This post is aimed to learn lessons from the “Peak: Secrets from the New Science Of Expertise” by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool that we can apply to improve an education tool that I am building for the last year. Building mental representations According to “Peak” the goal of deliberate Read more…
My old setup was a dual boot desktop with Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10. Ubuntu is mainly for the great support for development tools like Docker and I used it because my production systems run in Linux. As a gamer and hobby game developer, Windows is a must. Recently, I Read more…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
