Simon Vandevelde

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I never know what I'm talking about.

Postdoc researcher @ KU Leuven, Belgium, working on Knowledge Representation & Reasoning.

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Simon Vandevelde1d ago
Element1d ago

💚 Belgium has launched Beam, its nationwide Matrix-based communications platform!

🪧 Digitally sovereign communications need to be adopted sustainably to ensure the success of digital commons.

https://element.io/blog/governments-need-to-adopt-matrix-responsibly/

Governments need to adopt Matrix responsibly

It’s great to see another European government, this time Belgium, using the Matrix open standard as the foundation for digitally sovereign communications. Matrix enables digital sovereignty through decentralisation, self-hosting and interoperability. As a result, it gives governments full control over their data and operations.  By choosing Matrix, Belgium ensures

Element Blog
Show threadSimon VandeveldeMar 15
@thebandb Door naar de Wason task te zoeken kwam ik deze leuke les (+uitleg) tegen:
https://copernicanrevolution.org/cognitive-psychology/confirmation-bias
Confirmation Bias and Wason's 2-4-6 Task: Why Being a Scientist is So Hard

In-person game played with students, the mimicking scientific discovery with Wason's 2-4-6 Task

Show threadSimon VandeveldeMar 8
@djoerd jesus. Thanks for the headsup.
Show threadSimon VandeveldeFeb 24
It still does it, at least some of the time. :-)
Simon VandeveldeFeb 19
How to teach the differences between linear and binary search without computers? Just use the students! B)
Simon VandeveldeFeb 19
Honestly, at this point I prefer typos and ugly sentences in my student emails over the LLM slop I'm getting now. This is killing me.
Show threadSimon VandeveldeFeb 19
@anna Sounds like a very fun course to teach! A colleague recently introduced me to ultimate tic-tac-toe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_tic-tac-toe), and I've been wanting to write a simple minimax algorithm ever since. 🙃
Ultimate tic-tac-toe - Wikipedia

Show threadSimon VandeveldeFeb 19
@anna I'm curious to know how you use the board games in your lectures. To do general game playing, or to show example constraint models, or something else?
Show threadSimon VandeveldeFeb 18
@anna @bnys Hanabi is great, but few people seem to know it. I have a demo using the Catan board game, and every year I vastly overestimate how many of my students know Catan. Really, how can you have never heard of such an iconic board game??
Show threadSimon VandeveldeFeb 15
@thebandb in dat geval mijn welgemeende excuses!