<description>An &lt;a href="https://airhacks.fm"&gt;airhacks.fm&lt;/a&gt; conversation with Dr. Zoran Sevarac  (&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/zsevarac"&gt;@zsevarac&lt;/a&gt;) about:
        &lt;blockquote&gt;Zoran previously on &lt;a href="https://airhacks.fm:"&gt;airhacks.fm:&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://airhacks.fm/#episode_169"&gt;"#169 Deep Learning with Modern Java Code"&lt;/a&gt;,
discussion about the latest updates and features in &lt;a href="https://www.deepnetts.com/"&gt;DeepNetts&lt;/a&gt;, 
a full-stack &lt;a href="https://www.java.com/en/"&gt;Java&lt;/a&gt; AI platform, 
University of Minnesota's drug testing application using DeepNetts,
Jefferson Lab's particle research using DeepNetts Community Edition,
including GPU support for faster inference using &lt;a href="http://javagl.de/jcuda.org/"&gt;jcuda&lt;/a&gt;, 
TensorFlow compatibility, and simplified AI integration with &lt;a href="https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=381"&gt;JSR-381&lt;/a&gt;, 
real-world applications of DeepNetts in drug testing and particle research, 
challenges and considerations for using GPUs in &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serverless_computing"&gt;serverless&lt;/a&gt; environments, 
the potential of Apple's M-series chips for machine learning, 
exploring &lt;a href="https://openjdk.org/projects/babylon/"&gt;Project Babylon&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://openjdk.org/projects/babylon/"&gt;Code Reflection&lt;/a&gt; in Java, 
using &lt;a href="https://openjdk.java.net/projects/panama/"&gt;Panama&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://github.com/openjdk/jextract"&gt;jextract&lt;/a&gt; for native library bindings, 
the importance of having developer tools and an IDE for building AI models, 
plans for integrating large language models into DeepNetts, 
the advantages of a pure Java solution for AI in enterprise applications, 
and the bright future of Java in the AI ecosystem,
Deep Nets 3.1.0 release with GPU support&lt;/blockquote&gt;
    &lt;p&gt; Dr. Zoran Sevarac on twitter: &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/zsevarac"&gt;@zsevarac&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

A conversation with Dr. Zoran Sevarac about Java, DeepNetts and AI

Pure Java AI

<description>An &lt;a href="https://airhacks.fm"&gt;airhacks.fm&lt;/a&gt; conversation with Jonathan Schneider  (&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/jon_k_schneider"&gt;@jon_k_schneider&lt;/a&gt;) about:
        &lt;blockquote&gt;from Pentium 2 machine and a rural high school to becoming a &lt;a href="https://www.java.com/en/"&gt;Java&lt;/a&gt; refactoring entrepreneur, 
self-taught &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B"&gt;C++&lt;/a&gt; in high school, 
officer in the U.S. Army and deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, 
worked on Java projects at an insurance company between deployments, 
joined Netflix to work on engineering tools, 
challenges of migrating Java versions and libraries in a freedom and responsibility culture, 
started the &lt;a href="https://docs.openrewrite.org"&gt;OpenRewrite&lt;/a&gt; project at Netflix for automated refactoring and code migration, 
founded the &lt;a href="https://micrometer.io"&gt;micrometer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observability_(software)"&gt;metrics&lt;/a&gt; instrumentation project at Pivotal, 
challenges of introducing automated pull requests in enterprise environments, 
rebooted OpenRewrite while working with Gradle's Hans Dockter, 
founded &lt;a href="https://www.moderne.io/blog/overview-of-openrewrite-and-moderne"&gt;Moderne&lt;/a&gt; to commercialize OpenRewrite for large-scale enterprise refactoring, 
the origin of the Moderne name and its Art Deco roots, 
OpenRewrite's &lt;a href="https://maven.apache.org"&gt;Maven&lt;/a&gt; and Gradle plugins for refactoring and styling using a visitor pattern on an enriched AST, 
Moderne's enterprise offering for large-scale refactoring and impact analysis, 
potential integration with large language models and retrieval-augmented generation for code optimization&lt;/blockquote&gt;
    &lt;p&gt; Jonathan Schneider on twitter: &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/jon_k_schneider"&gt;@jon_k_schneider&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

A conversation with Jonathan Schneider about Java, large-scale refactoring and OpenRewrite

