Generative Models

Training a German LLM from Scratch

This article is not finished and will be updated. The research group I work with has access to a small GPU cluster, which occasionally sits idle. To avoid wasting valuable compute resources …

Mining the Bundestag

Did you know that the German parliament publishes protocols for all of its proceedings in PDF format? It is relatively straightforward to download and parse them, so we can easily collect a …

Mining tagesschau.de

I like to read tagesschau.de, so I wrote a script to scrape it in regular intervals. My original goal was to determine which articles stay on the front page the longest, which ones allow …