tl;dr – A summary about what happened in the last 45 days. Mostly master related and of course missing some things here.
So what happened this November. I will try to summarize some things that landed in my daily notes and what I did.
Thesis Topics and Master Studies
I had some ideas for my thesis topics landing in my inbox. Here are some keywords. I might expand on this later on.
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Small Language Models: I really think this is a topic worth exploring. I already trained a SML on some personal data.
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Gestalt Theory: In 2016 I did this Gestalten In Code seminar @FH;P and I want to dig deeper into this. Maybo together with SLMs?
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Color Theory: Same as the ones above. I want to dig into training a model for color creation
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Learn Code the Hard Way: For the master we need to do some teaching experience. I was thinking about a seminar that does the following. First generate code using LLMs. Second part try to write this yourself. See also New Kid in the Classroom: Exploring Student Perceptions of AI Coding Assistants
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Student Paper: I am working on a project that should end up in a student paper about: “On Device Small Language Models for Symptom Diary P.R.O. Measures”
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Reading Group: We did a lot of reading about, post-colonialism, design justice, equality, oppression, pluralism and and and. All related to design. Makes we wanna ditch the term title Design a little.
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Workshops: There Where also some pretty interesting workshops going on.
- Unity
- D3
- Spatial Typography
- AI
- Touch Designer Below you can see some videos. I’ll add no additional comments here.
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Find a Font: The hardest task besides naming things
Links
Mine
- ff6347/wimage Project together with Lele from the AI workshop. A AI pipeline using vision from moonshot to get related wikipedia articles
- ff6347/renovate-config Updated my renovate config to have a cooldown phase.
- ff6347/loficubed Something I made claude create when I was on the train. Some fellow students showed some interesting visual and I got inspired to make something similar.
- ffckoverlays Firefox WebExtension. Right-click any overlay to remove it. Inspired by the Chrome extension “F*ck Overlays” (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fck-overlays/ppedokobpbdajgiejhnjfbdjlgobcpkp). Actually just a fork I fixed to make it work again.
- semantic-release-config Worked on my personal semantic release config.
Others
- Utopia as a Method https://www.critical.design/post/utopia-as-a-method
- BIRD conference https://www.bird-international-research-in-design.org/conferences
- Hartumut Rosa - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartmut_Rosa
- Olafur Eliasson - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olafur_Eliasson
- James Auger https://www.rmit.edu.au/profiles/a/james-auger2 | https://speculativeedu.eu/interview-james-auger/
- Helga Schmid: https://birkhauser.com/en/book/9783035618112
- gulbanana/gg Gui for JJ
- metaspartan/gotui TUI toolkit in go
- kiki-ki/go-qo CLI tool for queriying JSON, TSV, CSV data using SQL syntax
- vercel/streamdown Streaming Markdown
- pomdtr/tweety A terminal in the browser shun126/livelinkface_arkit_receiver LiveLinkFace ARKit Receiver for Blender
- timescale/pg-aiguide MCP/ Claude plugin for writing better SQL
- chr15m/runprompt Tool for running dotprompt files. Which as I understand it is a plain text prompt format that is vendor agnostic and contains metadata to make prompts more reproducable.
- sindresorhus/is-online. A simple package to check if the internet connection is up.
- karpathy/nn-zero-to-hero Neural Networks: Zero to Hero by Andrej Karpathy.
- karpathy/build-nanogpt Video+code lecture on building nanoGPT from scratch
- rowboatlabs/rowboat RowboatX is a local-first CLI for creating background AI agents with full shell access. (Haven’t tried it yet, but looks interesting) AnandChowdhary/continuous-claude Make Claude run until it is done. (Define “done” though?)
- kaushiksrini/parqeye Nevwer hat to use Parquet files but I see them popping up more often. Since they are not plain text this is needed to take a look inside them.
- tconbeer/harlequin A SQL IDE for Your Terminal.
- jbranchaud/til Extensive TIL repo by someone else.
- tldr-pages/tlrc TLDR cli seems dead. This is the replacement.
- kavishdevar/librepods Free airpods from Apple.
Obsidian
- tariquesani/obsidian-merge-dailynotes I wanted to merge some notes to create this monthly digest. So this is one thing I found.
- Quorafind/Obsidian-Daily-Notes-Editor Same thing here. Wanted to merge notes.
- obsidian-base-merge In the End i settled for my own Obsidian plugin. It merges all notes in the current base into an new file.