About
Come to talk about science in a social environment. If you want to know how computational tools and code can improve your science or you just want to drink a beer: join us. We strive to be an open and inclusive community, everyone is welcome! We have a code of conduct that we adhere to.
Where
The location is alternating between the CCTB Würzburg and the Physics Department (see the current pad).
When
On the fourth Monday of each month at 5pm c.t.
You can come without registration but feel free to join the discussion in the pad if you have any questions beforehand. Usually we order pizza and sit together until roughly 8pm.
Topics
In addition to the open discussions we also aim to talk about specific topics at each HackyHour. However prior knowledge or interest in these topics is not a prerequisite. Online discussions for these topics are accessible via the following links.
| i | Date | Summary | Discussion |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | 2025-01-27 | Join the discussion → | pad |
| 99 | 2024-12-16 | Seasonal and anniversary HackyHour 🎄🎉 Advent of Code in Uiua | pad |
| 98 | 2024-11-25 | Fix R script for qPCR analysis | pad |
| 97 | 2024-10-28 | Reading nfc student cards | pad |
| 96 | 2024-09-23 | polars vs pandas in marimo and rust | pad |
| 95 | 2024-09-10 | Extraordinary HackyHour: adapting the gameplay of Geographical Adventures | pad |
| 94 | 2024-08-26 | Fix keyboard short-cuts via VNC, create a dice score guessing game via FastHTML | pad |
| 93 | 2024-07-22 | Getting into Linux, backup/snapshot workflows and tools | pad |
| 92 | 2024-06-24 | Debugging data consistency errors, fix bootloader, poster design | pad |
| 91 | 2024-05-27 | Debugging GPU-related hardware issues | pad |
| 90 | 2024-04-22 | Interactive documentation with codapi | pad |
| 89 | 2024-03-25 | Adding a GUI (egui) to a wgpu application | pad |
| 88 | 2024-02-26 | Visualizations for disecting compact hyperbolic graphs along incontractible loops | pad |
| 87 | 2023-01-22 | Shader to render the Mandelbrot set with wgpu | pad |
| 86 | 2023-12-19 | Seasonal HackyHour 🎅, Tetris on pyboy | pad |
| 85 | 2023-11-27 | Solving multiple rankk.org challenges | pad |
| 84 | 2023-10-23 | Evolutionary Games (IsoMatrix), Bundesliga betting game statistics on couchtipper | pad |
| 83 | 2023-09-25 | Library sorting for gene editing, conda problem on Mac | pad |
| 82 | 2023-07-24 | Button Men win probability (Hannah vs Karl) | pad |
| 81 | 2023-06-28 | Q-Learning with Flappy Bird | pad |
| 80 | 2023-05-22 | Optimizing Flappy Bird algorithm | pad |
| 79 | 2023-04-26 | Unity, eduroam on T14 G3 (linux generic) | pad |
| 78 | 2023-03-27 | Largest overlapping circle in images | pad |
| 77 | 2023-02-22 | Solving advent of code challenges with ChatGPT, lock picking | pad |
| 76 | 2023-01-23 | Flappy Bird algorithm | pad |
| 75 | 2022-12-19 | Seasonal HackyHour 🎅, Open Science Escape Room, Advent of Code challenge of the day | pad |
| 74 | 2022-11-24 | eLabFTW MySQL problem | pad |
| 73 | 2022-10-26 | Julia problem, components of a workstation | pad |
| 72 | 2022-09-22 | numpy multithreading (how to avoid it), Shoot the Monkey II | pad |
| 71 | 2022-08-25 | Oh My Git! | pad |
| 70 | 2022-07-28 | Text2Image (dalle-mini), AoC2017#7 | pad |
| 69 | 2022-06-23 | Jupyter Hub, eLabFTW, Pluto Notebooks | pad |
| 68 | 2022-05-25 | Solved multiple problems, finished Maelstrom challenge | pad |
| 67 | 2022-04-28 | Poster design, Maelstrom challenge | pad |
| 66 | 2022-03-22 | Hybrid (COVID-19), Netwide Assembler | pad |
| 65 | 2022-02-23 | $\LaTeX$ with Jupyter Book, playing with GitHub Copilot | pad |
| 64 | 2022-01-27 | Hybrid (COVID-19), Experiences doing Advent of Code (in Go and Julia) | pad |
| 63 | 2021-12-02 | Napari time series plotter, python hashable types, Software Carpentry follow-up | pad |
| 62 | 2021-10-28 | DataLad on GitLab with LFS | pad |
| 61 | 2021-09-23 | Compiled and optimized code benchmark | pad |
| 60 | 2021-08-26 | Simple code benchmark: python, julia, R, rust, perl, C++ | pad |
| 59 | 2021-07-29 | Physics Simulation with Blender: Shoot the Monkey | pad |
| 58 | 2021-06-23 | Remote (COVID-19), protein supersecondary structure, 3D printing, zstd compression | pad |
| 57 | 2021-05-27 | Remote (COVID-19), Open Data Würzburg: pedestrian counts | pad |
| 56 | 2021-04-22 | Remote (COVID-19), meetingplace.io, CorrelAid, Neural Arithmetic Logic Units (NALUs) | pad |
| 55 | 2021-03-25 | Remote (COVID-19), Android root/cutom rom, Physics | pad |
