Engineering, Robotics, AI, Technology
Over the last ten years, running has become a huge part of my life. I’m not sure how useful this write-up will be to others, but running preoccupies me enough that I feel the need to document the journey and externalize my thoughts. On 14.02.2026 (Valentine’s day) I ran my longest trail race: Trail du Mont Agel in Monaco. I expected a picturesque and exciting, yet challenging, adventure. I…
David Goggins - just your typical advocate for a leisurely life of comfort and avoidance of challenge. His philosophy? Life sucks, so embrace discomfort, work hard, and push boundaries – because who needs an easy, stress-free existence anyway? David Goggins is an interesting personality. From my perspective, he’s one of those figures you either love or hate. I’m impressed by his perseverance and…
Edit: Glad to see that this blog post got a lot of attention on Hackernews. See the related discussion here The original tweet by Sahil Lavingia Some time ago, I stumbled upon this amusing tweet from @shl . I love how true this statement is, although it feels very wrong to admit it. Let’s think about the day in the life of a software engineer: You interact with people from all corners of the…
I have to confess: recently I did not get to do a lot of horsing around with new, hot neural network architectures. I do not have as much time to fully reimplement papers as I used to as a university student. But luckily, I found out that if one has access to very good code, one can gain deep knowledge of an algorithm solely by running the code through my debugger, analyzing what is going on…
Christmas break is a great time to catch up with the backlog of interesting things to learn and read about. I used some of this time to finish the amazing DeFi quest by Cristian Strat . This is a continuation to the first part of this series , where I document my first steps in the world of Decentralized Finance. If you have not read the first write-up, please do. Otherwise, this text will be very…
I find Decentralised Finance (DeFi) truly fascinating because it promises to solve so many problems of the modern financial world. It gives hope, that the future will be much less dystopian than we think . Recent years (decades) have shown that we have a problem with harnessing the complexity of the ever-expanding, ever-global financial system. We have efficiency problems related to: Capital…
Five years ago, when I was thinking about the choice of my Master’s degree, I remember asking many people for advice. I was very grateful to my friends, as well as random people on LinkedIn and Reddit, who helped me make many important decisions. Fast forward to today. Having graduated from the university almost two years ago, I have pretty fresh and current experience of being a “young…
Recently I have been interested in obtaining a very particular skill. I have seen this ability demonstrated by many excellent individuals - not in only in the tech world, but also in finance or consulting industry. I am talking here about the art of back-of-the-napkin (or back-of-the-envelope ) calculation, also known as guesstimation or order-of-magnitude analysis . In your professional and…
Over the Christmas holidays I finally managed to finish one of my 2020 lockdown projects. After reading the (excellent) book by Tim Marshall, “Prisoners of Geography” , I discovered three important facts: Tim Marshall is an amazing author. I have been much more ignorant about the global geopolitics than I thought. To build a solid and lost-lasting understanding of geopolitics I need to re-read…
Introduction Disclaimer : This article is a cross post from Pytorch Medium Blog Post . One of the most exciting advancements, that has pushed the frontier of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) in recent years, is Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). DRL belongs to the family of machine learning algorithms. It assumes that intelligent machines can learn from their actions similar to the way humans…