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TEQnation 2021 – Hanno Embregts – These Songs Would Make Some Great Code Comments

Besides being useful, comments in source code can also be fun! Sometimes a well-chosen joke put into source code can lighten the mood at work and make your developer life just a bit better. Now, because I am both a developer and a musician, I tend to use song lyrics to lighten up my code. […]

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TEQnation 2021 – Sander Kerkdijk – Transforming your perception on text generation

Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) based sequence-to-sequence models have garnered a lot of traction ever since they were introduced in 2014. Most of the data in the current world are in the form of sequences – it can be a number sequence, text sequence, a video frame sequence or an audio sequence. The latest addition to […]

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TEQnation 2021 – Piet van Dongen – What is resilience engineering?

The coronavirus pandemic has taught us developers two things: 1) all online systems will fail eventually and 2) they will fail in unpredictable ways. But have no fear, resilience engineering is here! Building and maintaining event-driven, highly scalable and quickly adaptable systems are a pain in the neck. Resilience engineering embraces this complexity and helps […]

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July 3, 2021

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TEQnation – Joel Lord – NodeJS, ML, K8s and Unethical Face Recognition

How nice would it be to be able to remember everyone’s name? What if you could just walk into a room and know everyone’s Twitter handle? Kubernetes is a great tool that is being used more and more for deploying applications, but it can also be used in the context of machine learning. In this […]

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July 3, 2021

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TEQnation 2021 – Soham edited – GraphQL-ify your APIs

GraphQL is query language for APIs, but what are the advantages and how would one implement such in their microservices/APIs. In this session, I will go through the basics of GraphQL, different aspects of GraphQL and architecture of such APIs. There will be a demo/live-coding on, how 3 different ways we can implement GraphQL for […]

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July 3, 2021

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TEQnation 2021 – Erwin de Gier – HOWTO: Get rid of your fear of bugs!

Mobile apps can be used for productivity, entertainment and communication, but did you know they can also be used for science? In this talk we will explain how we developed a mobile app to aid research on anxiety treatment. Children with specific fobia, like fear of spiders or dogs, can mitigate these fears by practising. […]

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July 3, 2021

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TEQnation 2021 – Kory Becker – Self-Programming Artificial Intelligence

Is it possible for a computer program to write its own programs? While this kind of idea could seem far-fetched, it may actually be closer than we think. This presentation introduces “AI Programmer”, a machine learning system, which can automatically generate full software programs requiring only minimal human guidance. The system uses genetic algorithms coupled […]

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July 3, 2021

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TEQnation 2021 – Bram Zijlstra & Joanna Krajewska – You can judge a video by its cover

With the rise in popularity of video streaming services, many traditional TV operators want to offer a similar platform to their viewers. One of the key aspects of a good user experience for streaming platforms is having thumbnails that are visually interesting and informative about the content. During this session, we describe how we create […]

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July 3, 2021

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TEQnation 2021 – Bouke Nijhuis – The art of bug fixing

Every developer has to fix bugs, but hardly anyone talks about it. Creating greenfield applications is cool, but would it not be more beneficial for you to learn something you will do more often? I think every developer would benefit from sharpening this skill. In this talk I will show you what I have learned […]

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July 3, 2021

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TEQnation 2021 – Saskia Groenewegen – Extended Reality for Training and Productivity

In this talk we show how immersive training in VR, performance support with Mixed Reality, and new technologies like Azure Spatial Anchors can make learning and working easier, more efficient, and more fun.

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