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w1kke

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cs student at the university of applied science weingarten, germany. exploring future workspaces and new information models.
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w1kke··on Openworm: c.elegans worm simulation
It is part of their roadmap:

Component: Kickstarter EPIC-8 As an open worm team member, I want to launch a fundraising campaign to raise money for the project

taken from https://code.google.com/p/openworm/wiki/Roadmap

w1kke··on YouTube loses court battle over music clips
The next elections in Germany might bring a change as the German Priate Party is gaining more and more votes in the polls.

This could bring the change we all hope for.

w1kke··on YouTube loses court battle over music clips
That is true. But if a company like Google takes a stand against those ridiculous court orders, we get one step closer to freeing the internet from the oppression of the copyright industry.
w1kke··on YouTube loses court battle over music clips
I am from Germany and I am really embarassed by the stupidity in my country. Youtube should just disable its service for Germany. Grooveshark did the same. Everyone who is serious about the internet could enable the service anyway.
w1kke··on Show HN: My MusicHackDay project. A MPC-esque JS drum machine (requires Chrome)
Could I get a volume control/equalizer in there? My mp3s seem to be not really normalized.

But its a lot of fun to play with!

w1kke··on Stanford profs from DB & Machine Learning class are founding a company Coursera
Imho ML class was the best of the three. I am more interested in the application side of CS and Andrew Ng really nailed that aspect in my opinion.
w1kke··on Why computer engineering students need to learn advanced calculus?
Calculus is in your curriculum to train your way of thought. Namely to improve your analytical skills and your ability to use abstract ways to formulate problems. You will need that plenty in real time programming.
w1kke··on Show HN: I built an app to improve your Vocabulary
I am not a native english speaker and in my english class, the teacher always had us write one sentence using the new word we had to learn. This way we built our own context and understanding of the word. Maybe that could help in learning the words.
w1kke··on [dead]
Sad thing it doesn't save the volumne settings when you switch channels.