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Wolf Vollprecht reposted thisWolf Vollprecht reposted thisWolf Vollprecht keynotes Compute! Paris this November: The creator of Mamba and Pixi, founder and CEO of prefix.dev and core maintainer of conda-forge will zoom back to times when solving a conda environment could take long enough to get lunch. The popular Mamba C++ rewrite by Wolf and others fixed that, but a few years later he is rebuilding a more fundamentally improved package manager for the conda stack again, augmenting it with much of what others got right: fast resolution, lockfiles, project workflows and more. Why bet on Conda? Because its package model is the right one for much of scientific computing: a conda package can be a compiler, a CUDA runtime, an R library or a Fortran solver, all sharing the same libraries. Expect a candid look at package management, the Conda ecosystem, where it's strong and where it falls short with an inside look into ongoing enhancements. If you have ever had to make scientific software install on someone else’s machine, join the talk, hallway discussion and get your ticket! 📍 Compute! Paris 2026 — Nov 25–26
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Wolf Vollprecht reposted thisWolf Vollprecht reposted thisAlways great to see users that are having success with rattler / rattler-build, and cleaning up the misconceptions around Conda Community packaging: > I found Rattler by chance, and replaced thousands of lines of bash nonsense with clean, declarative YAML. Then, embedded Rattler in my Rust code, and installed with a clean, declarative API (such fluent APIs). > Everything Just Worked, it was awesome. I had no idea Conda, and ya'll, have sort of solved package management in a sense!
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Wolf Vollprecht shared thisI am incredibly proud of the team for shipping Basilisk - our CVE mapper tool for all conda-forge packages. It correctly identified some of the recent vulnerabilities, for example in Brotli (CVE-2026-111497). If you use Pixi it might be time to try out `pixi-audit` to find vulnerable code early. Security issues like this kept me up all week and I am happy that we have tools now to help users of conda-forge. More links in the comments.
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Wolf Vollprecht shared thisWe're hiring in Berlin - come work on our exciting Pixi based fleet management ideas for Physical AI (formerly known as robotics), and build the best developer experience (yes, there will be Microducks). If you know an excellent engineer who is in Berlin or willing to relocate, I'd love an intro. Also if you have any insights how to filter candidates these days I would love to hear them as we've been getting slammed with applications, but a lot of them are only partially relevant or AI generated. Are recruiters the better option?
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Wolf Vollprecht shared thisVery happy to see that our devroom got accepted again! And looking forward to bring together the diverse developers in the package management space in Brussels!Wolf Vollprecht shared thisSubmissions for the Package Management devroom at FOSDEM 27 are now open! 🎉️ Do you work on improving the community's package management and software supply chain security infrastructure? This work is more important than ever, and we'd love it if you submitted a talk! https://lnkd.in/emzb33auCfP: Package Management devroom at FOSDEM 27 ✸ Software Stewardship LabCfP: Package Management devroom at FOSDEM 27 ✸ Software Stewardship Lab
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Wolf Vollprecht shared thisI’m pretty excited about the new RTX Spark hardware we got to test from NVIDIAWolf Vollprecht shared thisToday at NVIDIA GTC we installed Pixi, compiled a CUDA project and ran it. It’s great to see that the conda-forge community is already supporting the Windows ARM target so well! The code is coming from this blogpost: https://lnkd.in/dtX4xHMa Hit us up if you want to see more RTX CUDA examples!
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Wolf Vollprecht reposted thisWolf Vollprecht reposted thisI’m headed to Edinburgh for #ROSConUK 2026! Looking forward to chatting about Pixi, Robostack, and what packaging and deployment challenges the UK robotics community would like prefix.dev to solve! Also excited to learn some ROS, tour The National Robotarium and the School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, and see the more applied/physical side of what Pixi can power. Tartan Robotics Collective P.S. I have Pixi stickers to dish out — lots of them!
