Last Tuesday Paul van Herpt and I traveled to Lille for a special Machine Learning and Cycling Masterclass. As data partner of Soudal Quick-Step Pro Cycling Team, these are exactly the applications that touch where we as Transfer Solutions can make the difference. Hence Paul and I followed this special course from the IDLab (UGent – UAntwerpen – imec).
The author (left) and Paul van Herpt at the Masterclass Machine Learning in Lille.
Machine learning is already used a lot in sports. In soccer, for example, a huge amount of statistics is at hand: who has how long ball contact, who usually shoots to whom, makes the most runs, who is the most dangerous? That kind of data is already very easily traceable. And in tennis, it is easy to track the ball, calculate speed, etc..
In my spare time I do stage acting. And there is almost no better feeling having performed a play really well. But to do so, you need to learn your lines. Preferably you learn your text well in advance, so you also have time to play with it. Memorizing things Read more
Last June I made a short video while walking in the park next to the DIKW Intelligence office. And I posted it on LinkedIn. To my surprise it did very well. So I thought: why not make more of these short videos on data topics? And why not make them in somewhere in nature?
I’m on my bike almost every day this time of year. Surely I could make a short stop and do a little talk? I started to make them in Dutch and then also in English. (more…)
Five years ago I made the switch from Oracle database administration to data engineering. It has been quite a ride. I made a video about this to celebrate.
Last week my OAK-D Lite from Luxonis arrived. I can imagine you’ve never heard from it. Basically it is a camera that can do all kinds of AI tasks on the device itself. I got mine via Kickstarter. And where I say camera, I actually mean it has multiple cameras. That’s how it can see depth for example.
It can do much more. Load an algorithm, point it at the street next to your house and it starts detecting cars, cyclists and pedestrians. Load the human posture algorithm and it starts showing your posture. Or gestures, sign language, face recognition or COVID-19 mask detection.
So at the end of 2021 I found myself in the waiting room of an emergency dentist. An infection above my front teeth became unbearable. Fortunately antibiotics makes my live much better now. Let that event not colour my view on 2021. For me 2021 was a great year, despite Read more
When I first learned about graph databases, like Neo4J, I didn’t get it. That’s how I always start with new technology: not getting at all why people getting so enthusiastic about them. Then I read “Seven Databases in Seven Weeks, 2nd edition” (as reviewed in January). It describes Neo4J as Read more
