— Disclaimer: Since the talk was requested in German and my slides are also all German, I omitt a translation as long as no one is asking for it — Letzten Dienstag hat mich die Initiative Solidarische Welt Ilmenau (ISWI e.V.) zu einem Vortrag zu ‘Datenschutz und Bürgerrechte’ eingeladen. Der Titel war vorgegeben. Wir ihr an […]
Category Archives: Research
Defense for Out of Sight
This is what I talked about in my defense to obtain the academic degree ‘Bachelor of Science’ in the field of Media Systems at the Bauhaus-University of Weimar (I started there the last year the programme was available, so there is no easy way to link to the actual programme I did.). The slides can […]
Talking about Flow
Upon writing my current thesis, I discovered the flow-concept of Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, whose name I really can’t pronounce or type without copy and paste, so I will call him Mr. C. for the following. Flow is a state you can reach when there is an equilibrium like state between your skills for a task and […]
Monstrous Regiment
The following is an article I wrote for a seminar in my studies for media culture. It’s about monsters and gender identity. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen states, that the fear of the monster hides a need, that is difficult to articulate otherwise. He illustrates this point in the desire lying within the celebrations of Halloween, […]
Knit & Purl – The Knitting Pattern Generator
Last semester my study group was required to design and evaluate some random piece of software. We chose to look into knitting pattern generators, because what is there available seems to be rather… abysmal (sorry to all the developers putting hard work in there, but a user study could have helped). We did a Paper […]
TF-IDF for Dummies
In connection to the latest paper I wrote I had to implement some TF-IDF analysis and since I didn’t find a quick understandable overview on the internet in one place, I’ll just try and give a brief explanation of things here. So what is it? TF is short for Term Frequency and IDF means Inverse […]