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Wolf Vollprecht shared thisThis week we’re at GTC Berlin! Excited to talk about the work we’ve been doing with NVIDIA engineers. Pixi works great on NVIDIA hardware. It natively supports the CUDA compiler, the CUDA libraries, and the entire RAPIDS data science ecosystem. And we’re not stopping there. Our recent work has enabled Isaac ROS, NVIDIA’s CUDA-accelerated ROS libraries for Physical AI on Jetson devices. We’ve also been getting the ecosystem ready for Windows on ARM laptops like the RTX Spark. If you want to chat about any of this, Ruben Arts and I will be around all week. Send us a message or come find us! Blog posts linked below
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Wolf Vollprecht reposted thisWolf Vollprecht reposted thisIsaac ROS 5.0 is out and you can install it with Pixi! https://lnkd.in/gTUuRm8s #NVIDIA #IsaacROS #ROS #AI
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Wolf Vollprecht liked thisVery happy that the work we did at RISE (RISC-V Software Ecosystem) with openKylin on conda-forge . Now we “just” got to migrate the few other thousand packages!Wolf Vollprecht liked thisBuild once, deploy anywhere. RISC-V software portability is picking up speed. 🚀 From Infineon Technologies new RISC-V-based AURIX platform to hundreds of #Linux packages now available on RISC-V, the ecosystem is making #software easier to build and run across platforms. And yes, DOOM is running on a Haskell-written RISC-V #CPU at a very playable 21 FPS. Read more ⬇️ #RISCVEverywhere #RISCV
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Wolf Vollprecht liked thisWolf Vollprecht liked thisPlease check our new blog post on Notebook.link blog: Learning with Robots in Jupyter. 🤖 Using Web Bluetooth and JupyterLite, we built: 🔹 jupyter-bluetooth-manager, a generic extension for Bluetooth Low Energy devices 🔹 jupyter-movehub, which drives Move Hub programmable brick by LEGO® from a dashboard or a Python API (sync and async) No server, no install, just a browser link: https://lnkd.in/edrJDJrJ. The same pattern works beyond robotics: you can build your own extension to connect to other Bluetooth devices. Read the post and try it yourself if you have a Move Hub: 👉https://lnkd.in/e_-mQGpe
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Wolf Vollprecht liked thisWolf Vollprecht liked thisRelease 15 of our platform, Isonoe (another Jupiter moon, of course), is out, and with it live migration and Windows VMs! Live migration is an absolute game changer: A running microVM can now move to another node while it keeps running, volumes included. So you can patch a node, get off failing hardware or pack instances onto fewer machines without restarting anything. Also, Windows now runs right next to your Linux microVMs, with scale to zero, templates and snapshots like everything else. There's a lot more in this one: A terminal in the dashboard, templates that update in place, memory vertical scaling on ARM64, Netshield for sandbox pods and more. More on each of these over the next few days! Full write up link at https://lnkd.in/euJ2gdRc
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Wolf Vollprecht liked thisWolf Vollprecht liked thisWolf Vollprecht keynotes Compute! Paris this November: The creator of Mamba and Pixi, founder and CEO of prefix.dev and core maintainer of conda-forge will zoom back to times when solving a conda environment could take long enough to get lunch. The popular Mamba C++ rewrite by Wolf and others fixed that, but a few years later he is rebuilding a more fundamentally improved package manager for the conda stack again, augmenting it with much of what others got right: fast resolution, lockfiles, project workflows and more. Why bet on Conda? Because its package model is the right one for much of scientific computing: a conda package can be a compiler, a CUDA runtime, an R library or a Fortran solver, all sharing the same libraries. Expect a candid look at package management, the Conda ecosystem, where it's strong and where it falls short with an inside look into ongoing enhancements. If you have ever had to make scientific software install on someone else’s machine, join the talk, hallway discussion and get your ticket! 📍 Compute! Paris 2026 — Nov 25–26
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Wolf Vollprecht liked thisWolf Vollprecht liked thisIn five days, a whole community got fixes into Python’s core tools. Daina Bouquin walks through the eMudhra key incident in this video. Maintainers across pip, certifi, conda-forge and CPython tracked down copies of the trust list and replaced them. Most browsers fixed themselves. Your Python tools need an update from you. Grab the checklist here: https://lnkd.in/dDWscS2i #Python #OpenSource #CyberSecurity #condaforge #pip
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Wolf Vollprecht liked thisWolf Vollprecht liked thisCooking some data visualization apps powered by icechunk 🧊🧊🧊🧊🧊 - more to come soon data from opencell
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Wolf Vollprecht liked thisWolf Vollprecht liked thisAfter more than a decade in quantum physics and quantum computing, I’m leaving IonQ to join an early-stage AI startup. Today is my last day at IonQ. 🥲 I’ve loved working at IonQ and worked with incredibly talented people. About a year and a half ago, I started working on my biggest passion project ever: MindRoom. I seriously worked on turning it into a startup. In the process, I learned that what I love most is the building, not the business side. Later MindRoom started being adopted at IonQ, so I got to develop it at work too. I also spent a lot of time helping colleagues make practical use of AI tools. After a company-wide demo, hundreds of people signed up in a single day. It’s been the most amazing ride, and I’ve been building around the clock ever since. With this new opportunity, I get to keep building and turbocharging MindRoom with a team of people who are just as excited about AI as I am. I’m still trying to get my head around how the stars all aligned for me to turn my passion into a co-founding role with a set of amazing teammates. The company is still in stealth, so I can’t share much more yet. MindRoom will stay open source, and I’ll keep actively developing it. Thank you to everyone I’ve worked with at IonQ, and to everyone who helped MindRoom grow. This is just the beginning! ❤️
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what-i-cook-up
I was part of the team selected to represent ETH Zurich at PennApps, Feb 2014 held at the University of Pennsylvania. As a part of this hackathon, we developed an Android app "what-i-cook-up", which placed us in the top 10 among 200+ international teams.
