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The old normal A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, most of us were working in the office 5 days per week.
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Reinforcement Learning
Introduction to Reinforcement Learning (RL)
Reinforcement Learning has become interesting to many because you don’t need a huge data set to get started; the procedures inherently create this data.
January 14, 2020
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Devoxx
Devoxx 2019
Devoxx Belgium is a 5-days conference where developers and architects come together and explore the latest technology advancements and fascinating ideas, with some of the
November 7, 2019
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Charitable Signing Fee
ToThePoint sponsors WWF
Charitable signing fee Every new hire at ToThePoint receives a Charitable Signing Fee of €500 to spend on a charity of their choosing. By shaping
November 4, 2019
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Workshop
Reinforcement Learning Workshop
ToThePoint is co-hosting a reinforcement learning workshop with the folks from The Campus, the 17th of december. This is your chance to grasp an understanding
October 30, 2019
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Corporate social responsibility
YOUCA Action Day at ToThePoint
YOUCA: Youth for Change and Action Today 17/10/2019, more than 15000 youngsters grasped the opportunity to skip a day of classes in favour of working
October 17, 2019
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Corporate social responsibility
Levensloop Edegem sponsorship
Charitable Signing Fee Our new colleagues at ToThePoint were offered a grant of €500 to support a good cause of their choosing through our “charitable
October 16, 2019
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Angular
7 reasons to choose Vue.js over Angular
Why Vue is better than Angular Vue’s popularity in Google Trends Vue’s keyword analytics in Google Trends makes it clear that Vue is crushing both
October 3, 2019
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Gingerwald
Juice Corner 2.0 – Keeping the juice flowing
ToThePoint built a more optimised IoT Juice Corner for our juicy friends from Gingerwald!
September 17, 2019
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Bootcamp
ToThePoint bootcampers go teambuilding.
How the day went? After a long day of learning all-things-evolutionary, we took the bootcamp members out for a treat!With their bellies filled up with
September 16, 2019
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Bootcamp
Meet the new Pointers!
This week marked the start of the careers of over 10 (!) Evolutionary Architects.
September 9, 2019
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Les Ondes
ToThePoint IT Consultancy Team building 2019
This year’s ToThePoint team building event brought out the best of us!
September 2, 2019
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HashiConfEU
Showcasing Infrastructure as Code
Johan Siebens was invited by HashiCorp to share his insights about Immutable Infrastructure at HashiConfEU. Johan used the WALL OF FAME as an illustration of
July 19, 2019
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VOKA
VOKA welcomes Machine Learning Master Kevin Smeyers
Turning crude data into knowledge can become dangerously valuable.
June 28, 2019
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Innovation
Inspiring innovation in Iceland
Meetings galore and innovation-driven Icelandic entrepreneurship! Nick V. went on an innovation inspiring trip!
June 13, 2019
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Code Review
Explaining code like a tutor
My personal journey of balancing Object Oriented Programming (OOP) with Functional Programming (FP) showed me how there are many useful overlapping skills for both professions when it comes to explaining code. The communicative skills needed for knowledge sharing and the foresights/awareness of the “initial situation” are two of the big ones.
May 29, 2019
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HashiCorp
Scheduled to talk at HashiConf EU!
Johan Siebens, our very own Cluster Buster himself has been scheduled to talk about our Wall of Fame at HashiConf EU 2019. About the Wall
May 24, 2019
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RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ mirrored queues troubleshooting sync issues
Troubleshooting RabbitMQ mirrored queues made easy.
May 24, 2019
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Gamification
Building a Kubernetes Examination Platform
What is Kubernetes? How do you start with Docker and Containerisation? Our Intern had to find this all out in short notice so you don’t have to.
May 20, 2019
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Office Smart Agent
Smart Waste Management built and tested in VR
Building a smart solution to trash management issues was a challenge our interns proudly delivered a working prototype for.
May 13, 2019
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Facial Recognition
Image Recognition can be dangerous
Facial Image Recognition software is real and here to stay.
May 9, 2019
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Office Smart Agent
Training an artificial brain in VR
The Office Smart Agent’s brain is currently training 24/7 on our VR capable custom built PC. This means that the GPU of Lino’s PC can stop melting (for a while).
April 26, 2019
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Grab A Coffee Tour
April 23, 2019
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Deep Image Recognition
Deep Image Recognition Internship
ToThePoint is making strides in the Machine Learning department, and now we’re stepping up our game by adding Deep Image Recognition to it.
April 22, 2019
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Self Driving Vehicle
The beacons are lit, ToThePoint calls for aid!
Using Bluetooth beacons to determine the location of a self driving vehicle. Impressive stuff.
