The redevelopment of metalcon is going on and so far I have been very concerned about performance and webscale. Due to the progress of Martin on his bachlor thesis we did a code review of the code to calculate Generalized Language Models with Kneser Ney Smoothing. Even though his code is a standalone (but very …
Month: July 2013
Comparison of open educational resources services to host your MOOC
This article on open and free platforms to host your MOOC belongs to the entire series: comparison of places to host your MOOC. As already mentioned there are only a few platforms which really belong to the category of open educational resources. The term is described in the Wikipedia article: Open educational resources as follows: …
Comparison of platforms and places to use to host your MOOC
As many of you know and voted (thanks for that) Steffen and I tried to get a MOOC fellowship in order to create a web science MOOC. Even though our application was not successful we decided that online teaching in the MOOC format is suitable for the web science lecture. With the structure from our …
Drug junkie steals my neo4j t-shirt out of my physical mailbox
Being at FOSDEM 20013 Peter from Neo4j asked my if I would like to get a neo4j shirt send to my home adress. We have to keep in mind that i just moved back to Koblenz from China. I did not only move to Koblenz but I moved to Koblenz Lützel. I knew from my …
Why would musicians use online social networking sites?
For the last 5 years I have been running metalcon an online social network for metal fans and metal bands. As written recently I have the the chance to rewrite the entire platform with a team of 6 programmers. This time we want to do it the correct why. Instead of Thinking of features right …