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Category Archives: Active Learning
How I memorise my lines (and other things) with Anki
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Active Learning, Weird experiments
Tagged Anki, flashcards, learning, Memorisation, spaced repetition, Stage acting
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I started vlogging about data mesh (and other things)
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Active Learning, Data engineering
Tagged data bike ride, data mesh, vlogging
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Actually, you do security to stop these guys
Today I am studying for the Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate exam. And currently I’m going through some dry stuff on database security. Today I also read this article on Krebs on Security about the LAPSUS$ hackers who stole … Continue reading
Posted in Active Learning
Tagged awareness, azure, DP-203, Krebs on Security, Security
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Five years of data engineering
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.
First experiments with the OAK-D Lite
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Active Learning, Weird experiments
Tagged Edge AI, human pose recognition, Luxonis, OAK-D Lite, Spatial AI
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What a year 2021 has been
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Active Learning, Data engineering
Tagged astronomy, Certified Data Engineering Professional, cycling, Github, Hadoop, Kupka, Paris, vacation
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Neo4J: Loading rocket data in a graph database
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, … Continue reading
Posted in Active Learning, Howto, NoSQL
Tagged Cypher, graph database, Jonathan's Space Page, Neo4J, Seven Databases in Seven Weeks
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