Science, Programming, 3D-Printing, Music, Philosophy, and More…
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]