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Zürich-based Software Engineer with Google; opinions are my own. I am interested in data science, software engineering, 3d-printing, arts, music, microcontrollers, and sports.

Populating a Google Spreadsheet With Data From Google Calendar

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 […]

August 14, 2021August 14, 2021by Timo Denk

Becoming Carbon-Neutral Is Not Enough to Stop Climate Change

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 […]

July 1, 2021June 30, 2021by Timo Denk

Influencing People (Essay)

“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. […]

June 17, 2021June 30, 2021by Timo Denk

3D-Printed Violin

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 […]

April 5, 2021September 20, 2021by Timo Denk

Calculating the Exact Finger Positions for a String Instrument

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, […]

January 10, 2021January 7, 2021by Timo Denk

All My 3D Prints of 2020

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 […]

December 27, 2020September 20, 2021by Timo Denk

My Favorite Papers at COLING’2020

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 […]

December 13, 2020December 13, 2020by Timo Denk

Is There Even A Good One? Matching Voting Systems With Logical Requirements

I recently discovered that voting systems are an intriguing field to study. In everyday life we often encounter situations in which a vote takes place, e.g., when agreeing on which movie to watch, which restaurant to dine at in a […]

November 16, 2020November 16, 2020by Timo Denk

A Miniature Grand Piano

This is a short documentation of a recent 3d-printing project of mine. It is a miniature grand piano, at 1:10 the scale of a Yamaha C6 grand piano. The blog contains a video exhibiting the piano, explains the creation process […]

October 4, 2020January 25, 2021by Timo Denk

3D-Printed Solar System

Here is project #2 with the new 3D printer, just like the Berlin Wall it’s an artsy one: the eight planets of our Solar System scaled down by a factor of about 109. This post contains a photo gallery of […]

July 9, 2020September 20, 2021by Timo Denk

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Hi there! This blog is run by me, Timo. I am a Software Engineer living in Zürich, Switzerland. Please visit my portfolio website for more detailed information.

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