How It Started, How It's Going| Blog
Since another year has come to an end, I can’t help but ask the question: What does my exercise data have to tell me? I did very similar things in 2023 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019. Executive summary Some background on the metrics Endurance measures how many endurance sessions (e.g. running, cycling, swimming, ..) I performed per day.| Blog
Just rambling about some music and books I’ve been exposed to in 2024. I did a similar thing in 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020. Records Quaranta - Danny Brown The album felt fairly old too me; quite slow, fairly monotonous and certainly dark. Only For Dolphins - Action Bronson A very easy listen I came back to when hosting people. Sergio is a true earworm. Sour Soul - BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah I think this is my favourite BADBADNOTGOOD album. It doesn’t feel as excessively playful, more...| Posts on Blog
Behaving in micro and macro| Blog
Motivation url Cool sentence with footnote1. Inline formula \(\lambda = \omega\) Equation $$\lambda = \omega$$ Aligned equation $$\begin{aligned} \Pr[x=1] &= 1 - \Pr[x=0]\\ &= 1 - \frac{1}{2} \\ &= \frac{1}{2} \end{aligned}$$ --- Cool footnote. ↩︎| Blog
This is a really cool post, please read it.| Blog
A pre-commit hook ensuring the absence of pdb breakpoints in code| Blog
2023 came with another edition of Advent of Code, an advent calendar with programming challenges. In many ways - e.g. the assessment of both performance of and correctness on official leaderboards - the programming challenges are similar to regular programming competitions. Yet, there is also a large part of the community approaching Advent of Code more casually: people playing around with funky programming languages (e.g. Nix or Nim) or people streaming their daily programming sessions.| kevinkle.in
I'm not a runner, not yet anything else either| kevinkle.in
Records I listened to this year| kevinkle.in
In no particular order; probably not mutually exclusive; certaintly not collectively exhaustive I seldomly ask for permission. I don’t care much for what time it is. I don’t look for confirmation. I don’t need technical private projects. I have colleagues who put ideas over people don’t have a strong ego are very driven but not totally obsessed thirst for knowledge take satisfaction in sharing knowledge, teaching don’t forget or (involuntarily) bend much of what has been discussed b...| kevinkle.in
I sometimes learn about things; I want to remember them, too| kevinkle.in
In a world where we rent out our time| kevinkle.in
I like the fennel seeds| kevinkle.in
Beets, labneh, sour cherries| kevinkle.in
Probabilistic statements on decision tree structures| kevinkle.in
All of the definitions stem from Kevin Murphy’s Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction. Many of the following primitives are defined for discrete as well as continuous random variables and distributions. Since they are analogous, I chose to only represent discrete versions for the sake of simplicity. Entropy $$\mathbb{H}(X) = \mathbb{H}(p) := -\sum_\mathcal{X} p(X=x)\log_2 p(X=x)$$ Cross-entropy $$\mathbb{H}(p, q) := -\sum_\mathcal{X} p(X=x) \log_2 q(X=x)$$ Joint entropy $$\mathbb{...| kevinkle.in
Scraping indications of remaining stock| kevinkle.in
I'm no longer a runner; athletic identity crisis| kevinkle.in
Books and music| kevinkle.in
... that I can think of| kevinkle.in
Ingredients 300g of puff pastry 4-6 chicory heads 4 onions 200g of gorgonzola 200g of mascarpone 3 cloves of garlic 1 peach some honey some dry white wine 10 branches of fresh thyme 1 tbsp of fennel seeds 1 tbsp of mustard seeds 1/4 nutmeg Method Slice the onions and fry them in butter until golden brown, occasionally deglazing with a dash of white wine. Set aside. Halve the chicory heads and cut out the toughest part of the stem, like so:| kevinkle.in
Using Approximate Nearest Neighbors to stitch images to images| kevinkle.in
Creates the illusion of curing illness with the power of vegetables| kevinkle.in
Surprisingly satisfying| kevinkle.in
Clearly sweet, subtly savory| kevinkle.in
A pleasant summer salad| kevinkle.in
If there's something we can learn from Snickers, it's that peanuts and chocolate work.| kevinkle.in
