Finn Hertsch

s.uregfpu@tzk.qr[unscramble]·[Google Scholar]

Dual Student in Data Science & AI at DHBW Ravensburg.
Researching geometric representation learning, self-supervised computer vision, and stream processing.
Wangen im Allgäu, Germany & Remote.

Research & Publications

[SKILL 2026 / arXiv]Kairos: Numerically Robust News Recommendation under Item Cold-Start via Cholesky-based LinUCB[Explorable][Slides]
Numerically stable LinUCB bandits with Cholesky updates on live streams. (Accepted at SKILL 2026, INFORMATIK Festival Dresden)

Code

github.com/F1nnSBK— Open source repositories, systems & research code.

Reading

Principles of Mechanical Sympathy— Martin Thompson & Martin Fowler on memory access patterns, cache lines, false sharing, and the single-writer principle.
What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory— Ulrich Drepper's canonical treatise on CPU caches and memory hierarchies.