https://stur86.github.io/s-plus-plus/tags/hackathon/Recent content in Hackathon on Simone Sturniolo's BlogHugoen-ukSat, 16 May 2026 06:57:08 +0100https://stur86.github.io/s-plus-plus/posts/trove-post-mortem/Sat, 16 May 2026 06:57:08 +0100https://stur86.github.io/s-plus-plus/posts/trove-post-mortem/<p>The <a href="https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/gemma-4-good-hackathon">Gemma 4 Good Hackathon</a> is a Kaggle competition that has been sponsored by Google to celebrate the release of their Gemma 4 family of local multimodal LLMs, comprising four models: <code>e2b</code>, <code>e4b</code>, each respectively only loading 2 or 4 billion parameters at a time, <code>26b</code> which is a Mixture-of-Experts model, and <code>31b</code>. They&rsquo;ve almost immediately been available on <a href="https://ollama.com/">Ollama</a> too in quantized form. The theme of the competition was to:</p> <blockquote> <p>[&hellip;] create a solution that addresses a real-world challenge using Gemma 4 models, whether that’s an application that helps millions or a specialized model that could exponentially scale innovation.</p>