BizThon : The Global Business Hackathon’s Post

💾 What exactly is a #hackathon? 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 A 𝐡𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧 is an event, typically lasting several days, where people collaborate to engineer a solution to a problem, build or improve software (or an app), or simply get together to identify new opportunities. The word hackathon is a portmanteau of the words 𝒉𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒓, which means clever programmer, and 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒏, an event marked by endurance. Hackathons usually last more than one day. 💾 Check out the hackathon offered by the BioMed X Institute at the end of August, in #Heidelberg. 💾 The event is free of charge, but registration is required. You can register here: https://lnkd.in/eaSHZCFH. #HackathonAlert #ComputationalBiology #BioModels

"Digging into the thrilling realm of hackathons! Hackers thrive in the fast-paced environment of invention, whether it's through coding marathons or problem-solving competitions. Come along on LinkedIn with me as I discuss insights, tales of success, and the exciting life of a hacker in the hackathon environment. Together, let's connect and motivate one another to push the boundaries of creativity and technology! https://lnkd.in/gAV2DdUz #Innovation #TechEnthusiast #HackathonLife"

The algorithm design that enables a solution to the problem faster would not help much, you can spend millions on a super computer maybe you can get it done in 6 years instead of 3 or 2 months, but with the faster algorithm you can do it in seconds on your own pc.. #Algorithms ⚡️ #hackathon #datastructuresandalgorithms #Tuomas Kivioja

This past weekend, our team at UCLA’s LA Hacks (Southern California’s largest hackathon with over 1000 participants) was selected as one of the top 5 teams, recognized as one of Fetch.ai’s “Agentified Winners”, and achieved 1st place for the “Touch Grass” Track Prize. I’m incredibly grateful to my team: Joel Sojan, Chaitanya Gawande, and Utkarsh Shah for enabling us to create our project: WhisPath. WhisPath is an application that empowers the visually impaired with voice-guided navigation. Our product takes a picture, processes it with Google’s Gemini API, and provides specific text-to-speech instructions to avoid obstacles and guide a visually impaired user. Additionally, it includes threat detection utilizing Fetch.ai’s agents to automatically call an emergency contact if there is any danger to the user. I am delighted to have had this opportunity to design, develop, and present WhisPath in 36 hours at LA Hacks. It was an exhilarating experience presenting our live demo to around 200 teams and over 80 judges. Thank you to all the LA Hacks organizers, sponsors, and judges who helped make this event possible. Especially Fetch.ai, who helped us tremendously in getting our backend workflow developed and Gemini API, our project's core computer vision logic. Check out our DevPost for more information about WhisPath (and give it a like): https://lnkd.in/gG8K5sGp

I had an absolute blast participating in the Web Dev Challenge Hackathon 4: Monsters! hosted by Learn with Jason. The prompt was wild—monsters have arrived, and we were tasked with building an app to help navigate this new world. For my project, I created Kaiju Klimate, a weather app designed to predict the impact of nearby monsters on the forecast. It might look like your average weather app, but under the hood, it required some creative manipulation of weather API data to ensure the right monster data was processed through Convex. Speaking of which, the requirements for the hackathon was to utilize Convex and Clerk.com, two tools I have never used before. I am so happy to learn about Convex and Clerk because they were an absolute dream to work with. Convex made database interactions so seamless, allowing me to handle data without any hassles. And Clerk’s authentication? Simple and effortless. Both tools fit perfectly into the project, and they were a breeze to integrate. I'm definitely going to utilize them in future projects! Big shoutout to Jason Lengstorf for organizing such a fun and creative hackathon. Can’t wait to join the next one! Check out the comments for links on the Live site, GitHub Repo, and more details on the Hackathon. #hackathon #webdev #Convex #Clerk #KaijuKlimate #LearnWithJason #coding #monsters

