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Maarten van Gompel
My name is Maarten van Gompel, also known as proycon on the internet. Welcome to my homepage where I share some of my work and interests. I live in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, with my boyfriend Hans and our dog Jaiko. I have a great passion for languages and technology, and especially those areas where they meet! I work as a research software engineer (just a fancy word for computer programmer) in the field of Natural Language Processing. I'm a unix enthusiast committed to open-source software and an advocate for more security, simplicity, privacy and decentralisation. I love learning languages, coding, reading (mostly science fiction), working on my home automation system, playing the piano, and walking our dog.
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All posts (68)
Sesdiff This is a small and fast command line tool and Rust library that reads a two-column tab separated input from standard input and computes the shortest edit script (Myers' diff algorithm) to go from the string in column A to the string in column B. It also computed the edit distance (aka levenshtein distance).
Break Free! Don't be a prisoner of your software platform! "An opinion piece on software, social media, and ethics", by Maarten van Gompel (proycon) I don't use Windows or macOS, I don't use Facebook or Instagram, I won't use WhatsApp, my Android phone has no Google Play store or Google services. I minimize my use...
My PhD thesis Context as Linguistic Bridges has been released and is to be defended soon: Context as Linguistic Bridges is a study that focusses on the role of context information in machine translation, i.e. automated translation by computers. The underlying intuition is that the context in which a word or phrase...
Hanzigrid & Learning chinese characters based on visual similarity 大家好！ I've been trying to learn Mandarin Chinese for quite a while, following the vocabulary compiled for the HSK (汉语水平考试) tests. As every Chinese learner will surely know, memorising all the characters is a rather daunting task. I often find myself...
GPS tracker integreren in home automation Ik heb de GPS tracker die o.a. verkocht wordt als Reptrek Minitrek aangeschaft om onze hond te kunnen tracken. In plaats van de standaard beschreven SeTracker2 software (Chinese closed-source app voor Android en iOS) te gebruiken wilde ik als home-automation hobbyist deze...
Labirinto Labirinto is a virtual laboratory portal, it makes a collection of software browseable and searchable for the end-user. Labirinto presents the software's metadata following the CodeMeta specification in an intuitive way and allows the user to filter and perform a limited search. The portal gives access to...
CodeMetaPy The goal of CodeMetaPy is to generate the JSON-LD file, codemeta.json containing software metadata describing a Python package. For more general information about the CodeMeta Project for defining software metadata, see https://codemeta.github.io. In particular, new users might want to start with the User...
I recently switched to the gruvbox colours and polybar. Distribution: Arch Linux WM: bspwm Bar: polybar Launcher: rofi Multiplexer: tmux Editor: neovim + gruvbox theme Browser: Firefox Terminal: urxvt + gruvbox theme Music player: mpd + ncmpcpp Chat: weechat Mail: notmuch + alot Browser: firefox Spaceship: Stratios...
The Shape of Things to Come From Battlestar Galactica, Composed by Bear McCreary. My performance is a bit sloppy here and there but I didn't want to do it over again ;)
Light of the Seven Seven blessings to you! Here I play the epic piece by Ramin Djawadi for the season 6 finale of Game of Thrones. This is my version based on the score of Halcon with some personal interpretation and some errors.
Star Wars Composition This is my Star Wars Composition, consisting of my interpretation of various medleys that appear throughout the eight Star Wars movies.
Madredeus - O Pastor Há 8 anos gravei "O Pastor" de Madredeus no meu piano eletrônico, e fica um dos videos mais vistos do meu canal. Hoje em dia possuo um piano melhor e tento regravar a minha canção preferida de Madredeus com uma qualidade melhor. A interpretação é minha e pode ser distinto do original. O...
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