Douwe Osinga's Blog: 2016

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Calculating the set of universal numbers

Frederick II allegedly tried to find out what the universal language of humanity was, by depriving a bunch of young children from any langu...

Sunday, November 20, 2016

The Jordan-Egypt Ferry

If you search the web for information about the ferry between Jordan and Egypt, you probably end up in a state of slight confusion. That is ...

Friday, October 21, 2016

WorldSizer

When I was 11 or so, I saw my first Times World Atlas . I was blown away. It was so much better in every way compared to the school atlas I...

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Styled Museums

The Prisma app became an overnight hit after it launched because of its great photo filters. Rather than just applying some face feature tr...

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Introducing Karakame

This weeks project is a camera project: Karakame . Sorry, Android guys, iOS only. The app takes 5 pictures with 3 seconds in between. After ...

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Semantics, Maps and Word2Vec

This week I published a new project: worldmapof . It uses Word2Vec to calculate the distance between a given word and the name of a country...

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Project: Offline Movie Reviews

I used my first week of freedom to write a little toy-app: Offline Movie Reviews . Airplanes don't fly faster than they did 40 years ...

Monday, September 12, 2016

Leaving Triposo

Wednesday, August 31 2016 was my last day as full time employee at Triposo , the travel guide company I started 5 years ago with my brothers...

Sunday, June 5, 2016

Predictions for Euro 2016

Two years ago I coded up a small python model to simulate the world cup . The results back then were more or line with what the general pred...

Saturday, January 2, 2016

Where the streets have no name

Growing up in the Netherlands I never considered that our system for street addresses wasn't obvious and therefore universal. Street , P...