To help students get a better feel for three of the most popular “multi-armed bandit” exploration/exploitation balancing strategies (Epsilon Greedy, Thompson Sampling, and Upper Confidence Bound), I combined my R package “contextual” with the versatile …
Above, a video visualizing two of our participants’ ECG responding to music in real-time. Yellow and green lines represent their ECG’s, red the level of synchrony between them. The audio is a live recording …
Jules Kruijswijk (first author), Maurits Kaptein and Florian Böing-Messing and I have recently been working on a paper on the application of partial pooling (or shrinkage) models in (contextual) multi-armed bandit problems: The (contextual) multi-armed …
Recently, I have completed a Javascript (ES6, React, and Material Design) admin application for “StreamingBandit”, a Python server that helps setting up and running online streaming (contextual) bandit experiments. This management front-end makes it very easy …
With a team consisting of Ettore Majorana, Andrea Giansanti, Davide Iannuzzi and Maurits Kaptein, we are currently investigating how people perceive beauty, complexity, and symmetry in paintings. To get a better feel for the subject, …
“Psychology and Aging” just accepted our* latest paper, which offers new insights into how aging appears to change our emotional resilience towards monetary gains and losses for the better. The abstract: People of all ages …
I am happy to announce that I have been accepted as a researcher at the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science! In a nutshell, this means that I am now allowed to travel to beautiful ‘s-Hertogenbosch …
. I was asked to put some basic code examples online to help developers get started with the Totem Bobbi Motion + ECG Monitor. For those not in the know: “The Bobbi” is a very …
A short screencast of my Kinect Dyadic Distance App in action at Johan Nieuwenhuize’s studio. The app makes use of the live data streams from a Microsoft Kinect motion sensing device to continuously calculate the …