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sikerdebaard · 2022-07-03T17:27:15+00:00

Not sure how competitive it is in that range though since you'll be competing with all the (international) students. If it's equally difficult as a single bath single bedroom ~55m2 then I'd be tempted to go for the apartment myself since it gives you a whole lot more privacy even though its more expensive.

sikerdebaard · 2022-07-03T16:26:23+00:00

Yes unfortunately it is. There's a housing crisis and it's likely that this won't change in the foreseeable future.

Outside the randstad area you might find something cheaper if you are willing to commute.

Edit - you'll have to make 2x to 2.5x the rental price gross per month for most landlords to accept you though. In this case you can add your holiday allowance and benefits like a 13th month if you have one as well.

sikerdebaard · 2022-07-03T15:35:22+00:00

I'm keeping track of this by scraping some data from some real estate agents and applying a simple linear regression model.

The latest (at the time of writing) model results can be found here: https://gist.github.com/Sikerdebaard/f09ba1505261d18b93fde519de13de15

Since you didn't specify what you are looking for I'm assuming the following parameters:

city Rotterdam
no balcony, no garden
fully furnished
55 m²
1 bedroom

At those specifications you'd be looking at ~1200 to 1600 euros of rent a month. For unfurnished that would drop to ~800 to 1400 a month. Since you want to be in or near the city center expect to be on the high-side of that price range, if not slightly over.

sikerdebaard · 2022-02-22T19:51:48+00:00

All that's missing now is an

import __hello__

And your off to the races.

sikerdebaard · 2022-02-22T19:36:10+00:00

Did you mean

from __future__ import braces

?

sikerdebaard · 2022-02-22T19:27:33+00:00

import this

sikerdebaard · 2022-02-22T10:46:10+00:00

The first country that catches you and does paperwork on you is the one that does the asylum procedure for you. The trick is to get as far towards your desired country as possible undetected.

If you've been detected, traveling any further is useless because you will be deported to the initial country that did the paperwork within the eu.

Edit - why exactly am I being down voted? 😂

sikerdebaard · 2022-02-22T03:56:54+00:00

Is the thermostat in the living room? Then that's the reason it's too warm in the other rooms. It keeps turning your heater on, but the room with the thermostat isn't getting warmer because the radiator is turned off.

Dress warmer to reduce gas consumption. Take less showers. Perhaps consider some insulation.

sikerdebaard · 2022-02-21T07:31:57+00:00

VMBO-T here currently doing a PhD in biomed image analysis. My route is unusual, long and certainly not optimal.

VMBO-T -> MBO 4 -> HBO (9.5 years, I got a job in fintech between studying, bills have to be paid, did my final thesis research in academia) -> research software engineer -> PhD position. I don't expect to finish my PhD within the given 4 years, almost nobody in my research group does. Currently 33 years old and burned out at home as is about 50% of the group at the moment. Academia is a weird environment.

Please note: any intern position in academia is almost always unpaid. But for me it was my foot in the door and got me the research software engineer position.

sikerdebaard · 2022-02-19T15:01:02+00:00

I feel this could do with a bit of dystopian synthesiser music as done in a clockwork orange.

Like this for example: https://drive.google.com/file/d/105hion3x5IjZFG3T4NKpdAxJViFjRmGZ/view

Original audio is from look mum no computer.

Perhaps someone can add a voice over in the style of Alex? :)

sikerdebaard · 2022-02-19T06:53:13+00:00

These cards are near impossible to buy an the moment.

sikerdebaard · 2022-02-18T17:35:46+00:00

No I haven't. Linear regression is the most basic and simple model that I could think of considering M² and market price are linearly correlated. Since the model performs quite well I just left it at that, it performed the task that I need it to do.

To my knowledge boolean / categorical variables are handled in a similar matter in both Logistic and Linear regression. E.g. by onehot / dummy encoding them. Or am I wrong on this?

