About complexity and stuff
Chaos is not the opposite of order. At first sight, an ecological chaos garden may look disorganized. Plants grow close together, flowers appear between vegetables, herbs spread where they are useful, and self-seeded plants are often welcomed instead of removed. To many people, it looks like nature has simply taken over. In reality, the opposite […]
A while ago, I met a lovely french lady. Her name was Amélie. She told me this humourous poem about “aunt Amélie”, in french. Here it is: Ma tante Amélie m’avait bien promis Trois poils de son cul pour faire un tapis L’hiver venu, le tapis est foutu Ma tante Amélie n’a plus d’poils sur son cul […]
There is a very simple way to tell the difference between segmentation and clustering. As in most data analysis, a picture tells more than a 1,000 words. So I asked google pictures. For clustering, google gives us the following search result (first page of results) For segmentation, google comes up with a totally different catch: […]
For the long term: invest in stocks! It is a historical fact that in the long run an investment in stocks will give you the highest yield. From 1950 til 2009 stocks delivered an average return of 7.5%. The average for the last 100 years is 9.4%. Which means that if you have money that you […]
We all heard about the islam terror attacks in Paris. We know what 9/11 means. Islamic State/ ISIS / Daesh is every day allover the news. Still, in our western world islamists, and certainly islam extremists, are but a minority. If we look at Europe, only 7% is muslim, and a majority of them live […]
Who Robbed who? “Poor Greeks”, “Heartless troika”, are some of the cries we hear these days (e.g.saltspringnews). Who is to blame for the imminent collapse of Greece? The greeks, who failed during decades to put their economy on track? Europe, who says they gave them already way to much and refuses to throw more money in […]
In using dataminig models for marketing campaigns, a definition of lift could be: “lift is a measure of the performance of a targeting model (association rule) at predicting or classifying cases as having an enhanced response (with respect to the population as a whole), measured against a random choice targeting model.” (wikipedia) Yeah, wright! Now […]
Will I die from ebola? Who knows? Will ebola be stopped/eliminated? Who knows? Anyway: I do not want to die from ebola at all! I would very much like that doctors and other health workers arrive at totally wiping out that terrible disease. That is why I actually helped them. Not by going there on […]
When I type this, the Germany national soccer team has eliminated the French, and Brazil is going to play against Columbia in the quarterfinals of the world cup Soccer in Brazil. It is really weird that the matchresults of the most popular sport in the world are extremely influenced by unfair, illogical rules and […]
This really happened. Do to privacy policy I only give you the final section of the problem history: About the problem “The problem seems to be solved but we (at least I) don’t really know how. The problem doesn’t come from any long comments in the code I sent you (we use this macro on […]