Quick to make, satisfying to eat. Ingredients Puff pastry Figs (preferably fresh ones; if not, dried ones are ok, too) Ricotta Rocket Method Cut some parts of the puff pastry. I figure both rectangles and squares should work. While all sizes ‘go’, I think that in principle one wants to use as little dough per fixed filling size as possible. In the same vein, I would try to make the pastry as thin as possible.| kevinkle.in
I caught myself making the mistake of thinking I wasn’t holding expectations when in fact, I was. When telling myself to not have a certain expectation against someone, I did usually make sure to control my behaviour towards them. If I anticipated that I shouldn’t have the expectation of an event taking place, I made sure not to make the responsible person feel negatively about the non-event. I figured that not holding the expectation would mean that I may not act upset or angry towards t...| kevinkle.in
Ingredients 300g shortcrust dough large bunch of basil ~200g Soft, creamy goat cheese, e.g. Chavroux ~400g of figs (both fresh and dried are ok) 4-6 red onions 2 cloves of garlic zest of one lemon ~3 eggs ~80ml cream [0] some lemon juice some nutmeg some sweet paprika powder seasoning Method Slice the red onions in rings and fry them under medium-high heat with both olive oil and butter. Consider adding more oil to get to where you want to be.| kevinkle.in
I have a feeling that hard-boiled eggs are conventially viewed as unsexy. In spite of that, I gave pickling them a shot. Ingredients 8 eggs 1 cup of white balsamic vinegar 1/2 cup of liquid from tinned beets 2 tbsp cardamon pods 2 tbsp cumin seeds 2 tbsp coriander seeds 2 tbsp pepper corns 1 tbsp fennel seeds 1 tbsp mustard seeds a few cloves a few bay leaves 2 cloves of garlic 2 tbsp curry powder 2 tbsp turmeric 2 tbsp sweet paprika powder 2 tbsp salt 3 tbsp sugar 1 tbsp garam masala Method ...| kevinkle.in
Ingredients Dough 300g of 00 flour 200g of ‘pasta flour’ (don’t actually know what that is) 5 eggs some water Filling 6 large onions 250g fresh ricotta (get the good, dry stuff) ~250g artichoke hearts 2 cloves of garlic a glug of red wine butter tbsp sugar (optional) thyme zest of one lemon some lemon juice some nutmeg some sweet paprika powder seasoning Method Use a standard approach to prepare the pasta dough, see for e.| kevinkle.in
I built a Chrome extension which seems to work more or less.| kevinkle.in
I’d argue that those beautifully colored kimchi pancakes are rather on the subtle side when it comes to taste intensity. The kimchi flavor certainly isn’t overwhelming. At the same time, leaving it out makes you wish for something. Ingredients Serves 4 hungry ppl. Pancake batter 2 eggs 1.5 cups of chopped Kimchi (most likely around 400g) 2 cups of flower 2 cups of corn or potato starch 1.5 cups of kimchi liquid 12 tablespoons of water 1 teaspoon of salt 3 spring onions Dipping sauce some ...| kevinkle.in
I have gotten confused and frustrated over apologies from time to time. They have been a consistent source of miscommunication. I figured that it isn’t clear to me what an apology means in the general case. Hence I tried to distinguish possible meanings in more concrete cases. I ‘regret’ my action and given the hypothetical chance to undo it, I would. I preferred you not having to bear the negative consequences of my action.| kevinkle.in
I like to recite like prayers| kevinkle.in
On weights and biases.| kevinkle.in
Using ILP for a decision making process.| kevinkle.in
No, the other inference!| kevinkle.in
Notifying me about relevant blind spots of my life.| kevinkle.in
I started using Emacs' OrgMode to log my days.| kevinkle.in
After witnessing conventionally spectacular achievements, I embraced the arbitrariness of goals.| kevinkle.in
I explored OpenAI's gym library to model Sudoku as a Reinforcement Learning problem.| kevinkle.in
I compiled lists of media I have consumed in 2021.| kevinkle.in
I looked into my running volume of 2021.| kevinkle.in
This is a really hearty dish. I’d claim that the filling of the pie can easily be prepared in advance. Core ingredients Serves 4 okay-ish hungry people. 1kg smoked tofu 1kg green beans 500 ml coconut milk ~500g shortcrust dough 2 cans of chickpeas 3 carrots 3 large yellow onions 3 gloves of garlic half a thumb of ginger small chili soy sauce black bean sauce tomato purée soy sauce red wine 1 egg Method Strain your chickpeas and separate them out on a baking tray.| kevinkle.in
