My Looked-up English Words
Since 2015 I have kept track of the words I looked up to either translate them from English to German oder the other way around. Now, five years later, I have got #636 English words and their German meaning on […]
Author: Timo Denk
Research Engineer with Zalando and Founder of Denk Development. Interested in data science, software engineering, math, microcontrollers, and sports.
My Favorite Papers at NeurIPS 2019
In December 2019 I had the pleasure to attend the 33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2019) in Vancouver, Canada, to present my work on document understanding. During the three main conference days there were a total of […]
ShiftRegister74HC595 Arduino Library
The ShiftRegister74HC595 Arduino Library simplifies shift registers usage. It allows you to set single pins of your shift register either high or low, just like normal Arduino pins. It thereby removes the overhead of shifting out bytes that were created […]
Exporting Matplotlib Plots to LaTeX
This blog post explains how plots from matplotlib can be exported to PGF files, which in turn can be imported into $\LaTeX$ documents. All figures in this post are links that point to the source code used to generate them. […]
Simulating a Coin Toss with Arbitrary Bias Using Another Coin of Unknown Bias
Back in January this year I was commuting to work and routinely opened the daily coding problem email: “Good morning! Here’s your coding interview problem for today. […] Assume you have access to a function toss_biased() which returns 0 or 1 with […]
Vision-based Page Rank Estimation with Graph Networks
As part of our Bachelor studies, Samed Güner and I worked on a student research project on vision-based page rank estimation. In this blog article we share our work on a non-technical level. The accompanying written report contains all the technical […]
Polynomial-time Approximation Schemes (PTAS)
During the 6th semester of my BSc studies I have chosen to attend a seminar on Theoretical Computer Science. My task was to present the topic “polynomial-time approximation schemes” to the others. In this article I am sharing the work. […]
Piano Note Practice (Online Tool)
Learning piano pieces can take some time. For some piano players a difficult aspect of it is reading the notes. If one gets used to memorizing them, or (even worse) always writes the corresponding letter above them (e.g. “c” or […]
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Future Technology
“That’s me!” is what world’s leading professional player Lee Sedol from South Korea would have proudly replied to someone asking “Who is the best player at the Chinese game of Go?” – until he was beaten in a five-game match […]
Matrix Types Cheat Sheet
In the field of linear algebra there are variety of different matrix types. Each has its own definition and relevance. I had trouble finding a good overview online and thought I’d compile a list myself: This article lists a selection […]