie Flek" at:
Recommended reading: "Walk away or dance" at:
Walk away or dance
AI and LLMs pose a particularly visceral threat to the typing class. Writers, editors, poets, freelancers, marketing copywriters and others are voicing reasonable (and unreasonable) objections to t…
seths.blog
September 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Recommended reading: "Walk away or dance" at:
Recommended reading: "TextQuests: How Good are LLMs at Text-Based Video Games?" at:
TextQuests: How Good are LLMs at Text-Based Video Games?
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
August 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Recommended reading: "TextQuests: How Good are LLMs at Text-Based Video Games?" at:
Recommended reading: "This Is A Lesson I Hope To Pass Down" at:
This Is A Lesson I Hope To Pass Down - RyanHoliday.net
This originally ran in The Free Press. Poems have always been earnest. That’s why some of them are so cringe. Rhapsodizing about nature. Pouring out your heart to a lover. Finding deep meaning in...
ryanholiday.net
August 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Recommended reading: "This Is A Lesson I Hope To Pass Down" at:
News from Lamarr: "EGOI 2025: Europe’s young female IT talents are guests at at Institute of Computer Science and the Lamarr Institute in Bonn" at:
EGOI 2025: Young Female IT Talents in Bonn
EGOI 2025 brought over 200 young female IT talents to Bonn for a week of algorithmic challenges, research insights, and diversity in IT.
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August 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "EGOI 2025: Europe’s young female IT talents are guests at at Institute of Computer Science and the Lamarr Institute in Bonn" at:
News from Lamarr: "Grace Hopper Award for AI-supported Time Series Processing: Antonia Körner honored for Master’s Thesis" at:
Lamarr Student Antonia Körner Wins Grace Hopper Award 2025
Antonia Körner wins the Grace Hopper Award and BIG Award for her zero-shot AI model for imputing missing time series data – developed with the Lamarr Institute.
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July 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "Grace Hopper Award for AI-supported Time Series Processing: Antonia Körner honored for Master’s Thesis" at:
Reposted by Stefan Michaelis
Our team NimbRo@Home participates in the #robocup2025 domestic service robot competition in Salvador, Brazil.
Despite much delayed arrival of the robots, NimbRo reached the final as runner-up.
www.ais.uni-bonn.de/nimbro/@Home
Despite much delayed arrival of the robots, NimbRo reached the final as runner-up.
www.ais.uni-bonn.de/nimbro/@Home
July 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Our team NimbRo@Home participates in the #robocup2025 domestic service robot competition in Salvador, Brazil.
Despite much delayed arrival of the robots, NimbRo reached the final as runner-up.
www.ais.uni-bonn.de/nimbro/@Home
Despite much delayed arrival of the robots, NimbRo reached the final as runner-up.
www.ais.uni-bonn.de/nimbro/@Home
Recommended reading: "The poetry machine" at:
The poetry machine
[written by claude.] Here’s the thing about ChatGPT that nobody wants to admit: It’s not intelligent. It’s something far more interesting. Back in the 1950s, a Russian linguist na…
seths.blog
July 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Recommended reading: "The poetry machine" at:
News from Lamarr: "AI in Tax Investigation: North Rhine-Westphalia, Fraunhofer IAIS, and Lamarr Institute Develop Prototype to Support Financial Crime Investigations" at:
AI in Tax Investigation: Lamarr & Partners Develop Prototype
Lamarr and partners use AI in tax investigation to help detect suspicious transactions and terrorism financing faster. Learn more about the project.
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June 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "AI in Tax Investigation: North Rhine-Westphalia, Fraunhofer IAIS, and Lamarr Institute Develop Prototype to Support Financial Crime Investigations" at:
News from Lamarr: "Excellent and Interdisciplinary: Lamarr Institute Shapes Cutting-edge Research in Bonn and Dortmund" at:
Excellent and Interdisciplinary: Lamarr Institute Shapes Cutting-edge Research in Bonn and Dortmund » Lamarr News
From sustainable agriculture to particle research and astrophysics – scientists at the Lamarr Institute are shaping the future with Artificial Intelligence at
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June 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "Excellent and Interdisciplinary: Lamarr Institute Shapes Cutting-edge Research in Bonn and Dortmund" at:
News from Lamarr: "Lamarr-PI Prof. Johannes Albrecht Honored with Breakthrough Prize 2025" at:
Lamarr-PI Prof. Johannes Albrecht Honored with Breakthrough Prize 2025 » Lamarr News
We are excited to share that Prof. Johannes Albrecht, a Principal Investigator at the Lamarr Institute and a key figure in the Faculty of Physics at TU
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May 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "Lamarr-PI Prof. Johannes Albrecht Honored with Breakthrough Prize 2025" at:
Recommended reading: "The Huge List of AI Tools: What's Actually Worth Using in May 2025?" at:
The Huge List of AI Tools: What's Actually Worth Using in May 2025?
There are way too many AI tools out there now. Every week brings another dozen “revolutionary” AI products promising to transform how you work. It’s overwhelming trying to figure out what’s actually...
chrismdp.com
May 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Recommended reading: "The Huge List of AI Tools: What's Actually Worth Using in May 2025?" at:
Recommended reading: "System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4" at:
System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4
Direct link to a PDF on Anthropic's CDN because they don't appear to have a landing page anywhere for this document. Anthropic's system cards are always worth a look, and …
simonwillison.net
May 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Recommended reading: "System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4" at:
Recommended reading: "User interaction design drives outcomes" at:
User interaction design drives outcomes
AI models primarily use a text or speech interface. Type what you want and it types back. Say what you want it talks back. This is fancy, a breakthrough, a little showy. And if the user brings the …
seths.blog
May 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Recommended reading: "User interaction design drives outcomes" at:
Recommended reading: "Why You Love Conflict You’ll Never Fight: Spectator’s War" at:
Why You Love Conflict You'll Never Fight: Spectator's War - Stoic of the Day
This topic is NOT about whether any particular war is right or wrong, justified or not.
www.stoicoftheday.com
May 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Recommended reading: "Why You Love Conflict You’ll Never Fight: Spectator’s War" at:
News from Lamarr: "Michael Kamp Joins Lamarr Institute as Professor" at:
Michael Kamp Joins Lamarr Institute as Professor » Lamarr News
The Lamarr Institute is pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Michael Kamp will be joining as its newest professor. With a strong background in Trustworthy AI
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May 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "Michael Kamp Joins Lamarr Institute as Professor" at:
News from Lamarr: "Girls’ Day 2025" at:
Girls’ Day 2025 » Lamarr News
On this year's Girls' Day 2025 the Lamarr Institute introduced young, interested participants to the world of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and
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May 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "Girls’ Day 2025" at: