Today is my birthday, and I just turned 27. Besides feeling old already, I thought it would be a good time to make Beyond Boundaries a bit more personal. The best way to start this blog is by telling my story as a short novel. And short it shall be. …

Sometimes writing can be difficult. We get distracted by nearly everything else on our screen instead of the text we are supposed to write. The application we use for a living does not do what we want it to do, and we find ourselves thinking about leisure time — all…

Personalizing And Protecting The Future — Elon’s S3XY lineup of cars is extraordinary — in every thinkable aspect. Unfortunately, what they are not is customizable upon purchase. This is already apparent when considering the available body colors upon purchase of the car. Then comes the whole experience during the delivery of your wheels. When I went…

Writing Papers And Taking Notes Newly Designed — Ulysses got a new update which got me extremely excited. If you’ve read my last blog about Ulysses, my only gripe was the lack of support when writing equations. Ideally, I wanted to see it implemented as easily as in Obsidian. Let us take a closer look at the new…

5 Tips How to Extend You Apple Watch’s Battery Life — I’ve been wearing an Apple Watch for the past 23.000 hours. Quite some time, isn’t it? Honestly, this is my second model. The first one, unfortunately, didn’t make it too long. As clumsy as I am, I managed to slam it to the ground while charging it on a table…

The Better LLM For Researchers And People Who Care For Fact Checking — Some blogs ago (does this make sense?), I wrote about ChatGPT and how it will generate facts out of thin air just so it can answer one of your many questions. The desire to answer our questions is indeed noble, yet doing so based on false facts is rather not. …

Driving over 1300 Miles With a Peugeot 206 From 2003 — I finally made it. Today, I’m sitting in North Macedonia on the terrace of my parent’s house. If you are subscribed to my newsletter, you know that I planned on taking over a week off from work to go to North Macedonia. In this personal blog, I want to tell…

Enjoying Free Traveling And Other Commodities — If you ask people what they enjoy most, they’ll tell you they like to travel. This is certainly also the case for me. Although, I dislike traveling for very long. I love those short trips where you improvise each day, and after three or four days, you can look back…

PhD Conference Edition — Since I had to prepare for the departure to the IWCN conference in Barcelona, Spain, I had to pack my bag. Along with my bag, I had a 12-pound suitcase that mainly held things like clothes and toiletries. In my bag — or my rucksack, as it is also called…