Notes from the Wired
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I have based this commentary on the original German text as published by Reclam. The translation is my own, created with the assistance of ChatGPT.
Please note that this is purely my personal interpretation of the sermon. I have no formal training in theology or medieval studies, so my reading should be taken with a grain of salt.
Read moreMarch 25, 2025A year ago, a friend of mine had the idea to visit Namibia—often referred to as the “Gems of Africa” because of its diversity of animals and biomes. I’m not entirely sure how he came up with the idea. Maybe it was due to the country’s connection to Germany during its colonial period, or perhaps some algorithmic push from the “machine gods” in his feed. Whatever the reason, he asked our friend group if we were up for joining him. Another friend said yes, but I couldn’t go because it overlapped with some exams I had to take at university. However, I promised him that next semester, I would choose modules that allowed me to have some free time, which would overlap with theirs.
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Ichi the Killer (2001) Alternative title: The Crying Killer This is a splatter movie: very brutal, full of gore, torture, and an obsession with sadism and masochism. If I had to describe it in two words, it would be fucked up. The film has some really cool shots: fast, erratic camera movements, often sped up and distorted. There’s rarely a static camera; it often feels like we’re a person following the main characters through their madness.Oct. 04
Lake Your browser does not support this embedded video.Oct. 01
Simple framework for constructing functional spiking recurrent neural networks This paper relies too much on biological and electronics concepts that I am not familiar with, so I have only written out the relevant part for computer science, which is more or less the main idea behind the paper. Paper Title: Simple framework for constructing functional spiking recurrent neural networks