April 21, 2019
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Kubernetes
Building a Kubernetes Learning platform
Brend, OnTheSpot intern delivering a demo of the Evolutionary Architecture he has drawn for his SpotOps internship.
April 19, 2019
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Machine Learning
Visualising data from a neural network
What is Michael the Machine Learning Prodigy cooking for us now? It smells delicious.
April 18, 2019
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Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality causes Thinking in Portals
Virtual Reality Masters You may call them interns, but we call them Virtual Reality Masters at ToThePoint. Robin and Lino are making strides in plying
April 18, 2019
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Kubernetes
Managing a Kubernetes cluster in VR.
In this blog post I will tell you a little story of how I became a proud member of the ToThePoint family, some might say it was coincidence or luck but that’s too easy of an explanation.
April 16, 2019
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Corporate social responsibility
ToThePoint’s EV car park – first impressions
Our marketing guy has already jumped ship to the Electric battleship and is here to give his first impressions of the Kona EV. Spoiler alert: he’s sold.
April 15, 2019
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Resources
Blogs Pointers are Reading
We asked some of our Pointers to list a few of their favourite blogs. We’d love to share them here with you. VUEJSFEED Vue.js —
April 8, 2019
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FlashPoint
Internship Updates
Five brilliant interns are working on very exciting projects at our ToThePoint offices and we’re watching closely on their progress.
April 5, 2019
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TurningPoint
TurningPoint – Autonomous obstacle avoiding vehicle
What’s more fun than building a self driving obstacle avoiding vehicle. Some of our seniors are eager to help out — yet they are not allowed 🙁
March 29, 2019
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SpotOps
Building a Kubernetes learning platform from scratch
Delivering way more than we expected from his first 3,5 weeks here, Brend is leaving a mighty good impression on our very own Kubernetes experts.
March 28, 2019
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Trashbeat
TrashBeat Internship Update
Bert is creating a prototype for a smart agent that we’re developing in another internship project. So far his progress is going strong and steady.
March 28, 2019
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Office Smart Agent
ToThePoint interns are building impressive things
Before we build a real life IoT prototype, we are testing the office smart agent in a VR environment that Robin is creating from scratch.
March 28, 2019
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FlashPoint
Flashpoint — sentiment analysis
Michael, machine learning prodigy at ToThePoint showcasing the progress of his Machine Learning internship at ToThePoint
March 28, 2019
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Evolutionary Architecture
The role of an evolutionary architect
Making sure that each component of your enterprise is able to evolve independently of each other is key in evolutionary architecture. But how exactly?
March 28, 2019
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Corporate social responsibility
ToThePoint’s environment friendly car park
Going green in style — made easy by ToThePoint.
March 25, 2019
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CI/CD
ToThePoint’s OS on a stick
Minimal effort to check if something is broken We had an unused tv at our disposal a few months back and were looking for ways
March 19, 2019
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Code Review
How to maintain code quality while having fun
What is code quality? There are a lot of definitions of code quality out there, but I will try to summarize what I understand when
March 10, 2019
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Wall of Fame
The Wall of Fame – The architecture
Even though the Wall Of Fame might look like a fancy oversized gadget to bring along on our events, there’s a lot going on in the background that we think you’ll find interesting.
We built a high performance, low latency ecosystem controlling the Wall Of Fame while allowing for adding features easily. But it took some time and effort to get to the point that we’re at right now.
March 3, 2019
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Liantis
Squad As A Service at Liantis
“With the help of three ToThePointers we got the project, which started off on the wrong foot, back on track in a few weeks. This
February 28, 2019
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Cloud Agnostic
February 13, 2019
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IoT
Travelling with a prototype
How to present an IoT prototype in a foreign conference? As you probably noticed already, I had the honour of making a presentation during the
February 6, 2019
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Pepper robot
A Pepper robot does not make you innovative
This is not yet another blogpost… this is a rant! What you’ll read below is extremely opinionated and no exact science, so feel free to
January 30, 2019
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Open Policy Agent
Open Policy Agent (OPA)
What can you do with Open Policy Agent (OPA)? Last year, me and a colleague, attended KubeCon/CloudNativeCon in Copenhagen. During those day on the conference
January 27, 2019
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SonarQube
SonarQube showcases our flawlessness
After over a year of coding “blind” with a team of Pointers (at peak times we were developing with 6 Pointers simultaneously) we decided to
January 23, 2019
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Virtual Reality
Creating a VR visualisation of a HTTP request
Wouter Bauweraerts, Evolutionary Architect at ToThePoint has made a virtual reality visualisation of a HTTP request. ” I’m currently studying applied informatics at KDG. An
January 22, 2019
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Wall of Fame
Intro The Wall of Fame
What is the Wall Of Fame? Simply put, it is a giant RGB wall made completely out of keyboards that can be used to stream
January 20, 2019
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