After I won the community award in the Wikipedia Video contest in the category documentation and interview with my pointer in C video I would like to share some experiences on creating educational videos. This is mainly to encourage anyone to do the same as I did. Have a look at the winning video again …
Year: 2014
About the future of Videos on Wikiversity, Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons
In the following article I want to give an overview of the discussions and movements that are going on about video and multimedia content for wikipedia and her sister projects. I will start with some positive experiences and then tell you about some bad experiences. This article is not to wine about some edit war …
How to host your oer MOOC on wikiversity
Last year we have created a MOOC on Web Science. We had chosen Wikiversity as a platform for hosting the MOOC. The reason for this was the high trust we had in the Wikimedia foundation strengthening the open movement. The main problem we experienced with Wikiversity was that the software running Wikiversity is obviously a …
Copyright violations: Videos from our OER Web Science MOOC deleted from Wikimedia commons
I understand that the following article is written in a very personal way. But this thing seems to me so unjust that it is just unbelievable. So this is my sad story of me trying to bring free educational resources to the world and having Microsoft indirectly not allowing me to do so 🙁 The following …
How to learn to learn programming for non techies?
Out of my personal offline social network I have been frequently approached by non techies that ask me questions like “I want to learn programming, which language should I learn?” “At what school / course can I participate to learn programming?” “Which book can you recommend if I want to learn programming?” These questions are …
My List of People who I admire and which I find truly inspiring
This is my personal list of people that I admire. In a sense I would say if you want to know what I stand for you can just have a brief look at this list and at the values, norms and ideas the people of the list stand for. I have been heavily criticised that …
Why Facabook likes do not really matter
Long time I have been trying to educate people about social networks and marketing within social networking services. I thought I would not create an article about the topic in my blog again, but I just stumbled upon a really nice video summarizing a lot of my concerns from a different angle. So here you …
Please Google make an open system of the self driving car
This is a copy of an answer I left on Larry Page’s Google Plus profile after another announcement about the progress of the self driving car: How come you have a patent for the self driving taxi company in the USA? I always thought of you as a creative role model who wanted to change …
Version control of your Linux config with git
I was just reading through the recent notes of Heinrich which I can recommend to read as well as his old notes. When I stumbled upon the note called Monitor /etc/ using git I was confused. Why would one do this? So I talked to Heinrich and he said: “Well you want to monitor changes …
How Generalized Language Models outperform Modified Kneser Ney Smoothing by a Perplexity drop of up to 25%
After 2 years of hard work I can finally proudly present the core of my PhD thesis. Starting from Till Speicher and Paul Georg Wagner implementing one of my ideas for next work prediction as an award winning project for the Young Scientists competition and several iterations over this idea which resulted in gaining a …