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Starmind congratulates Hecke Schrobsdorff to be the first Starmind user to achieve Partner Level within the Starmind know-how company. The prestigious rank is a result from over hundred excellent solutions handed in and various awards achieved on Starmind.
Hecke was invited to the Starmind Headquarter end of July 26, 2011 where Marc Vontobel and Pascal Kaufmann expressed their respect and acknowledgement.

Short portrait on Hecke Schrobsdorff, 33, Germany:

During Hecke’s studies of mathematics and physics with computer science he became more and more attracted by computational neuroscience, which yielded to a PhD about the computational investigation of the psychological problem of selective attention. Hecke is married and has 3 children between age 1, 3 and 5y.x

7 questions, 7 answers from Hecke Schrobsdorff

1.) If I was awarded a Nobel prize it would be in the field of….
…modesty. No, seriously, I can not imagine anything on my scientific path that would be eligible for a Nobel price.

2.) On the other hand, my sore points are…
…self-motivation. Often, I need someone else to become productive.

3.) I share my know-how on Starmind because…
…I like to help others. Also I appreciate the affirmation that I really learned stuff that is of interest to others.

4.) The most interesting Starmind question so far was…
…Don Berry’s question on the difference between an event being impossible or possible with probability zero.

5.) When I am not busy answering Starmind questions I…
…Care about my children, crawl the web for crazy pics, play underwaterrugby with my first leagues team, oh sometimes I work.

6.) I believe that in ten years…
…there will be either a lot of working alternatives for using coal, gas or uranium to produce electricity, or no lights due to the lack of resources.

7.) If I ruled the world…
…it would be even more chaotic than now. I would socialize the most important commercial sectors, provide free access to health care, any form of education and knowledge and public transportation, and ban money. Than I would look for smart people that deal with the consequences.

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Starmind partner

Daniel Moser, 21, St. Gallen, Switzerland
I’m a 21 years old Business Administration student at the University of St. Gallen. For Starmind I’m helping as Intelligence Officer to establish this excellent service.

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-> Solved Starmind questions

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Starmind Bronze Brain

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7 questions, 7 answers from Daniel Moser

1.) If I was awarded a Nobel prize it would be in the field of….
…creativity or boulevard knowledge.

2.) On the other hand, my sore points are…
…higher mathematics.

3.) I share my know-how on Starmind because…
…because my know-how helps other people to solve their problems.

4.) The most interesting Starmind question so far was…
…“Urzeit Code und Antigravitation: Was ist davon zu halten?” by Peter Ebner. It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. I love conspiracies.

5.) When I am not busy answering Starmind questions I…
…I’m studying at the university or I’m watching stupid reality shows with my flatmates.

6.) I believe that in ten years…
…I’ll drive an Apple car called iCar, with a touch screen steering wheel.

7.) If I ruled the world…
…I would build funky space ships. Thus humanity is able to explore the universe, trade and communicate with other species and fight the “death star”.

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Amancio Bouza, 31, Zürich, Switzerland
I’m a doctoral student at the Department of Informatics at the University of Zurich. I’m doing research in the field of machine learning, probabilistic graphical models, Semantic Web technologies and it’s application to collaborative filtering-based recommender systems.

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-> Solved Starmind questions

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Starmind Master

7 questions, 7 answers from Amancio Bouza

1.) If I was awarded a Nobel prize it would be in the field of….
…imagination.

2.) On the other hand, my sore points are…
…expecting too much from anyone, especially from myself.

3.) I share my know-how on Starmind because…
…of intrinsic motivation and because I think my know-how may be of value.

4.) The most interesting Starmind question so far was…
…”How many leafs hang on all trees on earth?”, by Susanne Guldner. I’m fascinated about such questions that are not solvable with knowledge solely, but with know-how.

5.) When I am not busy answering Starmind questions I…
…spend time implementing crazy ideas and challenge myself among other things with training my self for my first Marathon and gathering new knowledge to get new perspectives on understanding problems and be prepared facing them

6.) I believe that in ten years…
…the evolution of mankind’s knowledge and the world will be just impressive.

7.) If I ruled the world…
…it will end in a great disaster because complex dynamic systems such as our world are self-oganizing and self-repairing systems that cannot  and shouldn’t be ruled by a single instance.

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