This post is the first in a longer series on my experiences with online education, stay tuned 🙂 In the summer of 2014, I wrote a proposal to get money from the university to make a MOOC: a massive open online course. They granted the proposal, and I made a MOOC! It was a success, […]
Bidding no trump [Desiderius part 3]
No clue what this is about? Read the previous posts on my Bridge bot Desiderius first. Bidding without a trump! Now that we have hands with cards, we can start defining bids. As explained, in bridge a bid is defined with two values: the number of tricks you think you can make. The lowest you can […]
Data Types for Desiderius – [part 2]
In case you missed it, I picked up my old hobby of playing bridge, but because I do not have any friends to play with, I am making a Bridge Bot. My ultimate goal is to participate in the World Championships of Computer Bridge. The basic data types I started by creating a few abstract […]
Getting a computer to play Bridge
When I was a teenager, my best friend Hugo invited me to join him on his family vacation with his parents. There was one condition though, I had to learn bridge so we could play every night. His parents tried to get his brother and sister to play, but they denied, so I had to […]
On changing your mind: Black Pete
This is me in blackface ‘Zwarte Piet’ (Black Pete) in 2010. At this party, a Chinese colleahue approached me and basically said that this was kinda no ok. And I was like “what? no! this is a party!” But now, I would not do blackface again! Slowly over time I have come to realize that […]
