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Writing about AI, software development, doing a PhD and the occasional personal reflection.

February 13, 2026 • #phd

Imagine having all of science in one place...

I built the Science Data Lake — a unified open infrastructure that integrates 293 million papers from eight scholarly databases into a single queryable resource using DuckDB, Parquet files, and embedding-based ontology alignment.

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DRUID 2024 and the Challenge of Explainable Semantic Networks

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#conference #thoughts #science of science

May 10, 2024

Visualizing Invention: Fine-Tuning SBERTa on the USPTO Dataset

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#nlp #machine learning #embeddings

Mar 15, 2024

The Semantic Gap: Why Keywords Fail to Capture Innovation

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#nlp #science of science #semantic networks

Oct 28, 2023

Algorithmic Bottlenecks in Python: The Case for ´SynapseTrie´

Searching for keywords in a corpus of 100M documents

#cs #algorithm optimization #python

May 12, 2023

Finally, we have compute

One thing is certain - unboxing a new workstation with lots of CPU and GPU power never gets old. This is a small blogpost on setting up my new server at TUHH.

#compute #gpu #infrastructure

Feb 13, 2023

First Months: Engineering as Productive Procrastination

Finding my path in the PhD journey. While the exact research direction is still fuzzy, I am tackling the immediate technical hurdles of large-scale data acquisition.

#phd #data engineering #infrastructure

Dec 21, 2022

Back to Academia: A PhD at the Intersection of CS and Science of Science

After gathering some experience in both corporation and start-up, I am back to academia to get my hands on cutting edge research on Science of Science, ML, NLP and AI.

#phd #llms #nlp