Almer S. Tigelaar
A Little Bit of Everything
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Does Science Need Rethinking?
People with a doctorate may recognize this moment: you realize there are few souls in your direct vicinity who have their feet so deep in the exact same ‘mud’ as you. You effectively ‘marry’ your topic...
Going ‘Viral’
Nowadays heaps of memes, videos and other content sweep across our collective retinas. As ever more people join the ranks of the ‘on-line’, and existing netizens spent more time there due to the still raging pandemic,...
Three Perspectives on the Pandemic
Since 2018 I own a board game called Pandemic. The goal of this cooperative board game is to slow down the spread of four diseases across the globe, while simultaneously finding a cure for each of...
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On Voting Systems
Voting is simple, right? You just choose a candidate or party and then vote. If everyone does this, the election outcome represents what the majority of people want, and the country gets the leadership that reflects...
Huffman Encoding
In this post we take a look at Huffman encoding. A way to efficiently compress sequences of characters by making use of their frequency.
Tenet
Tenet was the first major blockbusters to hit the theaters since the start of the corona pandemic. Delayed several times, it served as litmus test to see if people could be drawn back to the big...
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Chronoception
I was once took part in a class where the instructor performed an interesting experiment. He asked us all to close our eyes, and then raise our hands and open our eyes when each of us...
The Machine Learning Myth
“I was recently at a demonstration of walking robots, and you know what? The organizers had spent a good deal of time preparing everything the day before. However, in the evening the cleaners had come to...
Sleep
If you do not sleep you will die within months. Though, it’s unlikely that you would voluntarily stay awake twenty four hours for days at a time, modern society with its many distractions, makes it tempting...
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Hugo
Hugo is based on a relatively recently released (2007) award winning book by Brian Selznick. It is not surprising that the film rights to the books were quickly sold, and certainly not by the least of...
The Pet Detective
This video is the result of a collaboration among many people, see the ending credits for details. A brief history: during the first CMU Filmmaking Club meeting a representative of every group had to draw a...
Comptine d’un autre été – L’après-midi (Tiersen)
A recording of Yann Tiersen’s popular song, also featured in the movie Amélie.
Popular Posts
How Big is the Web?
The World Wide Web is the most visible part of the Internet consisting of a very large collection of pages. We all know that the web is big, but: how big is it really, and how...
Renewed Keyboard Joy: Dvorak
Typing: you do it every day nearly unconsciously. You think of what you want to appear on the screen. This is followed by some rattling sound and the next instant it is there. The blinking cursor...
Drive
Truth be told, I wasn't really aware of Ryan Gosling before Drive, although I vaguely recalled him from Remember the Titans. Shame on me, as he delivers a convincing performance in Drive as a man of...