Ingredients Serves 3 hungry fellows. Tofu 1kg firm tofu 200 mL unsweeetened soy milk 100 g flour 3 tablespoons[0] corn starch 200g unsweetened corn flakes Dipping sauce 4 tablespoons peanut paste 4 tablespoons black bean sauce (see below for an image) 4 tablespoons tomato purée 2 tablespoons of rice wine vinegar dash of soy sauce soymilk corn starch Salad ~500g carrots 2 large cucumbers sesame oil soy sauce rice wine vinegar Method Get ahold of two shallow dishes for the batter.| kevinkle.in
I modeled solving a Sudoku board as a constraint optimization problem.| kevinkle.in
I modeled solving a Sudoku board as a graph problem.| kevinkle.in
While I think that I’ve been doing okay when it comes to not caring too much about other people’s perception of me, I believe to have spotted some weak spots recently. I think there is still a distinction to be made when it comes to ‘caring’. I feel like there is a qualitative difference between caring about what exactly others think of me when in their presence and caring about an imagine I have of myself - hypothetically representing me towards others - but practically never witness...| kevinkle.in
I compiled lists of media I have consumed in 2020.| kevinkle.in
I looked into my running volume of 2020.| kevinkle.in
I contemplated on the usefulness of past observations when assessing normative visions.| kevinkle.in
I realized that I also care about speed aside from effectively being fast.| kevinkle.in
Don't buy beans for a hobby roaster.| kevinkle.in
There’s just something great about caramelized chicory. While I’ve often got there by covering it in honey and balsamic vinegar, I was inclined to look for a similar effect with actual grapes. In additional to the lovely interplay of bitterness and sweetness, there is something light about the acidity of the grapes. I figured that caramelized onions would only enhance this interplay without distracting too much. Combining Gorgonzola with pasta water can easily lead to a very creamy cover ...| kevinkle.in
I tried to model image denoising as a graph problem and implemented a naive optimization for it.| kevinkle.in
I built a Telegram chatbot which lets friends add music to my discovery playlist.| kevinkle.in
I embarked onto the promising adventure of translating social complications into math.| kevinkle.in
Why am I defaulting to buying things I like to see?| kevinkle.in
Naming things remains hard.| kevinkle.in
Capuns are dumplings wrapped in chard leaves stemming from the Swiss canton of Graubünden. While they traditionally rely on bacon, I gave sundried tomatoes and mushrooms a shot in the leading role. Umami has to come from somewhere. Moreover I added cheese to the filling and browned with cheese and cream in the oven. I believe both do not necessarily correspond to the default approach. Ingredients Serves 4 hungry people.| kevinkle.in
I looked into my running volume of 2019.| kevinkle.in
I used Markov chains to generate images.| kevinkle.in
I tried to find a simple solution to a simple math problem.| kevinkle.in
I believe I could profit from being questioned more, with good intentions.| kevinkle.in
This is a recipe for a Korean noodle salad. Its raw and at most lukewarm ingredients as well as the the coriander-acidity pairing make it feel light and fresh despite the rich nature of the peanut butter and sesame oil. I can recommend it as a main course on summer evenings. Preliminaries Bell peppers, carrots and cucumber are meant to be cut in juliennes. The following aspects flow into that decision:| kevinkle.in
I compiled some improvements to my workflow.| kevinkle.in
I tried to illustrate the process of turning an already useful randomized algorithm into a conventional, non-random algorithm.| kevinkle.in
I tried to illustrate the usage of scikit-learn pipelines.| kevinkle.in
I tried to come up with a simple yet long-term system to log my running.| kevinkle.in
I contemplated on the dimension of specificity.| kevinkle.in
Is changing the currency of time a useful regulator?| kevinkle.in
I illustrated increasingly elaborate possible approaches for scenarios akin to the 'Netflix Prize'.| kevinkle.in