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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
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- This is the perfect key to tyranny December 15, 2016
- Populism rules July 8, 2016
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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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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
Popular outrage
Why we should not tolerate US remote executions by drones. The drone papers were already published three month ago. They describe how American drones kill more than a thousand people in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The victims and their friends … 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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