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Sander Bouwhuis
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- Dat was een hele leuke avond met de @G500NL kickoff in Amsterdam! Dit gaat nog heel interessant worden de komende maanden..
- Op aanraden (lang, lang geleden) van @ebvrNOS de serie "Boss" aan het kijken. Bijna af. Wow. Borgen eat your heart out.
- That makes sense. Bleker als bliksemafleider voor Buma.. http://t.co/lvU7vQjh
- AL het water op de wereld is eigenlijk maar een heel lullig druppeltje. #perspectief http://t.co/5GuD8hFJ http://t.co/5SP5Ph0U
- Aangemeld. Ik kijk er naar uit! RT @G500NL: Iets later dan gepland, maar de uitnodigingen voor de regiobijeenkomsten zijn zojuist verzonden!
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- Technical Consultant at MatchMindsInformation Technology and Services | Amsterdam Area, Netherlands, NLExperience
- Jun 2010 - PresentTechnical Consultant / MatchMinds
- Jul 2009 - May 2010Software Developer / Dandelion GroupAs a software developer I designed, developed and maintained the flagship social network-based knowledge management tool of Dandelion Group, which was deployed at various medium to large companies in the Netherlands.
- Jan 2008 - Jul 2009Scientific Intern / NS ReizigersAs part of my Masters Degree course at the University I arranged for an internship at the Dutch Railways (NS), where I researched the possibilities of a decentralized, agent-based system for controlling regional train dispatching procedures. My final Thesis on this subject (titled "Agent-based Train Dispatching") is available at http://cl.ly/6pfC
- Oct 2005 - Dec 2008Operator / OGD AmsterdamDuring my time at the university i worked here part-time, performing various types of work such as technical support, systems/network administration and hardware migration programs at various institutions, such as the Dutch Media Authority, the Province of Flevoland and Tele2.
Education-
2007 - 2009Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamMSc in Artificial Intelligence
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2007 - 2008Universiteit van AmsterdamArtificial Intelligence
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2002 - 2007Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamBSc in Kunstmatige Intelligentie (Artificial Intelligence)
Activities: Participated in DECOI Summerschool on Collective Intelligence 2006. -
1996 - 2002Jac. P. ThijssecollegeVWO in Economics & Society
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Interests:science, complexity, politics, dataviz, space, skepticism
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Posts
- Aug 21, 11
From Caitlin: I was trying to text that my cat Butch would not get out of my car.
- Aug 04, 11
Stephen calls on the Colbert Nation to send in more suggestions for the direction of his Super PAC, in addition to more money.
- Aug 02, 11
I don't care what his next movie is about. I'll pay to go see it.
I notice who's doing the interview: Libertarians. Screw 'em.
Read the comments on this post... - Jun 28, 11Update: For our international readers, this post is also available in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. - Ed.
Among the most basic of human needs is the need to connect with others. With a smile, a laugh, a whisper or a cheer, we connect with others every single day.
Today, the connections between people increasingly happen online. Yet the subtlety and substance of real-world interactions are lost in the rigidness of our online tools.
In this basic, human way, online sharing is awkward. Even broken. And we aim to fix it.
We’d like to bring the nuance and richness of real-life sharing to software. We want to make Google better by including you, your relationships, and your interests. And so begins the Google+ project:
+Circles: share what matters, with the people who matter most
Not all relationships are created equal. So in life we share one thing with college buddies, another with parents, and almost nothing with our boss. The problem is that today’s online services turn friendship into fast food—wrapping everyone in “friend” paper—and sharing really suffers:- It’s sloppy. We only want to connect with certain people at certain times, but online we hear from everyone all the time.
- It’s scary. Every online conversation (with over 100 “friends”) is a public performance, so we often share less because of stage fright.
- It’s insensitive. We all define “friend” and “family” differently—in our own way, on our own terms—but we lose this nuance online.
From close family to foodies, we found that people already use real-life circles to express themselves, and to share with precisely the right folks. So we did the only thing that made sense: we brought Circles to software. Just make a circle, add your people, and share what’s new—just like any other day:
+Sparks: strike up a conversation, about pretty much anything
Healthy obsessions inspire sharing, and we’ve all got one (or two, or three...). Maybe it’s muscle cars, or comic books, or fashion, but the attraction is always the same: it comes up in conversation, we immediately jump in, and we share back and forth with other fans. Often for hours. The trick is getting things started, and getting over that initial hump. Fortunately, the web is the ultimate icebreaker.