What-i-cook-up is an Android app which intends to ease student's indecisiveness when it comes to cooking. The app allows the user to take a snap of vegetables laid out on a table. Following this, the app suggests various recipes that can…I was part of the team selected to represent ETH Zurich at PennApps, Feb 2014 held at the University of Pennsylvania. As a part of this hackathon, we developed an Android app "what-i-cook-up", which placed us in the top 10 among 200+ international teams.
What-i-cook-up is an Android app which intends to ease student's indecisiveness when it comes to cooking. The app allows the user to take a snap of vegetables laid out on a table. Following this, the app suggests various recipes that can be concocted using the recognized vegetables.
In the background, the app is powered by computer vision algorithms. Specifically, it extracts the SIFT features of the vegetables in the training phase and searches for these when the user takes a snap.Other creatorsSee project
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AI.FUND
A strong signal for “AI Made in Germany”: AI.FUND invests in neuland.ai We are pleased to support neuland.ai in its pre-Series A growth round alongside Rödl & Partner and other strong partners. A total of €3.5 million is being invested in a company that, in our view, plays a key role in enabling successful enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence. 👉 AI.FUND supports the development of neuland.ai as a strategic investor with a focus on AI technologies. “neuland.ai addresses one of the most critical challenges faced by many organizations: the controlled, secure, and scalable use of artificial intelligence,” says Dr. Hauke Hansen, Founding Partner at AI.FUND. “The combination of technological maturity, clear market positioning, and a highly experienced team makes the company particularly attractive to us.” AI will only create sustainable impact if it can be governed, trusted, and strategically deployed across organizations. 👉 This is exactly where the neuland.ai HUB, a management and orchestration platform for AI, delivers real value and lays the foundation for scalable, AI-driven business impact. We strongly believe that Europe — and Germany in particular — has the potential to take a leading role in professional AI platforms. 👉 With our investment in neuland.ai, we are deliberately investing in that future. We look forward to the journey ahead! #AIFUND #Investment #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #neulandai #MadeInGermany #AILeadership #VentureCapital #Innovation #Roedl Karl-Heinz Land Prof Dr Christian Rödl LL M Ragnar Kruse Petra Vorsteher Dr. John Lange Ingo Hoffmann Fabian J. G. Westerheide Georg Fiegen Harald Kratel Petra Rulsch Maximilian Seeburg Felix D. Segel Dietlind G. Wittig Batuhan Öztürk Katharina Fiegen Lars Ebe Schnoor Mohamed Ben Hiba
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Aarish Shah
𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲—𝗶𝘁’𝘀 "𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗣𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴." I just finished a masterclass on the sector with Felix Neubeck (Playfair). Here are the 5 uncomfortable truths about the current state of Deeptech: 1. 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗩𝗖𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗽. Deeptech is 99% technology picking. Without a heavy network at the research frontier, you risk betting on tech that’s already been surpassed. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻'𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽𝘀. You’re racing commoditisation curves. If you build a fusion company for 10 years but ignore the falling cost of solar, your business model is dead before it launches. 3. 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀; 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀. VC cannot solve national industrial problems in isolation. If the fundamental policy and procurement aren’t there, venture capital is the wrong tool for the job. 4. 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻 "𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀." The West’s push to reshore assembly lines is often emotional, not economic. Value is captured in design and innovation, not the factory floor (e.g., Apple vs. its manufacturers). 5. 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗲 "𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗼𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘁," 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗵𝗗. Don't just fund a brilliant resume. Effective diligence means finding the one big question mark and focusing every dollar on derisking that specific unknown. The Bottom Line: Deep tech requires systems thinking. You can't look at a breakthrough in isolation — you have to look at the market 10 years from now. Check out the episode wherever you get your podcasts, links in comments 🎧
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Mirko Tochtermann
95% feature-complete means 5% broken. Honestly, that just doesn't cut it. In German Engineering... well, let's just say we aim for a *slightly* higher standard. ;) I learned to code on an Amiga at 14. Assembler. Clock-cycle optimization. It was brutal. You either got it right, or it simply didn't work. No middle ground. That mindset stuck with me. Through Intra2net. Through building Germany's first sovereign private cloud back in 2009. Through every single line of code I've ever shipped. When we say something is ready at OneAI, it's ready. Not almost ready. Not mostly working. Ready. I see this a lot in the enterprise AI space right now. Platforms launching at 80%. Promise of fixes coming soon. Beta stamped on critical features. The problem? ... Nobody talks about it. That's not how you build trust with enterprises handling sensitive data. We're taking longer. Q1 2026 public cloud launch. But when we launch, it's because every piece works the way it should. Call it old-fashioned. Call it German. I call it the only way to build something that lasts. The best technical solution is worthless if it breaks when it matters most. What's your threshold - would you ship at 95%? #OneAI #GermanEngineering #QualityStandards #EnterpriseAI #TechLeadership
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