| 54 | 2021-02-25 | Remote (COVID-19), Zig, Loss Landscapes | pad |
| 53 | 2021-01-28 | Remote (COVID-19), Challenge Platform ctfd, tidytuesday: cats and dogs | pad |
| 52 | 2020-12-17 | Remote (COVID-19), AdventOfCode Coding Dojo | pad |
| 51 | 2020-11-26 | Remote (COVID-19), git bisect | pad |
| 50 | 2020-10-22 | Remote (COVID-19), Minkowski Functionals, Risky Moon Challenge | pad |
| 49 | 2020-09-24 | Data Gorilla, SQL Murder Mystery, Project Euler | pad |
| 48 | 2020-08-27 | Control DPS5005 power supply with python GUI | pad |
| 47 | 2020-07-23 | Data management solutions (based on kubernetes), remote Software Carpentry workshops | pad |
| 46 | 2020-06-25 | Building networks with pythrahyper_net | pad |
| 45 | 2020-05-28 | Remote (COVID-19), misc, Octodad, Maneater | pad |
| 44 | 2020-04-23 | Remote (COVID-19), Big Blue Button | pad |
| 43 | 2020-03-26 | Remote (COVID-19), discussions | pad |
| 42 | 2020-02-27 | Audio analysis, gaussian blurring, polynomial fitting | pad |
| 41 | 2020-01-23 | Audio analysis, fourier transformation, feature extraction | pad |
| 40 | 2019-12-12 | Audio analysis (python) - say it challenge | pad |
| 39 | 2019-10-24 | Cart Pole Challenge II: Deep Q Learning (DQN) | pad |
| 38 | 2019-09-26 | Data labelling (platform.ai) | pad |
| 37 | 2019-08-22 | scikit-learn, binary classification, ROC curves | pad |
| 36 | 2019-07-25 | Flow Cytometry Data Analysis | pad |
| 35 | 2019-05-23 | Machine Learning (Gym Cart Pole Challenge) | pad |
| 34 | 2019-04-25 | Clash of Code (codingame.com) | pad |
| 33 | 2019-03-28 | Generative Adversarial Networks, Twitter sentiment analysis | pad |
| 32 | 2018-11-29 | Fortran, Blender, Multiprocessing | pad |
| 31 | 2018-09-27 | Data Analysis with Python (real RFID dataset) | pad |
| 30 | 2018-07-26 | Reinforcement Learning (nethack), GPG Smartcard | pad |
| 29 | 2018-06-28 | ReactOS | pad |
| 28 | 2018-05-24 | Text-Generation with Recurrent Neural Networks, word2vec | pad |
| 27 | 2018-04-26 | Antisenese Splicing (RNA-Seq), Hardware: Arduino + LEDs | pad |
| 26 | 2018-03-22 | Python Flask | pad |
| 25 | 2018-02-22 | Texteditors and IDEs (civilized editor wars), VimGolf | pad, issue |
| 24 | 2018-01-25 | DIY monitor case, esoteric programming languages | pad, issue |
| 23 | 2017-11-23 | Bioinformatics for malaria, helping a student group with igem project | pad, issue |
| 22 | 2017-10-26 | Crop Challenge, NodeJS + Express + MongoDB: Chicken Clicker | pad, issue |
| 21 | 2017-09-28 | Captcha Breaker, Nethack | pad, issue |
| 20 | 2017-08-24 | TensorFlow Primer | pad, issue |
| 19 | 2017-07-27 | GPG, Key Signing Party | pad, issue |
| 18 | 2017-06-22 | Ordination, GitLab + GitLab CI | pad, issue |
| 17 | 2017-05-24 | Discussions, IT infrastructure | pad, issue |
| 16 | 2017-04-27 | Monte Carlo Simulations | pad, issue |
| 15 | 2017-03-23 | Website re-design ideas, React | pad, issue |
| 14 | 2017-02-23 | Docker, Random Forest Cross Validation | pad, issue |
| 13 | 2017-01-26 | Random Forest, Bioinformatics Contest 2017 | pad, issue |
| 12 | 2016-12-22 | Penetration testing (metasploitable) | pad, issue |
| 11 | 2016-10-27 | Kaggle (Titanic) | pad, issue |
| 10 | 2016-09-30 | Julia, Regex Golf | pad, issue |
| 9 | 2016-07-29 | Nextcloud on Raspberry Pi, Logo | pad, issue |
| 8 | 2016-06-30 | Publishing tools: Latex vs Word, Illustrator vs Inkscape, Endnote vs Bibtex/Mendeley/… | issue |
| 7 | 2016-06-02 | PID-controller, more codingames | issue |
| 6 | 2016-05-04 | Coding Dojo with codingame.com | issue |
| 5 | 2016-03-30 | Internet security, https, encryption, pgp, P/NP problems | issue |
| 4 | 2016-02-24 | Webcam on Raspberry Pi, zfs and raids | issue |
| 3 | 2016-01-27 | Raspberry Pi, OwnCloud, Perl vs R | issue |
| 2 | 2015-11-25 | Misc | issue |
| 1 | 2015-10-28 | Website, GitHub | issue |
| 0 | 2015-09-22 | Organizational | issue |
Inspiration
This project is inspired by HACKYHOUR@AUCKLAND and the R Study Group. If you are interested in the HackyHour you should also check out WUBSyB (currently on hold). A new project Data Dojo Würzburg aims at training data analytics skills together.
Logo
The logo is derived from the one used by HackyHour Auckland (with kind permission). It uses a public domain icon and the open Jelle font (SIL Open Font License). Colors are the corporate design colors from the University of Würzburg.
License
The content of this website is available under CC0. This website uses the hacker template which is also available under CC0.