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reflection impressions on the free flow seminar

The main take away from the two day free flow seminar was that I talked to a lot of people. The exercise where we had to bring three books to talk about was arbitrary for me(the books ended up being too random and specific for my tastes and preferences, but nevertheless I could find an overarching theme in them), but it felt good wandering through the library and discovering the various fields the books were categorized in. For the “idea speed dating” exercises I anxiously come up quickly with projects ideas I already had in mind to evade being embarrassed not having  any   idea what to do for my bachelors. One idea consisted about deliberately training an AI wrongly. Playing and experimenting with the notions of correlation and causality. Feeding machine learning algorithms with various datasets and looking for interesting results would have been the main focus. But after a talk with one of the mentors the obvious fact of the existence of already falsely trained AI come up. L...

on “inter + action”

  Who am I? I’m a human being currently answering this question; normally this is the way I would start answering this question and following up with features or identifying words that make “me” in normal social surroundings. I’d start with my name, then following up with my age, then I would loose some words about my occupation, where I’m living and then ending with my personal interests. But with the context of this seminar I may try to describe myself with feeling and emotions. First I feel really tired, I didn’t sleep well, hungry, anyway I feel slightly annoyed of this silly but still challenging question. I feel anxious about trying to describe myself because I feel as I have to justify my existence. The lurking pressure of finding a bachelor thesis doesn’t help to relieve the depression. I’m also hoping of not leaving a whiny impression based on my whole blog. As of the latest task to bring an manifesto to the class I couldn’t really make a decision. I thought of bringing an...