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"01a08737-16ba-71f4-83f4-ae73fea24dd0", "title": "A Simple and Cheap Recording Setup for Online Lecturing", "url": "https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2021/recording_setup/", "published_at": "2021-03-14T17:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08737-16ba-71f4-83f4-ae73ff9591a3", "title": "Publication Lists with BibLaTeX", "url": "https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2021/publication_lists/", "published_at": "2021-02-28T16:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08737-16ba-71f4-83f4-ae74008b452e", "title": "Taming the E-Mail Avalanche", "url": "https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2021/mail/", "published_at": "2021-02-13T08:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08737-16ba-71f4-83f4-ae74016ec54e", "title": "A Blast from the Past", "url": "https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2021/blast_past/", "published_at": "2021-01-31T20:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08737-16ba-71f4-83f4-ae7402159ba1", "title": "Metric Spaces and How To Compare Them", "url": "https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2021/hausdorff/", "published_at": "2021-01-11T21:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08737-16ba-71f4-83f4-ae7402ed5d98", "title": "Developing and Maintaining Gratitude", "url": "https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2021/gratitude/", "published_at": "2021-01-03T13:01:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08737-16ba-71f4-83f4-ae74032287b8", "title": "Using Topology to Classify Labelled Graphs", "url": "https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2020/topology_graphs/", "published_at": "2020-11-30T20:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08737-16ba-71f4-83f4-ae7403e6b5cf", "title": "How to improve your mathematical writing", "url": "https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2020/mathematical_writing/", "published_at": "2020-11-14T21:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08737-16ba-71f4-83f4-ae74042c2f60", "title": "On Being a Postdoctoral Researcher", "url": "https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2020/postdoc/", "published_at": "2020-11-02T19:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08737-16ba-71f4-83f4-ae7404d80942", "title": "Minimum elucidating examples", "url": "https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2020/elucidating_examples/", "published_at": "2020-09-28T19:00:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08737-16ba-71f4-83f4-ae7405a91c8e", "title": "A round-up of topology-based papers at ICML 2020", "url": "https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2020/icml_topology_roundup/", "published_at": "2020-09-01T20:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08737-16ba-71f4-83f4-ae7405dd8b0e", "title": "Why your academic code needs a software licence", "url": "https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2020/licence/", "published_at": "2020-08-01T07:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08737-16c3-73b8-8d4f-4904d5056f5d", "title": "The meddling middlemen of academia", "url": "https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2020/middlemen/", "published_at": "2020-07-12T10:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08737-16c3-73b8-8d4f-4904d5feb28a", "title": "Writing a curriculum vitæ", "url": "https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2020/cv/", "published_at": "2020-06-20T18:00:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog

