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Felienne Hermans
Professor at Delft University of Technology
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I frequently speak about my spreadsheet research, social media and about presenting.
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At Delft I am the coordinator for the Bachelor End Project and teacher of the course 'Programming for the 99%'
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Realistic deep learning with Neo4j – Philip Winder
- 07
- May
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Deep learning is an attempt to mimic a human brain. It was tried in the 80s, but we have better techniques now, especially in terms of automated feature selection. A benefit of deep learning is that algorithms have lower bias and make less mistakes than humans. Examples of deep learning are generating written text from […]
How to name things – Peter Hilton
- 24
- Apr
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Naming is hard, George Orwell already knew that in 1946 when he wrote an essay about it. The rules for good naming: 1) Never use a metaphor, a figure of speech or something you have seen before, like a SomethingFactory 2) Never use a long word where a short would do, eg compnay_person_collection vs staff […]
Program you way out of a paper bag – Fran Buontempo
- 23
- Apr
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This talk is about Monte Carlo simulations. Sometimes, you cannot make a model upfront, so you can have randomness help you. Suppose you need to estimate a bloblike area. You can try to come up for a formula to describe the boundaries, or you could shoot darts at it and see how many hit the area. […]
History and Spirit of C and C++ – Olve Maudal
- 23
- Apr
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To understand how and why C was created, we need to go back in time, back to the EDSAC to be precise. How programming looked in those days: To really get into the inner workings of the EDSAC, Olve wrote FizzBuzz for it (so cool!) That you can try out in an emulator. This […]
What we talk about when we talk about unit testing – Kevlin Henney
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- Apr
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When we talk about testing, often the first thing that people think about is finding bugs. Small things like a crashing app, or catastrophic failures: This second one is interesting, as we know exactly what code causes it. This is “adatran” according to Kevlin: Ada written by Fortran programmers. The code was written […]
Popular posts
- Excel Turing Machine September 19, 2013 (24,260)
- An Empirical Study on Program Comprehension with Reactive… November 20, 2014 (5,770)
- Stop blaming spreadsheets (and take a good look in the… May 28, 2014 (3,198)
Recent Posts
- Realistic deep learning with Neo4j – Philip Winder May 7, 2015
- How to name things – Peter Hilton April 24, 2015
- Program you way out of a paper bag – Fran Buontempo April 23, 2015
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