Douwe Osinga's Blog

Saturday, January 20, 2024

Lies, statistics and the ultra rich

Every year during the gathering of the world leaders in Davos, Oxfam comes out with a report about how the rich are getting richer and the ...

Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Automate Research with a Neptyne Spreadsheet and OpenAI

  While ChatGPT definitely has grabbed the headlines when it comes to the AI revolution, using LLMs to automate all kinds of tasks has yield...

Thursday, November 10, 2022

Neptyne: Making Spreadsheets Programmable

So yeah, it's been kinda quiet around here - famous last words on any blog, but I thought I should at least post something about what I&...

Friday, April 1, 2022

The Clever Bit and the Gold Rush

In my  last post  I lamented the fact that it sometimes seems that fewer tech companies have a clever bit and that it seems it is more and m...

Saturday, March 19, 2022

What’s the clever bit?

I realized that the blog linked from my website is still pointing to the this old blogger thing while if I write something these days it is ...

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Movie Recommendations

Today's project is a small Python notebook to recommend movies. I know, I know, there's a million of those out there, but this one ...

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Amazon Dash and Philips Hue

When the Amazon Dash came out a few years ago, I thought it was an April Fool's joke . A button that you install somewhere in your hou...