Rhizomes as transistors
There is a natural similarity between a rhizome's relation and how modern transistors work. As it turns out, we could actually build a rhizome (with limitations) using transistors. Have a look at the following example.
05 Feb 2017
29 Nov 2016
Yes, but I'm a software engineer...
Being a software engineer is not an excuse to complain about your data science colleagues. You don't have to become an expert in machine-learning or statistical analysis, but it's actually a lot of fun to dive a little deeper into some of these topics and learn more about, let's say, categorisation algorithms. And it even looks sexy in your CV.
29 Nov 2016
Yes, but I'm a data scientist...
Being a data scientist is no excuse for writing sloppy code. Yeah, I know that Java is not your first coding language, but you should really not write spaghetti code.
18 Apr 2016
How to implement a text mining engine
There are various text mining libraries, packages and tools available, many of them as freeware. Yet, when it comes to putting it all together in an enterprise environment, there is actually not too much information available on the web. This article is about how I would design a general-purpose text mining engine that is fit for today's standard Java-stack enterprise environment and the typical problems one encounters in these environments. A lot of what I write below is from hands-on experience with existing tools and the typical difficulties I had.
10 Jan 2016
Reading from and writing to files in Apache Camel
I had assumed that reading from and writing to files in Apache Camel v2.16.1 should be a straight-forward thing to accomplish. Turns out I was wrong. It took me quite a while to figure out the correct syntax of the from and to commands.
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