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- Hallucinations with Large Language Models with my football app May 26, 2024
- Online economy is based on Open Source January 5, 2019
- Give peace a chance – Money for weapons July 15, 2018
- How I replaced Google with Open Source December 26, 2017
- Machines took over Custom Controls in Great Britain October 17, 2017
- Communication is fundamentally changing February 16, 2017
- Disney, back off from my paper towel! January 2, 2017
- This is the perfect key to tyranny December 15, 2016
- Populism rules July 8, 2016
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Hallucinations with Large Language Models with my football app
Recently I have asked our favorite large language model chatGPT4o to help me with my football betting game. With friends and family we are usually betting during the football (soccer) World or Euro Cup. I wrote a little R/shiny app … Continue reading
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Online economy is based on Open Source
Open source software has many advantages: Its function, functionality and correctness can be reviewed. It is instructive and adaptable and can be assembled into a full featured operating system with many software application (giving the impression to be) under the … Continue reading
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Give peace a chance – Money for weapons
At the latest NATO Summit, the president of the USA, Donald Trump pushed the other NATO allies to increase their military spending. The 29 North Atlantic Treaty Organization members have agreed in 2014 to reach or maintain defense budget by … Continue reading
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How I replaced Google with Open Source
The rise of the Internet in the last 20 years was tightly connected with the success story of Google LCC . It is one of the most valuable and powerful companies with an enormous knowledge about all of us. Even … Continue reading
Machines took over Custom Controls in Great Britain
A few month ago, I flew to London Stansted and queued up for the custom control. There was a large group of people ahead of me and took about 20 min to reach to the customs officer, who was, to … Continue reading
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Communication is fundamentally changing
The coolest company worldwide is clearly Cambridge Analytica. Within a few month they became the most powerful voter analysis organization, which could substantially influence big polls like last year’s Brexit and US presidential elections. Everybody who believed that free speech … Continue reading
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Disney, back off from my paper towel!
If you have small kids you are probably aware of my challenge: The million-Euro-marketing-budget cartoon characters are discovering the kid’s minds. Suddenly their bed is full of (plush toys of) handicapped fish or ice-cold princesses like Nemo and Elsa, respectively. … Continue reading
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This is the perfect key to tyranny
When Edward Snowden used the term “turnkey tyranny” (at the end of the linked video) in 2013, I did not see the governmental surveillance systems as the key feature to replace democracy with despotism. Without underestimating Edward’s big achievements and … Continue reading
Populism rules
The Austrian presidential election is going to a lap of (dis-)honor. The highest court decided to repeat the run-off ballot, which was narrowly won by the green party’s candidate Alexander Van der Bellen, a former economy professor. The loser in … Continue reading
Conspiracy competitors
Recently I saw the first episode of the latest season of X-Files. They blamed their government to be ill-disposed against their own people. As examples they mentioned the Tuskegee syphilis experiment and Henrietta Lacks (Here is a link to the transcript). … Continue reading