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Ethics

Maximize the number of people that are content

For some people, it is important to have an explicit moral compass and have a set of heuristics that can guide you through life. They want to do things that are good and that have meaning. Thinking is hard work and the need for each person to finds their own Read more…

By nielsvandermolen, 2 months1 month ago
Politics

Interreflections a movie review and my thoughts on Peter Joseph

To review Interreflections we need to understand Peter Joseph. He is a filmmaker but also the creator of the zeitgeist movement. For better or worse, Peter has played a major influence on the way I look at society. In hindsight, Peter clearly followed the spirit of the times from being Read more…

By nielsvandermolen, 5 months5 months ago
API

Uploading files using Node.js as an API Gateway to an external API using Svelte/Sapper

Following the documentation of API Platform, we start with an API that accepts the multipart/form-data format. We use Sapper (Node.js+Express) as an API gateway. First, we need to send a local file from Svelte to the Sapper server. Sapper then receives the file and calls external API. Sending the file Read more…

By nielsvandermolen, 9 months9 months ago
Emotion detection

Thesis emotion detection Chapter 1. Introduction

This research investigates the use of sentiment analysis technologies to extract affective states of users from text. A dataset of text annotated on affect by human raters was needed to test the affect detection algorithms. No such dataset was available, therefore data from the e-community Greenwire was annotated on affect Read more…

By nielsvandermolen, 10 months10 months ago
Emotion detection

Publishing my thesis work – Emotion detection using sentiment analysis

For my master thesis in “human media interaction” at the University of Twente, I worked on applying sentiment analysis technologies to emotion detection in online communities. I am proud of this work which took 10 months of programming and writing and I felt it deserved to be digitalized from PDF Read more…

By nielsvandermolen, 10 months10 months ago
Svelte

Exploring reactivity in Svelte JS with real-world examples

So, we all saw the presentation by Rich Harris, the creator of the Svelte Javascript compiler, and are excited about implementing spreadsheet reactivity in our projects. However, even though the concept is easy to grasp when looking at simple examples implementing reactivity is sometimes not obvious when working with real Read more…

By nielsvandermolen, 12 months12 months ago
Davinci Resolve

How to get Davinci Resolve 16 to work in Linux Ubuntu 18.04

Davinci Resolve has official support for Linux since version 15. However, when trying to install it I ran into a few issues. I have an AMD video card so I can not give instructions for the NVIDIA drivers but the concepts are the same. I hope this article helps in Read more…

By nielsvandermolen, 1 year1 year ago
Andrew Yang speaking in front of flag
Politics

Why can Andrew Yang win the 2020 presidency?

Even though I do come from the Netherlands I am an enthusiastic follower of the presidential elections. Furthermore, when a tech-minded startup guy runs on the platform based on a universal basic income (Freedom dividend) policy it is difficult to not to watch every interview, debate, and rally he conducts. Read more…

By nielsvandermolen, 1 year1 year ago
Svelte

How to use external Javascript libraries (e.g. Stripe.js) in SvelteJS

There are many javascript libraries that give a lot of functionality out of the box which we normally include with a <script src=”url”></script> in the header section of the HTML page. In this article, we explain a method to do use these libraries in SvelteJS components. In doing so we Read more…

By nielsvandermolen, 1 year1 year ago
Svelte

A good authentication example, Sapper sessions, Svelte Store

For my new architecture with microservices and Svelte, a vital implementation detail is the authentication and authorization mechanisms. In the last article, there was an example of how to build the signup component and in this example, we take a look at sessions. The final result is basic account creation Read more…

By nielsvandermolen, 2 years2 years ago

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