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Published in Netherlands eScience Center

·Jul 19, 2022

What do entropy, entanglement, cosmology, life, and fake news have in common?

Report on the Information Universe 4 conference — (Answer to the above question below obligatory excruciatingly long-winded intro!) In the past week, I have rediscovered writing. Writing really hurts, you know… I’m pretty sure there should be workplace regulations for pen and paper safety, with regular mandatory hand massages against cramps and such. I guess my hand injuries…

Information Theory

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What do entropy, entanglement, cosmology, life, and fake news have in common?
What do entropy, entanglement, cosmology, life, and fake news have in common?
Information Theory

10 min read


Published in Netherlands eScience Center

·Mar 5, 2021

Automate chores with GitHub Actions

How I keep my Heroku web-app’s data up-to-date automatically — Scientists, open source developers, and basically probably most people, have to deal with one common obstacle in life: lack of funds to do all the stuff. In particular in science and open source software, we cannot be bothered to maintain the stuff we left behind (at least, not on the…

Automation

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Automate chores with GitHub Actions
Automate chores with GitHub Actions
Automation

5 min read


Published in Netherlands eScience Center

·Feb 19, 2021

Twitter Bots, for Science!

How to build a bot to show Covid-19 vaccination progress — Twitter bots have a really bad rep. Troll armies, spam, fake news… You name it, a bot’s done it. But what if we could harness their powers for good? Use bots to inform people in a fun way? That would be science outreach! It’s all in a name. Of course…

Twitter

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Twitter Bots for Science!
Twitter Bots for Science!
Twitter

9 min read


Feb 13, 2021

One Punch Man challenge

Part III of the Fitness for nerds series. — I’m not really sure how I got to this workout anymore, but for some reason, it really appealed to me. This Roam Strong article (my first Google hit) further provided me a practical way to build up to the actual workout and I’ve been doing that for two weeks now. …

Fitness

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One Punch Man challenge
One Punch Man challenge
Fitness

13 min read


Published in Netherlands eScience Center

·Nov 6, 2020

Coalition polls for the people with Coalitiewijzer

Build interactive web apps with polling data, Voilà & Heroku — Some time ago, I wrote about how the popular Dutch political compass site Kieskompas works, just before the Dutch provincial elections. Now, with the general elections coming up in March, I like to obsessively keep my eyes on the polls (although the past week I’ve mostly been obsessing over US…

Netherlands

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Coalition polls for the people with Coalitiewijzer
Coalition polls for the people with Coalitiewijzer
Netherlands

11 min read


Sep 7, 2020

Minimalist physical exercise

Written for minimalists — Part II.b of the Fitness for nerds series. — My previous post on minimalist physical exercise was a 10 minute read. The irony of this did not elude the minimalists of Reddit. For them, I wrote this minimalist version. We aim to please. The best minimalist physical exercises are (barefoot) running and body weight exercises. For both of these…

Minimalism

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Minimalist physical exercise
Minimalist physical exercise
Minimalism

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Sep 4, 2020

Minimalist physical exercise

Part II of the Fitness for nerds series. — Edit 7 Sep 2020: minimalist rewrite of this article here. I like minimalism. Clean desk, no-paper, closing unused browser tabs, you name it. And I’ve more or less applied it to my physical exercise as well, almost all my life. At least in hindsight. …

Fitness

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Minimalist physical exercise
Minimalist physical exercise
Fitness

10 min read


Jul 21, 2020

My long, boring origin story of failing at the sportsing (as a nerd)

Part I of the Fitness for nerds series. — I’m honestly not sure what help this would be to you. Maybe you’ll recognize something of your own situation and think: if this moron can do this sportsing, I sure as hell can do it a lot better. Maybe as a psychologist you’ll recognize the telltale signs of mental illness…

Failure

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My long, boring origin story of failing at the sportsing (as a nerd)
My long, boring origin story of failing at the sportsing (as a nerd)
Failure

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Jul 21, 2020

Fitness for nerds

Part 0. — I have no intrinsic interest in sports. I don’t really want to watch any, nor do I feel the need to play or perform most of it. I mean, I’m not against sports, it can be a nice social activity. But just sports for sports’ sake? Meh. However, I do…

Fitness

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Fitness for nerds
Fitness for nerds
Fitness

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Jul 13, 2020

Blogosphere!

I want to start blogging more often again. I’ve really enjoyed it in the past and feel like it will motivate me to dig into side projects more deeply. Trying to explain things to first myself and then others (after pressing the Publish button) really helps to keep momentum going. …

Blogging

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Blogosphere!
Blogosphere!
Blogging

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Patrick Bos

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