The Social Media Good, Bad, and Ugly| Rik's Weblog
While writing a book, I wanted to get some feedback from other people on it. To make the feedback process easy, I therefore ordered a few copies at a local printing house. This wasn't too expensive so seemed like a good deal. However, after having to wait a few days on the result, it all didn't seem like such a good deal after all. Having to wait multiple days is a waste of time, as is having to order a batch for a better price. That got me thinking whether it is possible to print a book at h...| Rik's Weblog
Does Whitney Webb fear for her life after exposing corruption?| Rik's Weblog
According to Chase Hughes, one of the best defenses against misinformation, psyops, propaganda, or whatever you want to call it is to be very good in spotting logical fallacies. He reports that you should first remember that "emotional response suppresses critical thinking". So teach yourself to stay calm when you see the news. Furthermore, train yourself to spot the following fallacies: 1. **Appeal to emotion.** Our brain is more inclined to believe information if it looks scary. So be caref...| Rik's Weblog
"Let's get real about free speech"| Rik's Weblog
If you follow Value Investing, you basically estimate a company’s fair value and then decide whether you decide to buy or not based on that. After this point, the crowd may be ignoring you, going with you, or going against you. The stock will jump up and down each day. And somehow you just have to sit there and take the psychological beatings. If the price goes up, you have to remind yourself that that doesn’t guarantee you were right. If the price goes down you have to look through your ...| Rik's Weblog
Contact: [email](mailto:huijzer.xyzcontact.stylishly377@passmail.net). ## Publications - Storopoli, Huijzer and Alonso (2021). Julia Data Science. \ ISBN: 9798489859165 (html, pdf) - Huijzer, Blaauw, and den Hartigh (2023). SIRUS.jl: Interpretable Machine Learning via Rule Extraction. Journal of Open Source Software, 8(90), 5786, (html, pdf) - Huijzer, de Jonge, Blaauw, Baatenburg de Jong, de Wit, den Hartigh (2023). Predicting Special Forces Dropout via Explainable Machine Learning (html, pd...| Rik's Weblog
Quoting Alasdair S. Roberts: > Louis Brandeis is credited with writing that “Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.” But why did Brandeis say that sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants? Because he was referring to a statement by James Bryce in his 1888 book, _The American Commonwealth_. The quote: > Public opinion is a sort of atmosphere, fresh, ...| Rik's Weblog
ustice This is my hand-written (zero AI) summary of the book _On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice_ (2024) by Adam Kirsch. I've tried to extract the main ideas as well as possible, but would still encourage readers to buy the book for more details and a better written text. ## On Settler Colonialism After the October 7th attack, many people were first introduced to the concept of settler colonialism. However, it has been an well-known concept among academics for two decades...| Rik's Weblog