Andrea Nardi

I just finished a Deep Learning course at my university. One of the project that we needed to undertake was a reproducibility project, where my group mates and I try to reproduce a Deep Learning paper ’s code and results without checking its available code. I suggest you to read the original blog post. Something that I am especially proud of is the interactive plot in the blog post where you can see in real time the learning process and the corresponding resulting image. [Read More]

I Graduated!!! For all my followers out there, I graduated!!! I made this post a bit late, given that I graduated the 30th of June 2019. I graduated in “Data Science and Knowledge Engineering”. It might sound strange, but I felt like my graduation was more of something that was going to happen eventually, then something I worked hard for. What I think of my bachlor I did my bachlor in Maastricht University. [Read More]

The puzzle My roomate bought me a kid puzzle, from the second hand shop. The puzzle consists in putting the puzzle pieces in a 3x3 grid, such that all the animals on the edges match. It might look like an easy puzzle, but once, trying to solve the puzzle with my friends, we took a good 30 min to try to solve the puzzle. I already gave up on the puzzle after 5 min of trial, after I realized there are \(9! [Read More]

What is an ILP (Integer Linear Program) Introduction ILP stands for integer linear program. ILP are special way of stating an optimization problem for an ILP solver to solve. ILP are formulated such that there are a certain number of variables defined, there is an objective function that we want to maximize or minimize and there are linear constrains to the variables. What does the objective function usually look like? [Read More]

What is MSV Incognito? MSV Incognito is the study association of the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering, the University that I am currently studying in. MSV Incognito organizes events, like: drinks study sessions business days game lans educational talks and many more… MSV Incognito also organizes private tutoring sessions for students of the Department, handles logistics for university related events and they are the student representatives for decisions regarding the Department and the University. [Read More]

I celebrated Christmas with my roommates, Maria, Wim and Haniene. One of my roommates, Maria, is polish and we celebrated Christmas at her home town, Szczecin. When we arrived to Szczecin, we were warmly welcomed by Maria’s parents. We had Christmas dinner with them and ate traditional Polish Christmas dinner. My roommates and I during the Christmas dinners, we got affectionated with Maria’s dog, Kama. During the stay in Poland, we resided at Maria’s parents friend home. [Read More]

Test Post Hellooo World!!!! If you read this message, everything went well on the setup of my blog. I am so exited that I was able to create my own website/blog. This blog is powered through docker, nginx, hugo and letsencrypt (I pay 1.20 euros a month for this blog, too broke for anything higher). This blog will probably see some changes in the future. I will probably make a new blog post talking about how I made this blog in more details. [Read More]