Thomas van Dijk

Anybody on here going to be at Schematic Mapping Workshop in Paris this year? How about drinks on Wednesday evening? (Posting in case anybody is even here anymore; find me as tvdmaps on sky app.)

This is the dream… thousands of dollars of equipment, tooting on a bizarre doohickey, making music that sounds like frogs listen to it…

Word of the day: Poissonize. ("In some of the proofs it is useful to Poissonize.")

Hear me talk about it: youtu.be/dGQ9U_nBXe4

The PhD TA position is for 5 years with 25% of your time spent on education. Full vacancy text and application link here: edu.nl/btffq

Come work with me? I have a fully funded PhD vacancy "Algorithm Engineering" at TU Eindhoven.

(* Java does have primitive types, of course. But calling something a "reference type" doesn't make it not a pointer.)

Pet peeve: people saying Java doesn't have pointers. Java ONLY has pointers!* Stop making people be scared of pointers.

What did they do to Tim?! 😱

People tend to get the Turing Test slightly wrong – I think. tvd.win.tue.nl/posts/turing-t…

Kein Grund sich an das Fahr- und Parkverbot zu halten, wenn man trocken zum Bäcker kommen möchte. In @bochum_de sehen die Verkehrsüberwachung und die Polizei großzügig weg oder nutzen im Falle der Polizei (@polizei_nrw_bo) vermeintliche Sonderrechte beim Einkauf.

📍With just a few lines of code, you can now overlay historic maps on a @LeafletJS map with the new Allmaps plugin. See @allmaps/leaflet-plugin" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">observablehq.com/@allmaps/leafl… to try it out‼️

The program of the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities (#GeoHumanities23) is now online: ludovicmoncla.github.io/sigspatial-geo… See you in Hamburg @SIGSPATIAL_GIS on November 13 w/ @khetiwe24 @bgmartins @hu_xuke

Time for another RAM Colloquium! Thomas van Dijk (@tvdmaps) will discuss how to improve geovisualisation through mathematical optimisation. The full abstract is in the image below. Fr, 8 December, 10am CET Hybrid (GBIII/214 and on Zoom) Registration: forms.gle/DyVAethew9g349…

Want to know more about searching Text on Maps at davidrumsey.com? Come see the mapKurator demo at #sigspatial2023 in Hamburg! @jina_kimmm

🚂 All aboard! Station to Station is leaving the station Play the game now on Steam!

Visualizing Geophylogenies – Internal and External Labeling with Phylogenetic Tree Constraints; with Jonathan Klawitter, Joris Y. Scholl, Felix Klesen, Alexander Zaft youtube.com/watch?v=XJ7hpU…

Here are the main results. • Formalise the problem • Efficient algorithm for internal labeling • Crossing minimisation is NP-hard, but can be solved efficiently with an ILP or heuristics.

I had a great time at #GIScience in Leeds last week! Check out my talk about visualising geophylogenies (video link below) or get the open access full text here: drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/frontdoor…