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Suddenly, a flash of light… One of my favorite things on the Internet is a subreddit called Accidental Renaissance . There, one can find all sorts of photo imagery depicting scenes you would find on a Renaissance or Baroque painting. The aesthetics are quite astonishing including matching colors and composition. Which got me thinking: What if I could recreate these images in the style of a…
Where the bloody hell is Bielefeld?! With Brexit looming over the fate of the EU, I thought: let’s get topical. Nah, not really. But the analysis, I lay before you today, is somewhat related to the UK. Inspired by a funny picture on the Internet with literal German translations of all tube stops in London , I wondered if the same is possible for cities in the UK and Germany. However, I wanted to…
Being spoilt for choice Imagine standing here, at the counter of a refreshment kiosk, looking up at the blackboard with the menu and blowing air through your lips making a sound of desperation. The list of ‘hip’ drinks does not sound like anything to you. The names of the drinks look like hipsters had their cats run over typewriters (Not keyboards! That would be too mainstream). And you just…
Programming Languages are [Syntax Error] Have you ever wondered if there are programming languages which are preferable for left- or right-handers? Or what the general distribution of keystrokes is while you are programming? No? Well, tough luck because this is what we are going to have a look at today. It is clear that code just like any other electronic document is a string of letters typed on a…
… when you are alone in your Slack? Ever wondered what your colleagues are up to when they are not posting cat videos in #random in your workplace’s Slack? Are they on holidays? Or does their new relationship or project consume most of their time? Find out if and why! Here, in Lucas’ fun-packed world of Slack analysis! I will demonstrate two rather easy methods for finding behavioral structures in…
Play it again, Sam! After the ‘tremendous’ feedback, I have got for my previous blog posts about the public transport in Dresden, I have decided to jump on the next Niederflurwagen ( one heck of a word for Scrabble ) and look at some more interesting bits and pieces. This time, connectivity and changeovers shall be the center of our analysis. This needs a closer looks at bus and tram routes. These…
Gimme, gimme, gimme a bus after midnight It is 1:00am. I am waiting at the bus stop for, you guessed it, the bus. The public transport in Dresden is so good ( some would say excellent ) that you can catch a bus even after midnight without any problems. Standing there, staring in the black night sky, I get the feeling that some areas with less population have fewer stops than others which sometimes…
Lights on, lights off For the last two years, our office has been utilising a light sensor for tracking opening hours. The sensor just checks the current luminosity in the office and says whether it is open or not. An example excerpt for one day looks like this: Several things are visible. Apparently, nobody is in the office at night and there is a suspicious gap around 12, aka lunch time. On the…
LEGO! Who didn’t play with LEGO in his/her childhood? The Danish toy company just overtook Mattel as the number one toy maker in the world. I recently came across some classical paintings remodeled with LEGO bricks on the internet [ citation needed ]. And with bricks I mean small 1x1 plates giving a pixelated view onto the old masterpieces. Which got me thinking about two things: Is it possible to…
Grown men screaming like little girls I always hated playing scary video games, which made me avoid them completely over the last years. Especially the jump scares are nothing to be made fun of. Until now! Beginning with the area of watching Let’s Plays , I (and many others) can finally enjoy watching horror games without the hassle of actually playing the game. The concept is easy: Players record…