Niels van der Molen

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How learning happens, and Evidence-Informed Learning Design – New knowledge acquired

When trying to master a new field it is difficult to find the right direction and resources from which to learn. I set out to learn more about the science of learning and teaching in order to create a tool (Naabu) for teachers and researchers. I read a few books Read more…

By nielsvandermolen, 3 days3 days ago
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What can we learn from “Peak”? A book review

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…

By nielsvandermolen, 11 months11 months ago
Docker

Remote development with Docker and Visual Studio Code in a breeze

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…

By nielsvandermolen, 2 years2 years ago
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 years2 years 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, 2 years1 year 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, 3 years3 years 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, 3 years3 years 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, 3 years3 years 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, 3 years3 years 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, 3 years3 years ago

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