Made some solid progress today on my Convex Hackathon project! I improved the styling a bit and implemented a delete functionality, ensuring that users can only edit or delete the fairs they've created—authorization is now in place. ✅ Next up on the to-do list: enabling users to submit their proposals to fairs. I'm excited to see how this feature will come together! This project has been an incredible learning experience so far, and I’m looking forward to sharing more updates as I continue building. #ConvexHackathon #WebDevelopment #FullStack #HackathonJourney #LearningInPublic

ONE WEEK TO GO for our #EERIEproject-WarmWorld-nextGEMS | next Generation Earth Modelling Systems joint #hackathon. Are you ready? Find some tips on this video below 👇 (and feel free to add some more in the comments section!) https://lnkd.in/dKcmAkFm

For anyone interested in my network! Seems like a really good opportunity to practice skills and develop solutions that could greatly impact different businesses around the UK. You'll probably see me there! #hackathon #python

Another incredible hackathon completed! 🎉🎉🎉 Recently me and my team participated in an interesting HackHPI hackathon in Potsdam. In our team H417, I acted as machine learning specialist and teamleader and was responsible for our project's video processing and pitch talk. I am very proud of our team's performance this time - Maksym Floria, Yevhenii Karpushchenko, Viktor Lynok and Eduard Sobol did an incredible job. I believe that the team was perfectly balanced and everyone had their own important goal and task. In addition, we found a hot and challenging topic to work on - improving the safety of autopilot navigators of self-driving cars. We would like to thank Starwit Technologies GmbH, Dr. Onur Kerimoglu, Anand Deshpande and Jan Meyer for providing us with their great technologies that made this project possible. If you're interested, check out our repository for more technical details. Sorry for the "messy" code, after all, this was a hacking event, not a production event🤣🤣 https://lnkd.in/emkx9XHj The H417 team and I would be happy to participate in other challenges and hackathons. If anyone has interesting suggestions for such tournaments, write in direct message ;) #hackhpi24 #hackathon

Excited to share that, as an active contributor to the SONiC Open Source Community, I recently participated in the SONiC Hackathon 2024 by the Linux Foundation! Alongside my ongoing contributions, I teamed up with Kanza Latif and Wajahat Razi to develop 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗶𝗖 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘂𝘁, an AI-powered assistant designed to make SONiC documentation instantly accessible. 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗶𝗖 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘂𝘁?   For developers, network engineers, and anyone diving into SONiC, finding information can be challenging. SONiC Scout is here to save time and frustration by instantly answering technical questions and guiding users through configurations, troubleshooting, and code insights all without the need to search through multiple files. 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵 We optimized vector database ingestion using Faiss for efficient static data management and employed the text-embedding-3-small model for accurate embeddings. SONiC Scout leverages GPT-4-turbo with structured prompts and “Chain of Thought” reasoning to deliver step-by-step answers. To enhance context understanding, we incorporated XML tagging and advanced similarity search, ensuring relevant and precise responses. Additionally, we fine-tuned configurations through trial-and-error, utilizing Ragas for improved accuracy, and created a user-friendly interface with Streamlit. 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀   A huge thank you to xFlow Research Inc., Ashok Malani and Rida Hanif for supporting us, and to the incredible SONiC Open Source Community especially Anil Reddy Pannala, Delna Sholapurwalla, Emily Ruf, Sunny Cai, Tracey Li, Xin Liu, Yanzhao Zhang and others who organized a smooth and inspiring hackathon. Thank you to the judges and all participant for their invaluable ideas, and congratulations to the winners! 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱 Our vision is to keep enhancing SONiC Scout by gathering insights from every community member, structuring this valuable data into our knowledge base, and planning to train a larger language model with techniques like LoRA for even greater accuracy. Together, we can make SONiC more accessible for everyone. #SONiC #SONiCHackathon #OpenSource #OpenSourceCommunity #LinuxFoundation #xFlowResearchInc #SONiCScout #RAG #AI #SONiCHackathon2024 #AIinNetworking