Out of my personal offline social network I have been frequently approached by non techies that ask me questions like “I want to learn programming, which language should I learn?” “At what school / course can I participate to learn programming?” “Which book can you recommend if I want to learn programming?” These questions are …
Author: Rene
My List of People who I admire and which I find truly inspiring
This is my personal list of people that I admire. In a sense I would say if you want to know what I stand for you can just have a brief look at this list and at the values, norms and ideas the people of the list stand for. I have been heavily criticised that …
Why Facabook likes do not really matter
Long time I have been trying to educate people about social networks and marketing within social networking services. I thought I would not create an article about the topic in my blog again, but I just stumbled upon a really nice video summarizing a lot of my concerns from a different angle. So here you …
Please Google make an open system of the self driving car
This is a copy of an answer I left on Larry Page’s Google Plus profile after another announcement about the progress of the self driving car: How come you have a patent for the self driving taxi company in the USA? I always thought of you as a creative role model who wanted to change …
Version control of your Linux config with git
I was just reading through the recent notes of Heinrich which I can recommend to read as well as his old notes. When I stumbled upon the note called Monitor /etc/ using git I was confused. Why would one do this? So I talked to Heinrich and he said: “Well you want to monitor changes …
How Generalized Language Models outperform Modified Kneser Ney Smoothing by a Perplexity drop of up to 25%
After 2 years of hard work I can finally proudly present the core of my PhD thesis. Starting from Till Speicher and Paul Georg Wagner implementing one of my ideas for next work prediction as an award winning project for the Young Scientists competition and several iterations over this idea which resulted in gaining a …
Is a music record only worth 40 Cent? About the dragging Crowd founding campaign for the new Mock Unit record
There is a trend on the web that artists, start ups (and other people) try to do some crowd founding. I really like the concept. Ask your true supporters, fans, customers to realize the next big project which they will like. But sometimes I have the feeling that especially in music crowd founding might not …
What should I do with my 10 to 15 year old desktop pcs?
Hey everyone I wonder if you could help me out. I am currently at my parents home and there are some old pcs from the time when I was young (even my first very on pc is among them). They might have been bought between 1997 and 2002 and have single core processors starting from …
Web Science MOOC – first lessons about Ethernet and Internet Protocol online
2 months ago I started to create the Web Science MOOC and now you can join our MOOC as a student. We will start online streamed flipped classroom lessons on October 29th. Our MOOC is truely open meaning that all the teaching material will be provided as open educational resources with a creative commons 3.0 …
MOOCs at Wikiversity: A Barcamp proposal for #OERde13
I would like to have an discussion with people that have experience or are interested in MOOCs and Wikiversity. The goal is to checkout the possibilities for creating (otherwise over commercialized) MOOCs in an OER environment (especially wikiversity). Background: According to my former blog post there are 3 ways for creating a MOOC that is truely OER: …