Fitness
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Deutsche Version dieses Beitrags Most fitness apps work wonderfully as long as your life goes according to plan. But when does your life ever go according to plan? During my studies, my gym routine worked really well.…
Unsupervised Thoughts
Sebastian Zok writes practical experiments and reflective essays about technology, artificial intelligence, and the ideas behind them.
Fitness
Deutsche Version dieses Beitrags Most fitness apps work wonderfully as long as your life goes according to plan. But when does your life ever go according to plan? During my studies, my gym routine worked really well.…
Fitness
English version of this post Die meisten Fitness-Apps funktionieren wunderbar, solange dein Leben nach Plan läuft. Aber wann verläuft dein Leben schon nach Plan? Während meines Studiums lief meine Gym-Routine sehr gut…
Politics
Warum die Rückkehr zur Atomkraft für Deutschland der falsche Weg ist Der Atomausstieg ist längst Realität. Trotzdem fordern Parteien wie die AfD eine Rückkehr zur Kernenergie. Doch wäre das wirklich eine sinnvolle Ant…
Life
Hi, my name is Sebastian and I'm a Gen-Z tech enthusiast from Germany. I'm a huge nerd that started his computer science carrer with teaching himself C# using sticky notes all over my notebook and some book from amazo…
AI
Can AI Have a Self? Consciousness is a strange phenomenon. We do not know a lot about it. Like, do you think your cat is conscious? Cogito ergo sum - „I think, therefore I am“ is a very famous quote of the french phil…
Travel
Watch my route After graduating from high school, many people take a gap year or go travelling before starting university. Unfortunately, I was part of the COVID generation, so that wasn't really an option for me. Ins…
Life
Put a jar with a 🍌 in the jungle and a monkey will eventually reach in — only to find his clenched fist stuck. The banana is too valuable to release, even though letting go is the only way out. It is a simple metapho…
AI
Back in 2024, AI image generators had a major flaw. They have been great for creating pictures of characters, but the moment you ask them to draw the same character again — in another pose, from another angle, or with…
AI
AGI — short for Artificial General Intelligence, a system that surpasses humans in every domain — is something we constantly read about online - but so far, it only exists in the imagination of Silicon Valley tech bro…
AI
In my “LoRA Is All You Need” post, I argued that modern artificial intelligence has drifted away from our traditional notion of intelligence. Here, I want to develop that idea further and ask whether the path LLMs are…
AI
Every time I open LinkedIn, I see someone suffering from their local AI setup is “too slow” and without ROI. Someone complaining that their DGX Spark is not fast enough. Someone else has discovered that Intel makes GP…
Quantum
Some topics are difficult because they ask questions we may never be able to answer. Like the existance of a god for example. I am agnostic about those questions. Other questions are difficult in a more frustrating wa…
Quantum
Quantum Computing Relatable — Part 2 In Part 1, I tried to remove the shortcuts: quantum computers do not send messages faster than light, inspect every answer and print the best one, or automatically solve every NP p…
Quantum
Quantum Computing Relatable — Part 3 The first two parts treated a qubit as a clean object that obeys perfect rules. Real hardware is much less cooperative. The information in a qubit is not stored as an ordinary bit…
Quantum
Quantum Computing Relatable — Part 4 After the first three parts, the promise should sound more specific. Quantum computers are not replacements for laptops. They are not automatically faster at every calculation. The…
Physics
299,792,458. At first glance, it looks like a random number from a calculator. But it is actually one of the most important numbers in physics. It is the speed of light in a vacuum, measured in metres per second. That…
Science
Did you know that most medicine research is done on weird people? Now you think “WEIRD people” sounds like a group you would find at a very strange party, but acutally it is an acronym, that stands for Western, Educat…
Crypto
During my bachelor’s I dove deep into the topic of blockchain, first a seminar paper, then my thesis. I wasn’t chasing quick money. I wanted to understand the hype: how can a digital asset like Bitcoin be worth hundre…
Crypto
In my previous article, I explained why I personally don’t invest in cryptocurrencies. I pointed out several issues that bother me about traditional crypto — ranging from extreme volatility including hyperinflation, t…
Music
JavaScript is a wild place. It feels like there a million different frontend frameworks (btw the reason js was invented in the first place: for stuff in the browser). But times changed and today you can build 3D World…