Everything I’ve written

Deep dives into things I’ve built, notes on language models and how to evaluate them, lessons learned the hard way, and the occasional very silly program.

  1. I built my son a camera

    A Leica-inspired toddler camera with a glowing arcade shutter button, an ESP32-S3 and far too much hot glue.

    8 min read

  2. How I stole a blog design

    I went looking for a terminal color scheme and came back with a whole blog design. Here's what I took from hamvocke.com and how the headline works.

    3 min read

  3. A Deep Dive into rasa

    With the rise of personal assistants like Siri, Google Assistant, Cortana, Alexa and how they're all called, there seems to be a great interest in chat bots, which are basically small text-based Alexas! So - exactly like 20 years ago - many companies want cool chat-bot interfaces for Facebook, WhatsApp or simply their website. That's where rasa comes into play. rasa is a startup that provides a framework for building bots utilizing the hottest and newest approaches, including Machine Learning™.

    7 min read

  4. AstrologySort

    Some days ago I was bored and searched the internet for something to do. Something productive. Naturally, I went straight to the okayest subreddit I know (/r/shittyprogramming) and searched for "idea" to get the hottest news on what one might productively do. And you will never guess what I've found... clickbaiting intensifies

    3 min read

  5. Hello World 2.0!

    So this blog did not receive any love from me for quite some time. That's why I decided to revamp the whole thing and now it looks completely the same! Want to read me ramble about that topic for some paragraphs? Then read on...

    2 min read

  6. U.N. Interstellar was her?

    So I've seen the new Christopher Nolan movie Interstellar yesterday! I had very mixed feelings about it and I will definitely see it again soon. The movie turned out pretty different that I had imagined and that threw me a bit off. This blog post however is not about the movie directly but about the music in it. So don't worry: no spoilers :)

    1 min read

  7. Compression Distance

    So I've recently looked into compression based distances as part of research for a masters course at the TU Berlin. What I found was a really interesting way of measuring distances between two textures (i.e. images).

    4 min read

  8. My Octopress Blog

    UPDATE: My blog now runs on pelican. Ignore this post. Really. So I have a new website/blog. It is made with the octopress blogging framework. Octopress is rather different from all the content management systems and blogs I've seen before. Since version 2.0 it is based on jekyll and thus has a completetly different approach on content management and creation. It uses rake tasks to accomplish most of the work. Because octopress is a framework, the comfort for creating and managing content are rather sparse, but then again it is really powerfull if you know what you're doing.

    2 min read