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WiLI-2018 WiLI-2018, the Wikipedia Language Identification database, is a collection of sentences from Wikipedia of different languages. It can be used to test how hard it is to distinguish different languages. If you want to get to the data, go to zenodo.org. If you want to get to the publication … Read More »

Airlines The maximum dimension is length + width + height General Overview Qatar, Emirates and Lufthansa seem to be of top quality (source, source) Airline Check-in Baggage Cabin luggage Emirates Many pieces, 20kg total and < 300cm 7kg (55 xby 38 xby 20 cm)centimeter) Lufthansa 23kg 8kg Qatar 30kg and max dimension 300cm … Read More »

Phở Phở is a vietnamese beef noodle soup. Phở Ingredients For 3 people, you need: 300g beef eye fillet (de: Rinderfillet) 500g chicken legs (3 pieces) 500g rice noodles 8 spring onions 3 red onions Sprigs of fresh mint and/or Asian/Thai basil 3-5 star anise 25g ginger 4 red … Read More »

New Year 2019 It's new years eve and - as always - I try to finish some things and have some plans for next year. Review of 2018 Not a lot happened about which I want to write publicly, so here are some other mentionable facts: ML-KA is still active. I have 40 583 points … Read More »

Washing This is an article I had for quite a while as a draft. As part of my yearly cleanup, I've published it without finishing it. It might not be finished or have other problems. Yes. This blog post is about washing clothes. Nothing fancy, but something most people need to … Read More »

Academic Writing This is an article I had for quite a while as a draft. As part of my yearly cleanup, I've published it without finishing it. It might not be finished or have other problems. While writing my thesis, I came across some rules / resources which I would like to share … Read More »

Domain Registration This is an article I had for quite a while as a draft. As part of my yearly cleanup, I've published it without finishing it. It might not be finished or have other problems. The registration of domains (such as martin-thoma.com, wikipedia.org, understand.ai, unicode.party, …) is kind … Read More »

Expert Systems This is an article I had for quite a while as a draft. As part of my yearly cleanup, I've published it without finishing it. It might not be finished or have other problems. Science fiction movies are full of advanced systems for medical analysis and treatment: Stargate SG1: The … Read More »

File Sizes This is an article I had for quite a while as a draft. As part of my yearly cleanup, I've published it without finishing it. It might not be finished or have other problems. I was just wondering how long a camera which takes images in 5s intervalls and has … Read More »

German Politics 2018 This is an article I had for quite a while as a draft. As part of my yearly cleanup, I've published it without finishing it. It might not be finished or have other problems. This article is mostly a whish-list. Things I would like to change in Germany, where I … Read More »