The web, of course, is filled with great content—from timely articles to vibrant photos to funny videos. And great content can lead to great conversations. We noticed, however, that it’s still too hard to find and share the things we care about—not without lots of work, and lots of noise. So, we built an online sharing engine called Sparks.
Thanks to Google’s web expertise, Sparks delivers a feed of highly contagious content from across the Internet. On any topic you want, in over 40 languages. Simply add your interests, and you’ll always have something to watch, read and share—with just the right circle of friends:
+Hangouts: stop by and say hello, face-to-face-to-face
Whether it's inside a pub or on a front porch, human beings have always enjoyed hanging out. And why not? It's how we unwind, recharge, and spend unscheduled time with old and new friends alike. Hanging out is deceptively simple though, and the nuance gets lost online.
Just think: when you walk into the pub or step onto your front porch, you're in fact signaling to everyone around, “Hey, I've got some time, so feel free to stop by." Further, it’s this unspoken understanding that puts people at ease, and encourages conversation. But today’s online communication tools (like instant messaging and video-calling) don’t understand this subtlety:- They’re annoying, for starters. You can ping everyone that’s “available,” but you’re bound to interrupt someone’s plans.
- They’re also really awkward. When someone doesn't respond, you don't know if they’re just not there, or just not interested.
+Mobile: share what’s around, right now, without any hassle
These days a phone is the perfect sharing accessory: it's always with you, it's always online, and it's how we stay close with our closest friends. We didn’t want “just” a mobile experience, however, so with Google+ we focused on things (like GPS, cameras, and messaging) to make your pocket computer even more personal.
+Location, location, location
In life, the places we visit shape conversations in lots of meaningful ways. If we call John from the airport, he’ll likely ask about our trip. Or if Jane texts from a nearby restaurant, we might join her for dessert. With Google+ you can add your location to every post. (Or not. It’s always up to you.)
+Instant Upload
Getting photos off your phone is a huge pain, so most of us don't even bother. Of course pictures are meant to be shared, not stranded, so we created Instant Upload to help you never leave a photo behind. While you're snapping pictures, and with your permission, Google+ adds your photos to a private album in the cloud. This way they're always available across your devices—ready to share as you see fit.
+Huddle
Coordinating with friends and family in real-time is really hard in real life. After all, everyone's on different schedules, in different places, and plans can change at any moment. Phone calls and text messages can work in a pinch, but they're not quite right for getting the gang together. So Google+ includes Huddle, a group messaging experience that lets everyone inside the circle know what's going on, right this second.
Starting today Google+ is available on Android Market and the mobile web, and it’s coming soon to the App Store.
+You: putting you first, all across Google
That’s the Google+ project so far: Circles, Sparks, Hangouts and mobile. We’re beginning in Field Trial, so you may find some rough edges, and the project is by invitation only. But online sharing needs a serious re-think, so it’s time we got started. There’s just one more thing—really the only thing: You.
You and over a billion others trust Google, and we don’t take this lightly. In fact we’ve focused on the user for over a decade: liberating data, working for an open Internet, and respecting people’s freedom to be who they want to be. We realize, however, that Google+ is a different kind of project, requiring a different kind of focus—on you. That’s why we’re giving you more ways to stay private or go public; more meaningful choices around your friends and your data; and more ways to let us know how we’re doing. All across Google.
When your invite arrives we hope you’ll join the project. But it’s entirely up to +You.
Posted by Vic Gundotra, Senior Vice President, Engineering - Jun 14, 11
Zou het de naderende start van de Tour de France zijn, is het zomer die er aankomt of gewoon een combinatie van die twee?
We krijgen de laatste tijd weer veel vragen over de beschikbaarheid van de NOS ringtones en dan met name de NOS deuntjes rondom Radio Tour de France.
Vol trots kunnen we melden dat de Ringtones weer voor iedereen beschikbaar zijn.
