Odin Hoff Gardå

↪︎ Assorted

Miscellaneous things that don't fit anywhere else.


Writing, slides and other readables

  • Digitaliseringsminister på feilspor: A commentary I wrote in Khrono on the Minister of Digitalization’s AI strategy, emphasizing the importance of explainable AI and long-term investment in Norwegian AI competence. Hasty adoption risks bias, ethical issues, and loss of public trust. (In Norwegian.)

  • Plankton Workshop Slides: Slides from my talk “Rotation Invariant Learning on Contours” at the plankton workshop organized by the Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Bergen, Norway, 2025. These ideas are now crystallized in the RotaTouille paper (see Research).

  • Master’s Thesis: My master’s thesis on multicomplexes over a field and their associated spectral sequences. Supervisor: Markus Szymik.

  • Multicomplexes over a field (Slides): Slides for my presentation on multicomplexes given at the Topology seminar, November 2022 at the University of Bergen mathematics department.

  • Bachelor’s Thesis: My bachelor’s thesis about 2-dimensional topological quantum field theories and their connection to Frobenius algebras, closely following Joachim Kock’s book. Supervisor: Claudia Scheimbauer.

  • AI in Healthcare: Are We Jumping the Gun?: An essay I wrote about some of the ethical issues related to the application of AI in health care. Originally for a course on ethics I took as part of my PhD. I’m not negative to AI in general, but I think there are some important issues that need to be addressed before we can safely deploy AI in high-stakes areas like healthcare.

  • Q-Learning Tutorial Slides: Slides from a tutorial I gave on Q-learning for students taking an introductory programming course (INF100) at the University of Bergen, spring 2024. (In Norwegian.)

  • The topology of flight paths: Promo slides for a master’s thesis project I have proposed where we study flight traffic data using topological data analysis. I am currently co-supervising a master’s student working on this project at the University of Bergen, so stay tuned for results!


Music

I sometimes make music on my computer. From DoReMiX on Windows 95, to eJay, Nuendo, Cubase, Fruity Loops (now FL Studio) and Ableton, I am now mainly using Renoise and MilkyTracker on Linux. My tracker music (aka “chiptunes” or music modules) are on The Mod Archive. Some music is also to be found on my SoundCloud and YouTube channel.