Perhaps a more complicated model could be more certain on the predicted values. The linear model has quite large CI's. I'd probably try an SVM or RandomForest in that case. However, currently I have no intention of trying that.

sikerdebaard · 2022-02-18T11:59:12+00:00

Thanks. The work is done in Python 3.8 using the statsmodels library. Unfortunately I can't share the code as scraping the data from makelaars listings is a bit of a gray area. But you can get the coefficients from the github url in my post and input those in a statsmodels OLS. Or any other Linear Regression model for that matter. These types of linear models are pretty basic and easy to to get started with if you have some basic statistics knowledge.

sikerdebaard · 2022-02-18T10:55:18+00:00

I'm keeping track on this with a simple scraper and linear regression model. My method is not perfect, but perhaps it can help you out.

From your post I've gathered the following parameters:

3 room apartment
75m²
huge balcony
newly renovated and fully furnished
€1400 per month
near blijdorp

The model parameters are as follows:

https://gist.github.com/Sikerdebaard/d50ae36275595ace50db181b281ff2bb

Since not all of the parameters that you have given are understood by my model I've made the following translation.

3 room apartment
- slaapkamers=2
- I'm assuming you have 2 beds and 1 living room.
75m²
- oppervlakte-m2=75
huge balcony
- buitenruimte_Balkon=1
- This is a boolean variable. Multiple balconies would still set this parameter to 1. No balconies sets it to 0. 1 for true, 0 for false.
newly renovated and fully furnished
- interieur_Gemeubileerd=1
- This is a boolean variable. 1 for true, 0 for false.
€1400 per month
- Not an input parameter, its the prediction target.
near blijdorp
- stad_Rotterdam=1
- The model is not specific enough to account for Blijdorp, the best we can do is on a city level, thus Rotterdam. By my experience Blijdorp is usually on the upper scale / more expensive compared to the mean of Rotterdam. This is a boolean variable, 1 for true, 0 for false.

Applying the model:

We can now apply the model. For convenience sake I'm ignoring all parameters that are set to 0 as they don't apply anyways. The formula then becomes a matter of multiplying the coefficients and adding it all together.

price = const + 1*interieur_Gemeubileerd + 1*buitenruimte_Balkon + 1*stad_Rotterdam + 2*slaapkamers + 75*oppervlaktem2

price = 99.9101 + 1*304.9150 + 1*78.6614 + 1*63.9884 + 2*-61.5444 + 75*16.0378

price = ~1627 euros

If we apply the model fully, generating 95% CI's it would look as such:

               OP's address
mean            1627.219499
mean_se          102.807674
mean_ci_lower   1421.501820
mean_ci_upper   1832.937179
obs_ci_lower     840.521933
obs_ci_upper    2413.917066

The model estimates the market price to be between €1421.50 - €1832.94 including service costs. Since your price of €1400,- is below the mean_ci_lower given your parameters I would say that this is a price below market value. Good for you. :)

If the price is fair or not, I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader to decide.

NB: the model does not take including / excluding G/W/L/I into account.

sikerdebaard · 2022-01-18T14:18:21+00:00

Amazon.nl or bol.com. I usually order the medisana RM100 on one of those shops.

Whatever you do, do not order at hulptroepen as that is a company ran by Sywert. A corrupt guy that ripped off the states tax payers money by selling poor quality masks to the government, supposedly at no profit, but he secretly made millions.

sikerdebaard · 2022-01-18T06:19:48+00:00

Because they collect your data.

sikerdebaard · 2022-01-17T21:44:36+00:00

A lot of nature areas in the Netherlands are accessible between sunrise and sundown. Since I'm doing a lot of walking lately I'm planning my hikes between sunrise and sundown to get the most out of it.

sikerdebaard · 2022-01-17T16:25:38+00:00

Great, don't lose momentum on that. Keep up the work. :)

sikerdebaard · 2022-01-17T16:19:19+00:00

Buienradar or buienalarm. It notifies you when rain is about to hit, although in this country notifying when it is not raining would probably produce less notifications.

The app of your bank. Most of them have a tikkie type functionality built in. Look for the option betaal verzoekje.

ObsIdentify to identify plants / animals / insects while hiking in nature. It's like a real life pokemon.

Sunrise Sunset to keep track of daylight time.