Hier kun je ze al vast beluisteren:
x Tune Radio Tour de France
x Tourflits
x Finishtune Tour de France
x Tune Langs de Lijn
x (oude) leadermuziek Studio Sport
x Begintune Radio 1 Journaal
x Eindtune Radio 1 Journaal
x Begintune Met het Oog op Morgen
x Leader Jeugdjournaal
x Toeter Tour de France
De mp3 tunes zijn direct te downloaden naar je mobiele telefoon door deze pagina in de browser van je mobiele telefoon op te zoeken. De URL is: http://app.nos.nl/ringtones/index.html
Update: Een aantal mensen vraagt zich af hoe ringtones op de iPhone moeten worden gezet. Instructies staan o.a. hier besproken.
Veel plezier er mee!
- May 24, 11<Artifice> the cat experiment was a counter example created by heisenberg himself, to prove some guys were being stupid
<Artifice> Sadly, the stupid guys were "That's awesome!"
<Artifice> Oh, it was Schrodinger. Whoops
<ZorbaTHut> heisenberg's cat is the one that's either running frantically around a room at unknown velocity, or sleeping, somewhere, but you don't know where.
<Artifice> So, just a regular fucking cat
<ZorbaTHut> Yeah pretty much. - May 17, 11
The "wisdom of the crowd" has become a bit of a pop cliché, but it's backed up by real-world evidence. When groups of people are asked to provide estimates of obscure information, the median value of their answers will often be remarkably close to the right one, even though many of their answers are laughably wrong. But crowds rarely act in the absence of social influences, and some researchers in Zurich have now shown that providing individuals information about what their fellow crowd-members are thinking is enough to wipe out the crowd's wisdom.
As the authors of the paper point out, the wisdom of a crowd is actually a statistical phenomenon. Many people have some very rough sense of a given value—in this case, things like the length of Switzerland's border with Italy or its murder rate—but don't know the precise figure. As long as their answers are just as likely to be above or below the actual value, the mis-estimations should cancel each other out. "The wisdom of crowds effect works if estimation errors of individuals are large but unbiased such that they cancel each other out," as the authors put it. That places the mean of the answers somewhere in the neighborhood of the correct one. In some cases, the crowd will actually do better than a group of experts.
The authors, however, realized that most decision making takes place in a social environment—people talk among themselves, compare answers, and get various forms of feedback. So, they decided to test how these processes might influence the wisdom of a crowd. To do so, they asked a panel of a dozen people the same question five times, allowing the participants to change their answer each time. To make sure the answers were serious attempts at getting it right, financial rewards were offered based on the accuracy of the guesses.
- Feb 23, 11
NASA’s space shuttle Discovery is queued up for its final mission Thursday Feb. 24 at 4:50 p.m. Eastern time, but you don’t need to race to the Space Coast to catch the action.
Thanks to the magic of the internet (and taxpayer dollars), you can watch Discovery and the two other final shuttle flights this year in high-definition, for free.
If space agency technobabble isn’t your thing, worry not: A handful of space-obsessed videocasters rip the NASA TV feed and provide their own user-friendly live shows.
Below are three of the best internet streams able to cater to any flavor of space geek. To watch future space shuttle and other missions, bookmark this page and check NASA’s TV schedule (PDF) and launch schedule.
1. Spacevidcast
Hosted by super-fans of space, Benjamin and Cariann Higginbotham, Spacevidcast is perhaps the most street-friendly source of live mission commentary available.
The duo reads and responds to chatroom banter during their coverage, making for an engaging, but sometimes noisy, experience. This year, Spacevidcast plans to take video call-in questions from readers using Vokle.
2. Spaceflight Now
When CNN gave veteran space journalist Miles O’Brien the boot in December 2008, he joined Spaceflight Now’s webcasting team.
O’Brien brings high-profile guests onto the show to help with mission commentary, including former astronauts and NASA mission managers. Expect a mix of traditional journalism and humor geared toward space enthusiasts.
3. NASA TV
Since its inception, NASA has a long tradition of providing live mission commentary. Unfortunately, NASA TV first timers can find the government-sponsored feed a tough multimedia pill to swallow.
For purists who have learned the cryptic language associated with human spaceflight, however, it’s the stream to watch.
Image: Space shuttle Discovery is lugged out to launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on January 17, 1997. (NASA) [high-resolution version available]
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- May 11, 11
It’s one of our guiding principles that data beats opinion. With that in mind, our marketing team has put a lot of effort into posing interesting questions—How do new mothers use the Internet? When do people really start their holiday shopping? What trends typify today’s Hispanic web user?—and answering them with concrete information to help marketers make better informed decisions.
