Bas Jacobs

I made a small website where you can browse kanji and visualize their radicals and phonetic components.

MNIST-1D (Greydanus & Steinbach, 2020) is a procedurally generated dataset that contains 1D-representations of the digits in the MNIST dataset.

In de podcast “We Love Nederlands” vertelt Yannick waaorm hij de naam Roelf zo mooi vindt.

I created a website www.wk-nhk.com that shows NHK Web Easy articles with custom furigana based on WaniKani level.

I vibe-coded a Safari extension that helps me practice Japanese while I am browsing the web.

The paper called Factors influencing roost use by Short-toed Treecreepers Certhia brachydactyla at urban sites, has been published.

Find in this repository an implementation of the CPPN-NEAT algorithm to create networks that represent images.

Inspired by British Placename Mapper, I thought I’d try to make such place name visualizations of the Netherlands myself.

A Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) is a neural network that incorporates knowledge about physical laws alongside data.

Last week’s Riddler Classic is a question about rolling tetrahedral dice: You have four fair tetrahedral dice whose four sides are numbered 1 through 4.

This week’s FiveThirtyEight Riddler Express is similar to the Riddler Classic of two weeks ago: By all accounts, Riddler Nation had a lot of fun hunting for the mysterious numbers a few weeks back.

This week’s FiveThirtyEight Riddler Classic offers a sudoku-like puzzle: There are eight three-digit numbers — each belongs in a row of the table below, with one digit per cell.

The EleksDraw pen plotter is a relatively cheap pen plotter that works like the better-known AxiDraw plotter.

I have always been fascinated by computer generated art.

Today’s 538 Riddler Classic is about eating chocolates: I have 10 chocolates in a bag: Two are milk chocolate, while the other eight are dark chocolate.

Trees and Tents is a logic game in which tents need to be placed in a grid.

For a project I was working on recently, I wanted to turn a ggplot scatterplot into an interactive visualisation: when hovering over a point, a corresponding image needed to be shown.

An image can be viewed as a function mapping pixel locations to color values .

I wanted a logo for my blog.

Inspired by this blog post, I got interested in pen plotters and computer generated art.