Programming

This site now has comments, right below this post. I didn’t want trackers, ads or cookie banners so I’m running Remark42, a small open-source, self-hosted comment engine.

I visited the python conference in Groningen: PyGrunn. On this page I collect some thoughts and learnings.

My wife is working on an embroidery project to recreate The Night Watch by Rembrandt. She wants to finish within 10 years. Because I like this type of thing I offered to help calculate if she was still on track.

I’ve been playing chess with my son recently. A well known variant of chess is Chess960, also known as Fischer Random Chess. I wanted to have a generator on my own website to use to generate starting positions by number. Previously I wrote a small python script to do this, so I decided to convert it to Javascript using google gemini and embed it here.

Over the years I have given many presentations about how to use machine learning to classify text documents. I wanted to create a notebook that would serve as a template for such presentations, allowing me to quickly demonstrate the process of text classification using machine learning techniques. The problem of text classification is a common task in natural language processing, where the goal is to assign predefined categories to text documents based on their content. This notebook demonstrates how to classify documents from the 20 Newsgroups dataset using a decision tree classifier. We will preprocess the text data, extract features using a bag-of-words model, train a classifier, and evaluate its performance.

Pim Pam Pet is a Dutch game that is played with cards. The game is played with a deck of cards that have different categories on them, such as animals, countries, and colors. The goal of the game is to collect as many cards as possible by being the first to shout out a word that fits the category on the card.

This year I intend to join Advent of Code again. While we wait to celebrate Christmas we can solve some programming puzzles together. This year I will join the ING leaderboards. You can also check out my solutions for Advent of code 2021, or see me publish my solutions for 2023.

Freedom has taken on a new dimension in the information age. The internet has transformed the way we interact, share information, and express our thoughts. It’s a powerful tool that has the potential to connect us with a global audience, yet the concept of freedom in this digital world is not as straightforward as it may seem.