Category Archives: Economy

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

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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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Knowledge is key

In the last couple of days I attended a clinical cancer conference. I learned a lot about the clinical practice for this terrible disease and also about careless data protection habits. As we learned from our tweeting hero, the connection … Continue reading

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No conflict of interest

The discussion about net-neutrality is currently in its hot phase. It looks like net-neutrality lost and it’s even unclear, if this decision has been make some time ago as a deal between the Internet Service Provider (ISP) and the Council … Continue reading

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Achievements of Civilisation

Living in peace in my country is a privilege, I can not appreciate enough. Civil wars in Syria, Iraq, Nigeria and several other places in the world, are horrible. Cruelty of the soldiers involved and the terrible consequences of their … Continue reading

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Simple minds

Recently I got a request from the business contacts platform linkedin, asking if I might share all my email addresses and passwords with them. They want automatically go through my mail account’s address books to find new contacts for me. … Continue reading

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Free press – required in 2013 ?

In the 17th and 18th century, the Age of enlightenment, intellectual interchange of topics of public interest, like social developments and science, became an important achievement. Throughout the centuries, people were fighting for its preservation and broadening to other fields. … Continue reading

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