Timo Denk's Blog

Recently, my coworker Jiahua mentioned bookbinding and showed me some books he had made.

While studying for my commercial pilot license on Gleim, a speed limit question came up.

Commentarii de Bello Gallico is Julius Caesar’s account of his campaigns in Gaul from 58-50 BC.

This is about who I want to be professionally.

I visited New York City this week.

Google has several campuses scattered across the Bay Area, and I typically work from either San Francisco, San Bruno (YouTube), or Mountain View.

The biggest milestone on the way towards obtaining a private pilot license (PPL) is the first solo flight.

I started working on my private pilot license (PPL) and realized the need for a custom checklist which was tailored to my own flow.

In March 2023, Yu Takagi and Shinji Nishimoto, published their paper on image reconstruction from human brain activity.

Since high school I was fascinated by the idea of exploring my physical limits by biking for as long as possible.

During my first tandem parachute jump in August 2022, I collected some sensor data with a smartphone (the app is called Sensor Logger) and a Garmin watch.

A gas station does not produce energy, but it transfers it into cars.

There are several terms in probability theory which keep popping up in our machine learning paper discussion.

Earlier this year a friend and I sat on a cliff in Santa Cruz, California, watching the waves.

Five years ago I worked on a project trying to replace a physical keyboard with a glove that was equipped with accelerometers.

Last year I published a blog post with all my 3d printing projects of the year 2020.

In December 2021 I had the pleasure to attend NeurIPS (the thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems).

In preparation for a trip to Amsterdam I read Anne Frank’s diary, whose original Dutch title is Het Achterhuis (The Annex).

In 1996 the IBM supercomputer “Deep Blue” beat the reigning world champion Garry Kasparov at the game of chess.

Single-color paintings (aka. monochrome paintings) are painted using just one color.

This is a short technical explanation of how one can automatically populate a Google spreadsheet with data retrieved from a Google calendar.

My understanding of the dynamics of climate change has evolved over the past months.

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which” writes George Orwell in his novella Animal Farm, published in 1945.

In early 2021 I built my very first instrument – a 3d-printed violin!

Playing string instruments like violin, viola, cello, or double bass requires the musician to place their finger at specific positions on the instrument’s fingerboard to play the desired tones.

On the occasion of completing orbit #23 around the Sun, I purchased a 3D printer in June 2020.

In December 2020 I attended COLING'2020 (the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics) to present “Contextual BERT” at the TextGraphs-14 workshop and to learn about the latest advancements in natural language processing (NLP).

I recently discovered that voting systems are an intriguing field to study.

This is a short documentation of a recent 3d-printing project of mine.

Here is project #2 with the new 3D printer, just like the Berlin Wall it’s an artsy one: the eight planets of our Solar System scaled down by a factor of about 109.

Every morning I pass by the Berlin Wall in the area of the East Side Gallery and have started to appreciate this unique piece of history with the diverse paintings on it.

Over the past months I have been working on a private project which is about logging piano keystrokes.

The date of this blog post’s publication coincides with Denk Development’s fourth birthday (or rather founding day).

When starting a new Arduino project, one typically starts with a blank .ino file.

In January 2020 I went on a trip to Israel to explore the country.

Since 2015 I have kept track of the words I looked up to either translate them from English to German oder the other way around.

In December 2019 I had the pleasure to attend the 33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2019) in Vancouver, Canada, to present my work on document understanding.

The Shift Register 74HC595 Arduino Library simplifies shift registers usage.

This blog post explains how plots from matplotlib can be exported to PGF files, which in turn can be imported into $\LaTeX$ documents.

Back in January this year I was commuting to work and routinely opened the daily coding problem email: “Good morning!

As part of our Bachelor studies, Samed Güner and I worked on a student research project on vision-based page rank estimation.

During the 6th semester of my BSc studies I have chosen to attend a seminar on Theoretical Computer Science.

Learning piano pieces can take some time.

“That’s me!”

In the field of linear algebra there are a variety of different matrix types.

In June 2017, Vaswani et al. published the paper “Attention Is All You Need” describing the “Transformer” architecture, which is a purely attention based sequence to sequence model.

Update: This guide applies to TF1.

From November, 13th 2017 to June, 9th 2018, a friend and I were working our way through the 1285 pages of “Haskell Programming – from first principles” by Christopher Allen and Julie Moronuki.

Our “Smart Poker Table” detects the players’ cards as well as the community cards.

In this article we define and publish the exact pre-flop probabilities for each possible combination of two hands in Texas Hold’em poker.