How OpenRewrite Happened

<description>An &lt;a href="https://airhacks.fm"&gt;airhacks.fm&lt;/a&gt; conversation with Nicolai Parlog  (&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/nipafx"&gt;@nipafx&lt;/a&gt;) about:
        &lt;blockquote&gt;Nicolai previously on &lt;a href="https://airhacks.fm/#episode_206"&gt;"#206 Java 19: Millions of Threads in No Time"&lt;/a&gt;,
discussion about the underscore feature in &lt;a href="https://www.java.com/en/"&gt;Java&lt;/a&gt; 22 and its importance in &lt;a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/420"&gt;pattern matching&lt;/a&gt;, 
using the underscore for unused &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_architecture"&gt;lambda&lt;/a&gt; parameters and deconstruction of records, 
avoiding default branches when switching over sealed types, 
the deprecation and removal of underscore as a regular variable name, 
the foresight of the Java community in making underscore unusable, 
the simplicity of installing Java compared to other languages, 
the need for a minimalistic Java build tool for better &lt;a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools"&gt;developer experience&lt;/a&gt;, 
&lt;a href="https://sdkman.io/"&gt;SdkMan&lt;/a&gt;,
the &lt;a href="https://rife2.com/bld"&gt;bld&lt;/a&gt; tool as an example of a pure Java build tool, 
the process of contributing to OpenJDK and the importance of starting with a problem statement, 
the distinction between Java specifications and implementations, 
the concept of long-term support (LTS) in Java and its relation to vendors, 
the importance of using the right terminology to avoid misunderstandings in the Java ecosystem&lt;/blockquote&gt;
    &lt;p&gt; Nicolai Parlog on twitter: &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/nipafx"&gt;@nipafx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

A conversation with Nicolai Parlog about Java 22 Features

Underscore, Pattern Matching, Java LTS And When Previews Are Stable

<description>An &lt;a href="https://airhacks.fm"&gt;airhacks.fm&lt;/a&gt; conversation with Dimitris Andreadis  (&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/dandreadis"&gt;@dandreadis&lt;/a&gt;) about:
        &lt;blockquote&gt;Dimitris appeared previously on &lt;a href="https://airhacks.fm/#episode_64"&gt;"#64 Quarkus 1.0 and SpringBoot"&lt;/a&gt;,
discussion about integrating AI language models (LLMs) with &lt;a href="https://www.java.com/en/"&gt;Java&lt;/a&gt; applications using &lt;a href="https://quarkus.io"&gt;quarkus&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://github.com/langchain4j/langchain4j"&gt;langchain4j&lt;/a&gt;,
&lt;a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openshift/openshift-ai"&gt;OpenShift AI&lt;/a&gt;,
the benefits of using Quarkus for AI integration, 
&lt;a href="https://www.drools.org"&gt;Drools&lt;/a&gt; and ML,
the potential of using AI for rule engines and decision making, 
the challenges of handling state and context with LLMs, 
&lt;a href="https://infinispan.org/"&gt;InfiniSpan&lt;/a&gt; and vector databases,
the role of vector stores and embeddings for semantic search, 
the advantages of Java for enterprise applications and maintenance, 
the potential of using AI models natively with &lt;a href="https://www.graalvm.org"&gt;GraalVM&lt;/a&gt;, 
the importance of tools functionality for LLMs to call Java methods, 
the excitement around AI in the Java community, 
the future trajectory of tighter integration between Java and AI models, 
the potential of using AI for code generation and intelligent developer tooling&lt;/blockquote&gt;
    &lt;p&gt; Dimitris Andreadis on twitter: &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/dandreadis"&gt;@dandreadis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

A conversation with Dimitris Andreadis about Java, LLMs, LangChain4j and Quarkus

Integrating AI with Java: Quarkus and Langchain4j

<description>An &lt;a href="https://airhacks.fm"&gt;airhacks.fm&lt;/a&gt; conversation with Erik C. Thauvin  (&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ethauvin"&gt;@ethauvin&lt;/a&gt;) about:
        &lt;blockquote&gt;early computer experiences with &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)"&gt;Logo&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_III"&gt;Tandy Model 3&lt;/a&gt;, 
writing horse race handicapping software as a kid, 
working at Apple at 16 writing resource editor for Mac, 
starting consulting firm and building custom software, 
attending Sun Tech Days to learn about &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PalmPilot"&gt;Palm Pilot&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://www.java.com/en/"&gt;Java&lt;/a&gt;,
writing linkblog with &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Tomcat"&gt;Tomcat&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaServer_Pages"&gt;JSP&lt;/a&gt;,
creating popular linkblog with 8 million monthly views,
converting projects to &lt;a href="https://rife2.com/"&gt;Rife&lt;/a&gt; and BLD frameworks, 
motivations for writing software he needs,
Erik's blog: &lt;a href="https://erik.thauvin.net"&gt;erik.thauvin.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
    &lt;p&gt; Erik C. Thauvin on twitter: &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ethauvin"&gt;@ethauvin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

A conversation with Erik C. Thauvin about Java, simplicity, no dependencies and linkblog

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