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      <title>Don&#39;t Be Your Agent&#39;s Feedback Loop</title>
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      <description>Stop manually correcting your AI coding agent. Use backpressure: deterministic tools and context-efficient output to keep it on track.</description>
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      <title>Finishing my first Marathon: Berlin 2024</title>
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      <description>Two weeks ago, I finished my first marathon: the Berlin Marathon 2024. Before training for this race, the furthest I had run was a half-marathon as part of an Ironman 70.3, with a personal best of 1:40. This is how my preparation and race went for a sub 3:15 finish.</description>
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      <description>A comparison of platforms for deploying containerized applications.</description>
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      <title>Deploying Container Apps with faasd</title>
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      <title>Learning to run again</title>
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      <description>The joy of running again. Take your time.</description>
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      <title>How to Start a New Country in the 21st century?</title>
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      <description>Countries are imagined entities, how can we start new ones using established technologies?</description>
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      <title>Comeback of the Charter City?</title>
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      <description>Charter cities had a rough history but we can still learn from them. Implementing rule changes on a subnational level seems to be a way to go.</description>
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      <title>The 2020 Review</title>
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      <description>my review of the past year.</description>
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      <title>The Personal Python Data Science Toolkit - Part 1</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>how to build a toolkit of frequently used python functions for your Data Science work.</description>
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      <title>Public speaking as an exercise</title>
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      <description>Two weeks ago I had the great pleasure to co-organize the AI in Action MeetUp at the office of my employer Sennder. With the MeetUp&amp;rsquo;s theme centered around mobility and logistics, I had the honor of presenting a talk on Geospatial Feature Engineering.
Presenting a talk at the local MeetUp
Start small - practice often Public speaking is still considered to be amongst the most dreaded activities for people (Glossophobia) - this used to apply to me as well.</description>
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      <title>2020 Visions - Starting a new blog</title>
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      <description>I know it’s almost too late for a new year’s speech (rather talk, or blog entry!). Gym owners are most likely already in agony as they see the hordes of new years resolution joiners already quitting those shiny new contracts. But not here! What does this year have in store for me (and for you?).
On a general note, I want to use this blog primarily as a practice for my writing and occasional sharing of projects.</description>
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