About

Here, I'll try to write about technology, ideas, and other things that may seem simple at first glance, until you look at them properly.

Examples of areas that I'm curious and passionate about are climate (change), software (engineering), startups (in tech), and artificial intelligence (inluding of course, but not limited to, LLMs).

Disclaimer: All ideas and blog posts/essays on here are human-incepted and -written.
I like how Mitchell Hashimoto put it, who repeatedly disclaims on his website what I'll paraphrase here once: Especially so for a personal blog, I think it is indispensable to bring across one's own actual thoughts and emotion. LLMs, or some other text-generating technology, would probably take that away from both the author and the reader.
Plus, for this writing, I'm not in a hurry to "get the text out". So why let some other thing take over? :-)

I'll leave you with this quote:

"Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is."

– Dick Guindon

I definitely want to be let know!

Legalese

This blog is hosted in Germany, and even if it weren't, it probably falls under that jurisdiction due to where I live. The country's laws on technology are sometimes reasonable, and sometimes not; in this case depending not just on what content you publish or sites you serve specifically, but also what your views on things such as journalistic-editorial freedom (and also disallowing misinformation that's potentially harmful to society to spread) are. Yes, what this means in practice is state-mandated doxing for sites ran by individuals. That is, in fact, the legal situation.
I digress. In any case, as such, I'm going to have to bore you with the following (click to expand):

Person responsible for this site's content pursuant to section 18(2) of the MStV (German Interstate Media Treaty): Lionel Merz, Richard-Strauss-Straße 15, 82152 Planegg
Legal imprint within the meaning of section 5 of the DDG (German Digital Services Act): An imprint ("Impressum") as per § 5 DDG (until 2024: § 5 TMG, Telemedia Act) is not legally required for this site, chiefly due to lack of commercial activity or monetization.

PS: I've been wanting to make this point for a while. I am acutely aware of the irony of the law, requiring one notice but not the other for this not-too-uncommon situation that is a personal blog, but I'm counting the law (specifically, § 18(2) MStV) as applicable to this site due to classifying it as a "journalistic effort" regardless. :-)