Douwe Osinga's Blog: 2017

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Movie Recommendations

Today's project is a small Python notebook to recommend movies. I know, I know, there's a million of those out there, but this one ...

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Amazon Dash and Philips Hue

When the Amazon Dash came out a few years ago, I thought it was an April Fool's joke . A button that you install somewhere in your hou...

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Building a Reverse Image Search Engine using a Pretrained Image Classifier

In the Olden Days, say more than 10 years ago, building Image Search was really quite hard ( see xkcd ). In fact, when Alta Visa first came ...

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Learning to Draw: Generating Icons and Hieroglyphs

In this blog post we'll explore techniques for machine drawn icons. We'll start with a brute force approach, before moving on to mac...

Thursday, January 12, 2017

Deep Ink: Machine Learning fantasies in black and white

One of the New New Things in Machine Learning is the concept of adversary networks . Just like in coevolution , where both the leopard and t...

Monday, January 9, 2017

Building Spotify's Song Radio in 100 lines of Python

Somebody said that when it comes to deep learning, it is still very early days, Like 1995 (I was going to lookup the quote, but I can...