Web Shepherd: An Interactive Shepherding App

An interactive web app demonstrating shepherding behaviour. Interactive Demo Code and Documentation Slimmer Version for Website Integration References Implemented using the technique described in: Van Havermaet, S., Simoens, P., Landgraf, T., & Khaluf, Y. (2023). Steering herds away from dangers in dynamic environments. Royal Society Open Science, 10(5), 230015. Interface inspired by the work of Nick Frosst.

14 Apr 2026 · 1 min · tjards

Restoring a Science Project from 1996

click for time travel Background The Great Canadian Hairy Star Party was an educational initiative produced by ScienceWeb in 1996. It featured observations, sketches, and other artwork from students across Canada related to Comet Hyakutake, a spectacular comet that passed close to Earth in March of that year. Centre Consolidated Elementary School in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia participated by having students submit their personal observations on a dedicated website. I was one of those students. ...

29 Mar 2026 · 3 min · tjards

Adver-City ML Workflow

This project implements a Machine Learning (ML) pipeline for the Adver-City synthetic dataset. The dataset is designed for investigating cooperative perception in autonomous vehicles. Overall, this project enables efficient, reproducible modelling of the Adver-City dataset through ML workflows. We have chosen to train a model to identify weather conditions (clear, fog, rain) from nighttime images. Note: full GitRepo available here. Figure 1: Example Scenario (foggy) from the Adver-City dataset. The dataset contains images of a variety of weather conditions (clear, fog, rain) and times of day (day, night). In this project we focus on classifying weather conditions from nighttime images. Operation The project is organized into four main stages. Depending on what your goal is (data exploration, ingestion, or training), the notebooks indicated below describe how to run each stage of the workflow. ...

23 Mar 2026 · 4 min · tjards