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Research Ex Machina
We hear less of Chat GPT today. One year ago, it was the hot topic of all the coffee talk happening between scientists. Debates were raging online: how to change guidelines on research article writing, publishing and abstract submission? How deeply wrong was the AI bot about technical topics? Was it going to make software…
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Git Git Clone Push
(Not generated with AI) I am trying to find the node. The right node. Not the writing node, not the export node, but the login node. I woke up this morning and I had only three GPUs left. I looked at myself in the mirror. I could see my face stacking and padding. The LUTs…
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The Social Scientist
DISCLAIMER: This essay is heavily loaded with personal interpretations that I can’t back up with scholar education, being neither a sociologist nor a philosopher nor a historian. It reflects my personal experience as well as discussions I had with other camarades similarly opinionated. —- Scientific communities develop interactions in the physical and virtual space. The…
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Chord Theory
I believe that all people are in possession of what might be called a universal musical mind. Any true music speaks with this universal mind to the universal mind in all people. – Bill Evans In Germany there are approximately 27,000 PhDs awarded per year (The German doctorate, A guide for doctoral candidates). In the…
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The Dizziness of Freedom
One day, I noticed a volume of Kierkegaard writings in the lab breakroom. It was sitting there between hardcovers that generations of well-intentioned people had left to dust in their uselessness, framed between a Matlab cookbook from the 2000’s and a massive Campbell Biology. As a good book hoarder, I decided to keep it (some…