Roland Meertens

Why I built privacycard.meertens.dev — a free collection of shared supermarket loyalty cards, so you get the discount without the tracking.

How a wildcard DNS record pointing at GitHub Pages let strangers spin up scam subdomains on my own domain — and what should change.

Why I built passport-privacy.meertens.dev — a no-tracking, no-cookies, fully client-side, open-source watermarking tool for photos of your passport and ID documents.

Last month I wrote my experience with AI-generated coding on this blog.

I am trying to learn Japanese.

The last two months my work completely changed.

De verkiezingen komen eraan, en dus zijn er weer meerdere kieswijzers online.

This week I made a new project: a Tesla-coil powered Pikachu It’s essentially a 3D printed pikachu which emits sparks.

Looks like LinkedIn awarded me a “Top Programming Voice” badge.

How to efficiently create a machine learning dataset in a day — originally published on the Bumble Tech blog.

Having smart devices in your home is fun, but turning them off is still a hassle.

How to apply unit testing principles to perception systems in autonomous driving — originally published on the Kognic blog.

How the Kognic team won the Edge AnnotationZ challenge — originally published on the Kognic blog.

Recently I tried to improve my swimming skills.

This week the perseverance rover landed on mars A big congratulations for everyone at NASA who made this possible It’s a stunning engineering feat which I followed closely on Youtube.

Sending a neural network to the moon

Math is hard to understand.

This week it’s Halloween Time to dress up as something scary I decided that I wanted to make the mask of Jack Skellington, from “The Nightmare before...

Inspired by the show Pat and Mat (Buurman en Buurman in the Netherlands) I decided to build a remote controllable IKEA table.

Last week someone pointed out the Astyx dataset to me.

My favourite character in the Disney Pixar movie WALL-E is M-O.

I absolutely love everything related to space When decorating our apartment we decided to add a little ‘space corner’ in the hallway for all space related decoration.

In May 2020 Scale released their open Autonomous Driving dataset called Pandaset.

Currently, as the corona crisis is causing heavy lockdowns, people have to keep a social distance.

On May 1st 2020 I organised the first AI Meet VR event in Mozilla Hubs.

When working with data and neural networks it’s good to know whether similar data is close together.

A couple of years ago I made a visualization tool for the Google Cardboard that could show you a brain by looking around(..

A new year is approaching, which means that it’s time for everybody to think about new-years resolutions to improve your life.

If you work with self-driving cars you probably know about the vehicle coordinate system (also known as ISO 8855).

“The more you buy, the more you save”.

Last week the company I work for, Autonomous Intelligent Driving, held an open day for children.

In January I have been a machine learning engineer at Autonomous Intelligent Driving (AID) for exactly a year To summarize for myself what I learned, and to inspire others, I...

A while ago I started exploring the current state of voice interfaces and smart home technology.

In honor of the 20th of February, 2002, a palindromic date, Peter Norvig designed his worlds longest unique palindromic sentence of 21,012 words.

Two weeks ago I stumbled upon the concept of prime portraits.

A little over a year ago my girlfriend Lisette and I moved in together.

This weekend we got the second place in the Hack the Road Hackathon with our idea to let connected vehicles lead other vehicles through a “green wave”.

A few weeks ago I gave an introductory course to reinforcement learning with the OpenAI Gym environment.

Last week I discovered that there are bats behind my appartment.

In part 1 we got to know the openAI Gym environment(..

In part 1 we used a random search algorithm to “solve” the cartpole environment.

The OpenAI gym environment is one of the most fun ways to learn more about machine learning.

The Zalando python client

Visualising embeddings is a powerful technique It helps you understand what your algorithm learned, and if this is what you expected it to learn.

This weekend my dad turns 63.

Two weeks ago I put the neural voting advice application online (..

Volgende week zijn er verkiezingen in Nederland.

Next week the Netherlands will hold elections to choose who is going to represent the people in the house of representatives.

Last night Tensorflow held the Dev Summit 2017.

On 9 and 10 February, the 2017 edition of CLIN (Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands) was held.