The Zalando python client Shopping is probably in the top-5 of things I hate. Walking from store to store, having to wade through endless clothes you are NOT interested in – it’s a really inefficient experience. Luckily I found Zalando a few years ago: you order your clothes online with free shipping and free returns. The only thing that could…
Simple Introduction to Tensorboard Embedding Visualisation
Visualising embeddings is a powerful technique! It helps you understand what your algorithm learned, and if this is what you expected it to learn. Embedding visualisation is a standard feature in Tensorboard. Unfortunately many people on the internet seem to have some problems with getting a simple visualisation running. This is my attempt at creating the most simple code to…
Laser engraving a wine box
This weekend my dad turns 63. This year I created a very personal gift for him: a laser engraved wine box. Recently my local library opened a fab lab (fabrication laboratory). For only a few euros you are allowed to use the machines they have. With three 3D printers, a laser cutter, and a dye-sublimation printer, children can learn a lot…
What I learned developing the Neural Voting Advice Application
Two weeks ago I put the neural voting advice application online (http://www.pinchofintelligence.com/neural-voting-advice-application/). In this post, I look back at two aspects: the end-user aspect and the technical aspect. The first one will be interesting for people working with neural networks. The technical aspect might be useful for somebody else interested in deploying their Tensorflow or Keras application. Introduction For years…
Stemwijzer met kunstmatige intelligentie
Volgende week zijn er verkiezingen in Nederland. Met 28 partijen is dit een lastige keuze. Vaak orienteren mensen zich door een stemwijzer in te vullen. Door de 30 belangrijkste vragen van het moment in te vullen zoeken ze een partij die het beste bij ze past. Stemwijzer met kunstmatige intelligentie Al jaren denk ik dat dit beter moet kunnen. In…
Neural voting advice application
Next week the Netherlands will hold elections to choose who is going to represent the people in the house of representatives. There are 28 political parties participating, although there are 10 ‘big’ political parties most people choose from. As there are so many political parties people orient themselves on who to vote for using voting advice applications. Most of the…
Watching the TensorFlow Dev Summit 2017 – Livestream
Last night Tensorflow held the Dev Summit 2017. Although it was in California, they streamed all talks live through Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqLyrl-agOw). As I use Tensorflow a lot I loved watching some of the talks (together with 2500 other people watching live). This blog post is a summary of the first talks I watched before going to bed. First of all,…
Visiting the CLIN 2017 conference – Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands
On 9 and 10 February, the 2017 edition of CLIN (Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands) was held. As I work a lot with neural machine translation, automatic post editing, and translation quality estimation, this conference was very interesting to me! This post is a write-up of the most interesting talks I attended. At the moment neural methods are hot, also…
Creating photorealistic images with neural networks and a Gameboy Camera
In 1998 Nintendo released the Gameboy Camera. With this camera, it was possible to take images in a resolution of 256×224 pixels (or 0.05734 megapixels). The screen resized your image to 190×144 pixels and shows it in 4 shades of gray/green. Despite these limitations images you took are recognizable for us humans. In this post, I show my adventures in…
Explaining Neural Machine Translation to GALA members
Yesterday I presented an introduction to neural networks to GALA members: the Globalization and Localization Association. With the recent breakthrough of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) more and more people like to try this new technology. To effectively use NMT, you have to know how it works. This way you can understand what the advantages are compared to other translation methods, and…