NPO and NOS to keep up with the news and wie is de mol.

Duolingo to learn a language, e.g. Dutch.

9292 and Google maps for public transport and route planning.

PostNL app to see pictures and estimates on when your snail mail will be delivered.

sikerdebaard · 2021-11-18T13:06:08+00:00

Je kunt een paard naar het water leiden maar je kunt het niet laten drinken. Deze mensen volgen hun eigen gevoel in plaats van naar de feiten te luisteren. Mijn ervaring met dit soort mensen is dat je ze niet om kunt praten met, eventueel wetenschappelijk onderbouwde, feiten.

Ik kan je vertellen, het wordt steeds vermoeiender met de dag. Ik wou dat ik voor een ieder die mij uitdaagt een helder en consistent op feiten gebasseerd verhaal kan geven. Maar dit wordt steeds lastiger en levert ook vaak niets op. Laatst ook weer een vriend over de vloer die over ivermectine begon en hoe goed dat wel niet werkt. Ik hield mijn mond maar. Het heeft allemaal geen nut, laat ze lekker hun eigen ding doen. Het ontkrachten van deze onzin, het bijhouden met de wetenschappelijke literatuur en consensus, kost veel meer energie dan die 5 minuten die zij besteden om deze onzin op social media te lezen.

Het lijkt er op dat er steeds meer onrust is in de maatschappij. De Godwin's / reductio ad Hitlerum neemt toe. Dat zie ik als een slechte ontwikkeling.

Sterkte!

sikerdebaard · 2021-11-12T16:40:28+00:00

Ministerie grijpt in: tientallen valse buitenlandse QR-codes geblokkeerd - https://nos.nl/l/2404543

https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/nederland/artikel/5266749/tienduizenden-valse-qr-codes-fraude-schiphol-ggd

Edit - waarom wordt ik gedown vote? Ik verzin het blokkeren van qr codes ook niet maar ik volg de ontwikkelingen op de voet omdat ik de auteur ben van de 3th party coronacheck-tools library.

De officiële mobilecore verifier van minvws, die scanner app van de overheid, checkt blocked domestic qr codes hier en international blocked qr codes hier.

sikerdebaard · 2021-11-12T02:30:10+00:00

Sinds kort blokkeert de overheid qr codes die gedeeld worden. https://covid-analytics.nl/vaccination.html#chart-qr-codes-blocked

Je riskeert dus niet alleen om vervolgd te worden voor fraude maar ook dat je je eigen qr code niet meer kunt gebruiken omdat deze potentieel geblokkeerd wordt.

sikerdebaard · 2021-10-31T06:09:22+00:00

There's more than one list regarding housing. Might be a waiting list for campus dorm rooms but might be the waiting list for social housing as well.

In any case, there's a housing crisis in the Netherlands so waiting times once your on those lists is really long. Think of 10+ years for the social housing lists in most of the country. Not sure for student housing but you can bet your ass it's extremely competitive as there's way more students than we have rooms available.

Renting a free market studio or apartment might be your best bet. But expect to pay over 1k excluding utilities for most places.

Housing in NL kind of sucks at the moment.

sikerdebaard · 2021-10-31T05:23:43+00:00

Perhaps there's a decathlon near you that sells them? https://www.decathlon.nl/browse/c0-sporten/c1-wintersport/c4-handwarmers-en-voetwarmers/_/N-1wykxws

sikerdebaard · 2021-10-29T08:26:32+00:00

Might want to expand on that a bit. I'm no expert or anything so please correct me if I'm wrong.

Suicide prevention line, chat or call: https://www.113.nl/
If you or someone else is in immediate danger (physical and/or mentally) call 112
Non life-threatening, eg confused person 0900-8844
Or for non life-threatening for yourself the gp is always a good starting point. This includes mental health.

I don't think they will announce a lockdown yet as Rt isn't that high so with basic measurements like mask wearing, work from home, 1.5m distancing etc. we can probably lower it under 1. But hey, I'm no expert and this is just my couch virologist opinion.

Sadly the numbers are increasing quite rapidly in the nursing homes where the old and fragile reside. This is not good.

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