My open software & open science work:

• NumFOCUS DISC steering committee member
• Jupyter distinguished contributor
• PyLadies Berlin and Women of Color Code co-organizer
• NASA's subject matter expert @TOPS program

✨ Coordination Research: complex systems and reinforcement learning:

I believe the most critical problem that we face today is the one of coordination, so I'm dedicating a big part of my time to work on it! More about my interests can be found here.

• Research fellow @impact academy
• Researcher @BarfussLab, University of Bonn
  • Navigating the Complexity of AI Cooperation: From Learning Dynamics to Language Models Research updates, Long abstract

🌱 Slowly cultivated interests:

• Poverty alleviation: I'm interested in ways of decreasing the inequality gap, paying special attention to people living in extreme poverty. I think about running tech intership projects in the global south while having a fitting pedagogical ethos, teaching farmers about permaculture and supporting them with an NGO and increasing internet access in the world.
• Governance and open source: Increasing interoperability and people's agency in a world of machines and humans.
• Software fun projects
• Reading books

🦄 Communicorn:

Community is my favorite thing in the universe! If you think we can have a serendipitous interaction, hit me up! I love to collaborate with others. ✨

• For research positions or other kinds of or collaboration feel free to send me an email and/or grab a time on my calendar
• If you are a tech-recruiter, please take the time to answer these two questions
• I host dinners and salons in Berlin. Themes we talked about include "The limits of free speech", "Spirituality and rituals", "Rethinking future socio-economic structures and institutions", "How to be moral", etc. If you are a Berliner or a passer-by and would like to join we welcome first-timers, just send me an email!
• I'm starting an intentional community house in Berlin to live with my friends, it's loosely centered around hacker-house, music making, scientific and spiritual exploration and just being a huge nerd. Again, if you are interested, please send me an email introducing yourself.

📝 Writing:

• Research blog: techforgoodresearch.substack.com
• Posts about open science softwares I maintain(ed): mari-meir.medium.com
• Personal blog where I explore computer science topics: cyborgdream.github.io
• Personal blog about my travellings that contemplate aspects of digital nomading and community building: wireless-hippie.github.io

• You can find a list here

"Typelists are devoid of any value: Their bodies are empty, they don't hold any state, and they don't define any functionality." - Alexandrescu

"To inform means to convey knowledge via facts. The purpose of that is to give shape to the mind." - Rich Hickey

"Life is short, craft long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult." - Hippocrates

"We are not studying in order to know what virtue is, but to become good, for otherwise there would be no profit in it." - Aristotle

"Moloch whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen! Moloch whose name is the Mind!" - Ginsberg