Starting today, we’re sharing this knowledge at Think Insights with Google, a website where we’ll publish our data-supported insights about digital marketing trends. From papers to case studies to videos, Think Insights represents the ongoing work we’re doing to better understand how people use the web, and how marketers are adapting to this changing terrain. We’ll update the site frequently, so if you'd like to keep up with our latest news, sign up for email alerts to satisfy your monthly Think Insights fix.
Posted by Jenny Liu, Senior Product Marketing Manager - Apr 28, 11
Апрель, 1945/2010, Германия, город Форст. Начало наступления 1-го Украинского фронта.
April, 1945/2010, Germany, Forst (Lausitz), Triebeler Str.
Редко увидишь на живой фотографии настоящий бой. Когда я нашел в Красногорском архиве этот снимок, мне невероятно захотелось отыскать это же место . Аннотация гласила, что здесь изображено наступление 1-го Украинского фронта в г. Форст. Как оказалось, в Германии три города с таким именем. Но в полосе наступления маршала Конева находился только один. Уже легче.
Я стал искать в интернете что-нибудь, что помогло бы сориентироваться, где же искать это место. Ведь если на фотографии здания не разрушены, а наши уже ворвались в город, значит эти дома могут стоять и по сей день. Так и получилось, на одном из немецких риэлторских сайтов я нашел современное фото этого здания в целости и сохранности. Решено. Взяв в Берлине напрокат автомобиль, я рванул на поиски. Преодолев около 150 километров, я обнаружил, что въезд в город был перекрыт дорожными работами, пришлось ехать в объезд со стороны польской границы. И - вот удача - дорога в объезд привела меня прямо к этому месту.
На фотографии показано самое начало наступления 1-го Украинского фронта, когда войска маршала Конева форсировали реку Нейсе и захватили плацдарм в г. Форст, через который затем будут введены танковые соединения и направлены хитрым маневром на север, к Берлину, что сыграло значительную роль в штурме столицы Рейха.
Бойцы на фотографии прошли около километра от переправы.Еще впереди последние, самые трудные бои. Но Победа уже ощущается в воздухе. Этих бойцов ничто не остановит.
С наступающим! - Mar 26, 11
For Teh Lulz of the Day: Mark you calendar, bookmark this webcam: If all goes according to plan, on May 13th @ 7:30 PM, by the pay phones on 46th & Broadway, there will either be a pissed-off pack of angry OkCupid members looking for love in all the wrong places, or the inaugural get-together of the greatest group of BFFs 4chan has ever inadvertently assembled.
Tagged: 4chan, Flashmob, For Teh Lulz, forever alone - Feb 28, 11In June 2010, a team of scientists and intrepid explorers stepped onto the shore of the lava lake boiling in the depths of Nyiragongo Crater, in the heart of the Great Lakes region of Africa. The team had dreamed of this: walking on the shores of the world's largest lava lake. Members of the team had been dazzled since childhood by the images of the 1960 documentary "The Devil's Blast" by Haroun Tazieff, who was the first to reveal to the public the glowing red breakers crashing at the bottom of Nyiragongo crater. Photographer Olivier Grunewald was within a meter of the lake itself, giving us a unique glimpse of it's molten matter. (The Big Picture featured Olivier Grunewald's arresting images of sulfur mining in Kawah Ijen volcano in East Java, Indonesia, in a December 2010 post.) -- Paula Nelson (28 photos total)The view from the volcano’s rim, 11,380 feet above the ground. At 1,300 feet deep, the lava lake has created one of the wonders of the African continent.
- Feb 07, 11
- Jan 26, 11
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- THING ONE: So I've been reading this site called The Nintendo Project: An 8-Bit Psychochronography where this dude is playing through every NES game in alphabetical order and talking about them. These posts in particular are ones that I wanted to point out. Sometimes the posts go a bit into self-parody, but when they're on they are TOTALLY ON. I mention this because I've found them inspiring for a few comics! Today's comes from a reference to Quantum Immortality (in a different sense) from this review. If you're into longer reads spurred by video games and big into secret histories, I recommend them!
- THING TWO: You can get signed copies of my new AND awesome book! It's for this week only.
You can get the book signed to whoever you want AND you can specify what clothes you want T-Rex to wear. I WILL DRAW T-REX IN THE HAT OF YOUR CHOOSING. This is the future, and we live in it!
– Ryan