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2026

A Barbarian's Guide to Full-Disk Encryption with Arch Linux original ↗

10 Sept 2026

LLMs Are Proof That Unix Won original ↗

20 Aug 2026

A Pledge for Scientists original ↗

5 Aug 2026

40 Bits of Advice That, in Murky Light, Might Pass as Wisdom original ↗

20 Jul 2026

The Unexamined Model Is Not Worth Training original ↗

12 Jul 2026

Some Comments on "Magnifica Humanitas"original ↗

3 Jun 2026

Scholarship in the Age of AI original ↗

29 May 2026

Epistemic Humility in the Age of AI original ↗

16 Apr 2026

The AI Marketing BS Index original ↗

1 Apr 2026

The Better Lesson? Geometry and Topology in the Era of Deep Learning original ↗

4 Feb 2026

2025 in Numbers original ↗

8 Jan 2026

2025

AI: From Homer to ChatGPT original ↗

17 Dec 2025

Higher Education and AI: Some Musings original ↗

2 Dec 2025

Skills for the Future original ↗

4 Nov 2025

Consciousness Is Overrated Anyway (for AI)original ↗

23 Aug 2025

The Fulbright Program: Chock Full of Bright Ideas original ↗

1 Aug 2025

There is Fun in the Fundamentals original ↗

13 Jun 2025

Clopen Data original ↗

25 May 2025

If At First You Don't Succeed... --- Counting Paper Rejections original ↗

21 Apr 2025

The Time of Monsters original ↗

23 Mar 2025

Overcoming Academic Impostor Syndrome original ↗

4 Mar 2025

How to Write Useful Academic Letters of Motivation original ↗

2 Feb 2025

2024 in Numbers original ↗

8 Jan 2025

2024

De Honoris Numquam Satis: Reflections on Snobbery in Academia original ↗

20 Dec 2024

An Academic's Guide to Fribourg original ↗

12 Dec 2024

Mostly Stakeless original ↗

11 Dec 2024

Maintenance is Underestimated original ↗

31 Oct 2024

Come As You Are original ↗

9 Aug 2024

Underestimating Users original ↗

6 Aug 2024

I Don't Understand AI Alignment original ↗

5 Jul 2024

Thoughts about my Research Philosophy original ↗

11 Jun 2024

What I Use original ↗

26 May 2024

The Monoculture of Machine Learning original ↗

29 Apr 2024

It's Still Theft original ↗

11 Apr 2024

Doing ML Research: Gates Open, Come on In!original ↗

6 Mar 2024

There Are Probably No Silver Bullets original ↗

21 Feb 2024

Tools for Decreasing Your Productivity original ↗

20 Feb 2024

Misinformation Does Not Need Large Language Models original ↗

13 Feb 2024

2023 in Numbers original ↗

11 Jan 2024

2023

Quality First and Other Advice original ↗

25 Dec 2023

Riding the Storm Out original ↗

13 Dec 2023

Remembering Frank H. Lutz original ↗

26 Nov 2023

Contra Posturing original ↗

5 Nov 2023

Chesterton's Invisible Fences original ↗

17 Sept 2023

The Great Desolation: Thoughts on Mastodon and BlueSky original ↗

24 Aug 2023

The Missing Screwtape Letters from Academia original ↗

20 Aug 2023

Most AI Interactions are Like Junk Food original ↗

14 Jul 2023

Why Write?original ↗

17 Jun 2023

How to Write a Scientific Paper original ↗

27 May 2023

Remembering My Grandfather original ↗

6 May 2023

Inhale and Exhale Days original ↗

23 Apr 2023

Human in the Gaps: Thriving in the New AI Age original ↗

16 Apr 2023

Reducing Ambiguity original ↗

1 Apr 2023

The Great Deprival original ↗

23 Mar 2023

Rewiewing is a Contract original ↗

12 Mar 2023

Open Peer Review Considered Harmful?original ↗

12 Feb 2023

Musings on Mobility: The Ping from Hell original ↗

1 Feb 2023

Stuck in the Past? Scaling up Academia original ↗

21 Jan 2023

Web of Science: A Web of Nonsense original ↗

14 Jan 2023

No Comments original ↗

7 Jan 2023

Apparent Complexity Can Be Deceptive original ↗

1 Jan 2023

2022

The Machine Learning Scientist as Toolsmith: Remembering Fred Brooks original ↗

29 Dec 2022

Reluctant Philosopher Kings? Leadership in Academia original ↗

15 Dec 2022

We Are All Nerds: The Literary Works of Neal Stephenson original ↗

27 Aug 2022

Put it on the Crazy Pile: Ideas and Creativity original ↗

20 Aug 2022

A Sustainable Pace Gets You to the Finish Line original ↗

30 Jul 2022

Fixing Duplicate and Stuck Messages in Akonadi original ↗

30 Jul 2022

Questions to Sharpen a Research Proposal original ↗

10 Jul 2022

Open Source and Academia original ↗

2 Jul 2022

Improving My Lab Book Using Snippets for `vim`original ↗

14 May 2022

Watching the Watchmen: Pitfalls in Graph Generative Model Evaluation original ↗

15 Mar 2022

Who's Attacking My Server?original ↗

12 Mar 2022

In Defence of the Boring Web original ↗

30 Jan 2022

My Experience with Lenovo Premier Support original ↗

27 Jan 2022

T-Shaped People and Academia original ↗

8 Jan 2022

2021

Things You Are Allowed To Do, Academic Edition original ↗

13 Nov 2021

Rejections, Resilience, and Rejoicing: Getting a Tenure-Track Position original ↗

19 Sept 2021

Absurdest Academia (A ‘Darkest Dungeon’ Parody)original ↗

21 Aug 2021

A Brief Analysis of My Review Scores original ↗

8 Aug 2021

A Short Round-Up of Topology-Based Papers at ICLR 2021 original ↗

3 Jul 2021

Extracting Data from the Swiss Vaccination Certificate original ↗

27 Jun 2021

‘What is a Manifold?’, Redux: Some Non-Examples original ↗

21 Jun 2021

I Have No Group, and I Must Scream original ↗

10 Jun 2021

Simple Cluster Monitoring with Munin original ↗

16 May 2021

Societal Donatism original ↗

11 Apr 2021

Carthusian Citation Credits original ↗

28 Mar 2021

A Simple and Cheap Recording Setup for Online Lecturing original ↗

14 Mar 2021

Publication Lists with BibLaTeX original ↗

28 Feb 2021

Taming the E-Mail Avalanche original ↗

13 Feb 2021

A Blast from the Past original ↗

31 Jan 2021

Metric Spaces and How To Compare Them original ↗

11 Jan 2021

Developing and Maintaining Gratitude original ↗

3 Jan 2021

2020

Using Topology to Classify Labelled Graphs original ↗

30 Nov 2020

How to improve your mathematical writing original ↗

14 Nov 2020

On Being a Postdoctoral Researcher original ↗

2 Nov 2020

Minimum elucidating examples original ↗

28 Sept 2020

A round-up of topology-based papers at ICML 2020 original ↗

1 Sept 2020

Why your academic code needs a software licence original ↗

1 Aug 2020

The meddling middlemen of academia original ↗

12 Jul 2020

Writing a curriculum vitæ original ↗

20 Jun 2020