The Option for Life
We start right at the beginning of Cixin Liu’s novel Death’s End, when the theoretical physicist Yang Dong finds herself in the control room of a supercomputer facility. In former times
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Three Years of #StuFoExpo at TU Dresden
Just two weeks after I started my PhD at TU Dresden I attended my first conference as a PhD student. It wasn’t a specialist research conference though. The “Second Conference
Hybrid Teaching 101 Goes Startnext
The last couple of months, Corona has turned the world upside down. Or better say from outside to inside, and suddenly we found ourselves as part of an experiment in remote
Research Data Goes Cloud
Every time you undertake research, you are creating new knowledge about our world and, thus, new data. The challenge is now: How to store and manage all of this data
Customer Targeting inside the Madrasa
When Ulugh Beg Madrasa was built in 1420, it soon became one of the educational centers of Central Asia, attracting astronomers, mathematicians and scholars from all over the Islamic world. Today it
Coming in from the Cold
I have to admit this country wasn’t on my bucket list. For sure, I had heard of it before from the media, but mostly in the context of political repression,
The Marginal Value of Time
Over the past couple of years I had the pleasure of meeting several highly ambitious high school students, for example undertaking early study (as I did), attending hackathons or even
Sleeping Well in Times of Wakefulness
Since finishing high school (back then a time of rather high workload) I have been intrigued with sleeping multiples periods a day, so-called polyphasic sleep, which promises a serious increase in
The Long Tail Upside Down
On the one hand, long tail distributions (a fancy name for something like 1/x) are well studied in science when it comes to outliers. They demonstrate, that although outliers are
ProtonMail
An often heard mantra by privacy advocates, especially related to Facebook, is that if you’re not paying for the product, you ARE the product. That said and since it might not