Weekend walk close to Strombad Kritzendorf. Dog included. One of the best Thai-restaurants I know is very close, Die Fischerin.
NSFW
Last week’s excursion to rooftop concerts reminded me of the iconic “Don’t let me down” (525 Million views on YouTube only!).
And that brought me to a playlist with almost 100 cover versions of the song, some of them very good, some of them at least funny.
But that’s a playlist and not a song and I am not sure whether this is compliant with my own rules. So, let me also nominate - just to be safe - one - very different - song from a name constantly mentioned here, Ernst Molden - as a reference to the season, blooming lilac and Vienna,
again with Walther Soyka, Willy Reetarits and Hannes Wirth.
Wikipedia has a long article about the cemetary on which Wolfgang Amdeus Mozart is buried that plays a key role in the song .
Retrospect
Hoodie
Gustavo Cavalheiro Garcia won the hoodie by providing the correct answer on last week’s quiz.
Correct. The Neumann TLM103 has a cardoid polar pattern and I was stupid enough not to see that it had twisted around and that I used it from the wrong side (180 degrees turned). The red sticker is the Neumann-logo - probably there to avoid this mistake.
Here’s a proof that one can see the difference;
Wrong:
Correct:
Messanger Interception
Dr. Nikolaus Scherak, member of parliament for NEOS, was in the #laundry and explained his position on the draft law currently under review. Not easy, as Neos are in the coalition government and the two other, much larger parties seem to support the draft this time.
Deadlin for comments on the draft is June 3rd.
Entrepreneurship Reception
UNIVIE organised an “entrepreneurship night” and a reception on Tuesday evening. This (and similar events) is an excellent opportunity to network within the start up environment of the University.
Vice rector Ronald Maier (right) opened the event, supported by (from right to left) Marco Masia and Alexander Nagel.
Irene Fialka was there too and wrote a nice LinkedIn post.
© Irene Fialka
It was a nice early evening with lots of interesting contacts). If you have (any) innovative idea and are (somehow) affiliated with UNIVIE, I would really recommend to get in touch with the ilabs-people. It’s a group of brilliant minds in an outstandingly supportive and insprirational environment trying to help you wherever and however they can.
Here’s a video about one of the winning ideas:
Committee for Legal and Constitutional Affairs of the Lower Saxony State Parliament
The Committee for Legal and Constitutional Affairs of the Lower Saxony State Parliament was in Vienna and visited the department.
Here’s a YouTube video about the committee:
We discussed, again, AI in the justice system quite intensely.
Research Integrity
I attended (in parts) the yearly OEAWI-conference on research integrity.
I was, in particular, intrigued by a brilliant keynote “Artificial intelligence as a scientific method - risk or opportunity?” delivered by Mag. Dr. Isabell Piantschitsch. She works as a natural scientist and as a philosopher at Universität Graz and argued that transparency, diligence and responsibility are key requirements for justifiable AI use in science.
She gave many fascinating examples of AI/LLM-inaccuracies, one of the funny ones was that you can (really! - see my attempt 01 and attempt 02) not get ChatGPT to correctly show an analogue watch indicating any time different from 10 past 10.
Prospect
Datenschutzkongress
I will be in Brussels as an evaluator of reserach projects all next week, interrupted only by a trip to in Berlin on Wednesday for the second day of the yearly “Datenschutzkongress” that I have again the privilege to moderate. It will be a nice opportunity to meet old friends and colleagues, such as Prof. Dr. Fabian Schmieder.
Legal Design Sprint
On Saturday, May 17th, I will be part of the teaching team and the jury in the legal design sprint in Vienna. That’s a very interesting teaching format.
Here’s more about the concept:
Look and Feel
I don’t know why, I don’t know how, but for unknown reasons a four years old episode of the Ezra Klein Show made it into my podcast feed so that I listened to it (somehow in error) - and it was very interesting:
It’s with Bessel van der Kolk who is a psychiatrist and world known expert on trauma and its consequences.
Here’s another (long) interview with him, sometimes very personal.
It’s from “TheDiary of a CEO” which is - as I learned from Wikipedia now - “one of the world's most popular podcasts, regularly receiving millions of views per episode” - that I handn’t known yet (shame on me).
Daisy
© Birgit Forgó-Feldner
loves blowballs and enjoys spring.
Have a wonderful week!
Kind regards
Nikolaus (Forgó)