27 Feb 2024 • Research
About a week ago, Benjamin Zimmerman and I have released the “Synthetic Cancer - Augmenting Worms with LLMs” paper for which we have won the first place at the AI Safety Prize. Throughout the SCSD conference where we presented our work we have been asked a few questions by fellow researchers, journalists as well as the informed public.
11 Jan 2024 • Reviews
As I will be going to the US for a few months this year, I knew I would not be able to take a huge Desktop PC with me. Hence, I started researching for solutions. The MacBook Pro 14 with M2 Pro seemed like a good fit.
21 Aug 2023 • Programming
As there is currently a heatwave rolling over Switzerland, I wanted to get detailed information on temperature and humidity. While researching some solutions to automatically record these values for multiple places wirelessly, I came across Ruuvi Tags. In the following tutorial I will outline the steps needed to create a Raspberry Pi based temperature, humidity, and air pressure recorder including a nice graphical front-end.
22 Feb 2023 • Reviews
I used to have a Dell XPS 13 developer edition with a 4k screen. I was utterly disappointed with the 3-4h battery life and the weight of the laptop, hence once I saw a good offer for a used Lenovo X1 9th Gen, I couldn’t resist.
20 Feb 2020 • Mathematics
The following is an explanation how changes of bases work in vector spaces with a focus on building intuition.
27 Apr 2019 • Programming
Today we will take a glimpse at semaphores and have a look at an implementation based on locks. What is a semaphore? A semaphore is basically a lock that allows multiple processes to enter a critical section at the same time.
5 Feb 2019 • Programming
This document is a list of common sorting algorithms and their implementations in Java. The algorithms have been written by myself. I have tested them with the JUnit tests you can find at the end of this article, however, I do not guarantee that the implementations are 100% correct.
31 Oct 2018 • Theory
Cantor’s theorem states that for any set \(S\) we have \(S \preceq \mathcal{P}(S)\) and \(S \nsim \mathcal{P}(S)\). In words this means that the cardinality of \(\mathcal{P}(S)\) is strictly bigger than the cardinality of \(S\). Unlike some of my other posts, this one is strictly mathematical.
2 Sep 2018 • Programming
Pretty much every free newspaper you find comes with a sudoku puzzle. Depending on the difficulty it might take you a considerable amount of time to solve them. As a result I wanted to write an algorithm which could do that for me within seconds.
15 Aug 2018 • Programming
The goal of this short summary is to explain how you can build a small API based temperature sensor that costs less than 10$ and can be used anywhere. I use this sensor at my office to log the temperature and then display it on a smart dashboard.
2 Jul 2018 • Programming
Programs written in Go can be compiled for a variety of different targets. Cross compiling is easy, but takes a lot of effort. In order to automate cross compilation the following Ruby script is built to take that burden off you.