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Large computers – small computers – no computers?

Our computers are getting smaller and smaller. I lately observed a discussion where people discussed whether they still needed a notebook or tablet because their phone was all they needed for their digital life. I think this is really interesting. When I started with computers, they were heavy machines split up into tower, monitor, keyboard […]

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WikidataShow

Some of you might know our project about school archives. This catalogues historical sources about schools and helps researchers to find these sources easier. One big problem we came across when building this platform was the effort to collect basic information about a school. This is very time-consuming (there are more than 1000 schools in […]

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Apple

I am not what you would consider a fanboy of apple. I only have one apple device, but I am not planning in buying more and I also do not buy stuff because it says that certain brand. Still, I want to write about apple today because I think they have archived some interesting stuff […]

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Semantic MediaWiki Conference (SMWCon) 2018

Semantic Media Wiki Conference (SMWCon) 2018 took place in Regensburg. In this post, I highlight some of the talks I liked or where I want to share my opinion on. Sorry if I did not talk about yours. This is no critique, rather due to my limited time ;)) The first day was all about […]

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Evolution of Deep Learning

Deniz Yuret posts on his blog a cool presentation about how artificial intelligence/ deep learning evolved. In 2036 we will see if there has been the forth revolution in AI or not 😉

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Algorithmic Criticism

Today I want to present I paper which made me think about Digital Humanities. It is called “Algorithmic Criticism” by Stephen Ramsay. Unlike most of the other papers that only focus new algorithms and new data, this one also focuses on methods how the two parts of the digital humanities can be combined together. He […]

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How to be a modern scientist, Google Tensorflow

This post I want to share a few things that just came to me the last couple of weeks and think there are worth sharing: There is a new episode on Open Science Radio. This is a German podcast about Open Science and other stuff that is related. They also have some episodes. One thing […]