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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 (!) […]
This is a short technical explanation of how one can automatically populate a Google spreadsheet with data retrieved from a Google calendar. My concrete use-case is the following: I track my violin practice time in Google Calendar by adding an […]
My understanding of the dynamics of climate change has evolved over the past months. The cause is a bi-weekly paper discussion in which a group of friends and I read research papers dealing with climate change (in parallel to our […]
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which” writes George Orwell in his novella Animal Farm, published in 1945. […]
In early 2021 I built my very first instrument – a 3d-printed violin! This blog post starts with a seven-minute video outlining the creation process. The video also features a professional violinist who tested the printed instrument. Additionally, in text […]
Playing string instruments like violin, viola, cello, or double bass requires the musician to place their finger at specific positions on the instrument’s fingerboard to play the desired tones. The musicians memorize the approximate finger positions and perform very quick, […]
On the occasion of completing orbit #23 around the Sun, I purchased a 3D printer in June 2020. Everybody remotely close to me knows about it, because I just keep on talking about it. Quite frankly, it was one of […]
In December 2020 I attended COLING’2020 (the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics) to present “Contextual BERT” at the TextGraphs-14 workshop and to learn about the latest advancements in natural language processing (NLP). This year the conference was not held […]