I can only guess that most of you never considered building a Garfield comic search engine. For me, though, that is not the case. This project has been swirling around in my brain for years already. As a kid, I was a big fan of the Garfield comic strips: I
Imagine scrolling through your social media feed and noticing a flood of identical, opinionated posts. Sounds familiar? The culprit, or culprits, are the ever more popular Large Language Model (LLM) algorithms, producing those kinds of posts in just seconds. Such an explosive growth of AI-generated text on the internet has
The 2016 US presidential election marked a turning point in how political campaigns interact with voters. Donald Trump’s victory wasn’t just about traditional political strategies — it also depended on the innovative and controversial use of digital advertising. Behind the scenes, a little-known company called Cambridge Analytica played an
This semester, I am taking a Neuroscience minor course in Groningen. Although at first glance, the topic may seem quite distant from the usual activities we engage in at W.I.S.V. ‘Christiaan Huygens’, the reality is that the fields of Computer Science and Neurobiology are becoming increasingly intertwined.