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gjjvdburgon Rotterdam harbor storm barrier closes for the first time in its history

Apparently the automated control system consists of 200,000 lines of formally-verified C++: https://ansymore.uantwerpen.be/system/files/uploads/courses/...

gjjvdburgon How to fuck up software releases (2019)

I've been using a "do-nothing script" [1] to semi-automate the release process for some open source projects (e.g. [2]). Might be interesting for someone here.

[1]: https://blog.danslimmon.com/2019/07/15/do-nothing-scripting-...

[2]: https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/CleverCSV/blob/mast...

gjjvdburgon CleverCSV: A Drop-In Replacement for Python's CSV Module

Hi, I'm the author of CleverCSV. Although the package was initially written to mainly improve the accuracy of automated dialect detection, we ended up changing some aspects of the C parser as well (most notably increasing the look-ahead to two characters). This has made the parsing somewhat faster than the builtin csv package (around 10-20%).

gjjvdburgon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2017)

Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Machine Learning (scikit-learn, some TF, own algorithms), Python, C, R, Matlab

CV: https://gertjanvandenburg.com/files/cv.pdf

Email: see CV