For serious people, I have a CV ready to go.
For others, if you want to stick around I have some things I can tell you about myself.
I have spent quite some time at university learning about things. I did bachelors in Computer Science (Informatica) and Physics and Astronomy (Natuur- en Sterrenkunde) at the University of Amsterdam, and then a masters in Artificial Intelligence. I wrote or programmed some things during that time, but not many are interesting enough to show off. You can find a few recent projects on my GitHub, such as a library for simulating the Kuramoto system in Julia1 https://github.com/nardi/Kuramoto.jl and my own algorithm for dimensionality reduction/trajectory grouping2 https://github.com/nardi/DimensionGrouping.jl, which is basically an extended version of k-means. It works on trajectory data for entities and reduces the dimensionality by clustering them together in a time-consistent way, pretty cool.
Recently I finished my (philosophical) master thesis on explainable AI, a field which tries to make black-box machine learning systems (more) understandable. I tried to argue for an integrative, modular approach, and that it is possible to find some inspiration from research on cognitive architectures in psychology. You can read the resulting thesis here, or if you prefer a shorter, more accessible overview you can check out video of the talk I gave as final part of the process.
Before that I wrote two bachelors’ theses, which also have their stong points. For Computer Science, my thesis was about codifying the grammatical functions of pronouns in Dutch sign language (NGT)3 As you might expect, I wrote the thesis in Dutch as well, so it might not be interesting if you don’t speak Dutch.. It contains what I think is a nice introduction to multiple context-free grammars and the Grammatical Framework as a tool for implementing them.
For Physics, I did some research adjacent to the work by Greg Stephens, Tosif Ahamed, and others on the dynamics of C. elegans4 For example, see this paper, which contains a number of things I (less successfully) tried to investigate in my thesis as well.. My thesis focused on trying out some ‘standard’ dynamical system models to see if I could get a (characteristic) Lyapunov exponent spectrum which was qualitatively similar to the one found in embeddings of C. elegans data. It contains a reasonable accessible (if you know some math) yet comprehensive introduction to dynamical systems, Lyapunov exponents, and their algorithmic computation in chapters 2 and 3.
For a while I worked on an app called I-ACT which was meant to help people suffering from depression self-manage after their treatment ended. I also was part of the team behind a website called De Omslag, which provided a (curated) discussion platform about issues related to Dutch universities. Unfortunately, as none of us really had much time left to sustain the site it is now in an archival state.
I like music (very unique I know) and have played drums on and off for about 13 years. I’ve not really played in a band, mostly just for fun, but I did have some ‘practice performances’ as part of lessons I took of which there are some videos online5 Take a look: (1), (2). Some of my favorite bands/artists are: Protest the Hero, Run the Jewels, Louis Cole, Watsky, and Saba. Way back when I made some electronic music under the name Limner. Also, I recently started practicing bass guitar, and it’s pretty fun.
I’ve also done a lot of plays with amateur theater group Toneelgroep Morgana.
When I program stuff, it’ll be on my GitHub. When I write stuff, it’ll be on here. If you want, I’m on Facebook, Instagram, etc., just search (but maybe not if you don’t know me personally). If you want to get in contact, you should just send me an email at [email protected].