Towards a Philosophy of Science in the Age of AI I feel that — at a time when data technologies, and generative AI in particular, are about to dramatically change our lives and societies — the moment has come for a philosophical reflection on data and science. This text is my attempt at such a philosophy. Philosophy is concerned with completion, with the recollection and unification of parts that have been separated. While my attempt here is somewhat extensive for a blog arti

Description: In collaboration with HSLU and geoimpact, I developed a machine learning framework that estimates the real-world impact of building retrofitting measures — such as insulation and window replacement — on heat consumption. By combining predictive modeling with causal inference, the system quantifies the true energy savings achieved across diverse building types and regions. This scalable, data-driven approach enables policymakers and energy planners to track retrof

Relationships in the Emergence of the Major Ideas in Art, Science, Philosophy, and Spirituality In this article, I explore how major ideas in art, science, philosophy, and spirituality have emerged and influenced each other throughout history. Inspired by Carl Jung’s theories of the collective unconscious, I wanted to see if patterns in intellectual history could reveal something about the hidden structures shaping human thought. By analyzing historical events and their relat

About J.R.R. Tolkien in Psychoanalysis, the Ego as a Social Construct, and the Solution to Climate Change When I hear the term social liberation, my first associations are some clichés about the hippies of the 1960s who wanted to break out and build their own new society based on love, sexual freedom, long hair, and rock ’n’ roll. However, when you dive deeper into the 1960s movement, figures like Alan Watts or Carl Jung appear to be at the root of their ideas, and the pictur

Project Overview Description: For Demokratis , I helped to make Legislative Consultation PDFs more accessible and interactive by parsing them into a structured data form using AI. I employed an evaluation driven development approach, that helps to navigate the landscape of innumerable possible parsing solutions. Methods: Evaluation driven Generative AI : Constructing numeric and visual evaluation metrics using Python’s difflib and tracking experiment code and results in MLflo

Disclaimer: This article was created with the assistance of generative AI, which helped articulate and organize my ideas into written text. The use of AI in the writing process not only reflects the integration of technology into creative expression but also serves as an example of the collaboration between human consciousness and artificial systems discussed in the article. The time I saved, I wisely spent on meditation. In an era of rapid technological progress, humanity fi

Can relationship be seen as a spiritual path? In the pursuit of a fulfilled life, to me, two essential keys emerge: establishing genuine relationships and fostering a true spiritual connection. Understanding these complex aspects is an ongoing, lifelong process, rooted in practice and personal experience. Here I would like to share some insights from my own journey, although I don’t claim to fully understand relationships, let alone spirituality. Up until the age of about 24,

Description: At geoimpact, I developed a lead generator that suggests promising buildings for the sale of a renewable energy product based on a list of past sales of the product. Methods: Thompson sampling:  This is a method for addressing the exploration- exploitation tradeoff in contextual bandit problems, where we want to maximise a certain reward (i.e., contacting the most promising building owners) and at the same time to continuously improve our model predicting the rew

The process towards higher order requires us to let go. Towards the end of writing my master thesis, after having been burning for almost one year to find a proper way to separate digital recordings of eye movements, I was inevitably sliding into a state of depletion. I got sick and nervous, my sleep cycles were getting shorter and less restful, and my back became stiff and painful. It was around that time, in an unproductive mood, while I would best have ended my workday alr

Description: In my Master’s thesis at ETH Zurich, I used statistical signal processing methods for separating positional eye movement measurements into different types (saccades, smooth pursuit, and fixation eye movements). I developed a novel approach to precessing eye movement signals based on estimating signals in a mechanistic physiological model of the eye muscles. Apart from signal separation, the framework is also able to estimate the neural inputs into the eye muscles