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Hey all, last week I finished the book ‘Your Best Year Ever’ by Michael Hyatt. The book provides a systematic approach to identifying and achieving personal and professional goals. Besides telling the reader how to set goals efficiently, the author outlines how to maintain motivation and momentum to keep pushing
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Hey all, this week has reminded me of the idea of effectiveness as the P/PC balance introduced by Steven Covey in “The seven habits of highly effective people”: Effectiveness in essence is a function of two things: what is produced (P)(outcome, desired results) and the producing capacity (PC)
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Hey all, this week had been quite busy. Nevertheless, I want to share some tiny bites that I have been up to: 🎧Podcast: Shaolin Kung Fu Meister SHI HENG YI über den Zölibat, Störfaktoren & die Bedeutung von Yin & Yang What does it mean to be a Shaolin monk?
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Hey all, today I want to share some more or less creative thoughts about a topic that I have been pondering the last week: Intensity. Metaphorically speaking, intensity is the very mechanism of how burning lenses work. Incoming sunlight is captured and bundled at one point. The so-focused energy can
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Hi all, this week’s issue is just a brief one due to my exam schedule. Some of my favorites of the week: 😄 Fun fact: Shakespeare was valid! When doing propositional logic specification in computer science, a formula is called valid, if it is satisfied by any possible valuation. Taking
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Hi all, this week I would like to recall some notes on a good read: “Thinking in Bets” by Annie Duke. The main idea of his book centres around the level of uncertainty in decision-making and how luck impacts the outcomes of our decisions. A bet is a decision about
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Hey all, finishing off my group project, building and testing a real-world recommender system, I took a deep dive into various recommendation algorithms. Here are some insights : Recommendation systems rely on a great variety of different technologies. On a superficial level, you differentiate two superficial groups. 1. Content-based systems use
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Hey all, last week I came across something fun: Gamification. If you are like me, you most probably have spent some decent hours playing video games. They’re fun and can be quite addictive: Just one more item to collect, the next level to reach or that fancy character to
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Hey all, 👋🏻 you are reading this as I am just getting started with this newsletter. This is a weekly snippet of stuff that has been preoccupying me for the past seven days, that I’d like to share with you guys. This can be books, topics, podcasts - anything of