Christian Heilmann

2018 in events and trips

January 8th, 2019

I just did a quick round-up of my events and trips in 2018, and despite me promising myself to do less, it tallies up to quite a bit. Here is my 2018, and I am not quite sure if I haven’t missed some bits and bobs: January BTconf Munich – I gave the opening keynote […]

Let’s make Machine Learning on the web and in the client happen. We need your input!

December 14th, 2018

Machine learning and deep learning is the hot breakthrough in computing and a well-hyped topic. How “intelligent” your systems are can be a significant factor in sales and many a mobile device is sold as “personal AI” for your convenience. There is no question that learning interfaces are superior to hard-wired ones. The biggest example […]

Feeling chart – to make you write more goodly with better emotionness

December 10th, 2018

(Or something like that) A few weeks ago I found this incredibly useful chart that describes different emotions you can use when you write about, well, emotions. As you can see it’s been through the optimise-by-force mill of several posts on Facebook and other social media mangles and thus has become hard to read. Fret […]

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