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During my first tandem parachute jump in August 2022, I collected some sensor data with a smartphone (the app is called Sensor Logger) and a Garmin watch. Below is a little analysis of the recordings. The source code for data […]
A gas station does not produce energy, but it transfers it into cars. The energy is in the form of gasoline. As we will see in this article, one might intuitively underestimate just how much energy can be stored in […]
There are several terms in probability theory which keep popping up in our machine learning paper discussion. Michael Hefenbrock and I sat down to get a hang of what exactly is behind a few of these terms. This blog contains […]
Earlier this year a friend and I sat on a cliff in Santa Cruz, California, watching the waves. She asked me what my values were. Since I was unable to verbalize them beyond a dull “honesty, politeness, …”, I took […]
Five years ago I worked on a project trying to replace a physical keyboard with a glove that was equipped with accelerometers. The idea was to measure the fingers’ accelerations and determine the intended “key press” even though the user […]
Last year I published a blog post with all my 3d printing projects of the year 2020. The idea was to have an exhaustive list to not forget about “that tiny glass holder for the balcony rail” and other smaller […]
In December 2021 I had to pleasure to attended NeurIPS (the thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems). For the second time the conference was held remotely, not in Sydney as originally planned. A total of 2334 papers were accepted […]
In preparation for a trip to Amsterdam I read Anne Frank’s diary, whose original Dutch title is Het Achterhuis (The Annex). I scribbled down some notes on points that stood out to me. They may serve as a (subjective) summary […]
In 1996 the IBM supercomputer “Deep Blue” beat the reigning world champion Garry Kasparov at the game of chess. An event of symbolic significance. I created an artwork which shows the final position of the game, with special emphasis on […]
Single-color paintings (aka. monochrome paintings) are painted using just one color. For example, a painting called IKB 92 by the French painter Yves Klein is painted entirely using a specific blue shade (HEX code #002FA7). The very color itself (!) […]