I’m Joe. Studied computer science and engineering at the TU Delft. Afterwards, I got a master’s degree in artificial intelligence from the University of Amsterdam. Currently doing a Ph.D. in explainable AI at CWI in Amsterdam, the Dutch research institute for maths and computer science (Python, among other things, came from here). As a side hustle, I run Matigekunstintelligentie, where I write articles, sell posters, and mainly just mess around with algorithms. My hobbies are: modular synthesis, making music (I have one song on the Traum Schallplatten label), urbexing, bouldering and reading non-fiction books (I have read The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins 4 times).
It is said that a joke is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies. Normally, I’d agree with this analogy, but the word Matigekunstintelligentie goes over the heads of anyone who doesn’t speak Dutch. If you are Dutch, skip over this paragraph to keep the frog croaking. Matigekunstintelligentie is a play on words on the term kunstmatige intelligentie, which means artificial intelligence. Matige means mediocre, kunst means art and intelligentie I will leave as an exercise to the reader. Mixing up the words gives mediocre art intelligence. This perfectly sums up what I do.
I have an interest in fractals, artificial intelligence, evolution, evolution + reinforcement learning, life-long learning, emergence, randomness, Gauss, determinism, real-time rendering, video compression, multi-objective optimisation, cellular automata, parallelism and game theory. This may give you an idea of what I will write about next.
The website is nowhere near ready, and I’m editing code in production (programmers, please don’t kill me). If you spot a mistake or want to know something, email me at matigekunstintelligentie@gmail.com.