Rik's Weblog
How Dutch is the Dutch King?
The Social Media Good, Bad, and Ugly
Printing a Book at Home with Minimal Equipment
Does Whitney Webb fear for her life after exposing corruptio...
Some Defenses Against Misinformation
"Let's get real about free speech"
The Most Difficult Part of Investing
About
Sunlight is the Best Disinfectant
Summary of On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and J...
How Is a Cult Defined and How Can People Get Out?
The Effect of Language in Propaganda
Summary of The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
Baudet on the Free Market
Whether Settler Colonialism is Progressive
Communism in a Nutshell
Speech by Frans Timmermans on Europe's Diversity
A Toast to the Simple, Ordinary, Modest People
pathsofstoicism on "mental resets"
How Effective is Russian Subversion?
Yuri Bezmenov: Psychological Warfare Subversion & Control of...
Stephen Kotkin on Collectivization
Peterson on podcasting
How to Stop the West’s Decline
Jan Terlouw about "touwtjes uit de brievenbussen"
Why I wrote fx
Grading Historians
Misinformation
Stephen Kotkin's Hopeful Future for the West
Never again
Maybe podcasts, YouTubers, and individual producers are more...
Harsh Dwivendi on the Windsurf Sale
Heroes
The large Dutch pension fund ABP achieved an annual return o...
Publishing a Snap Package
Kyle Chan: "BYD Mexico plant: BYD’s plans for building a n...
Arvind Narayanan: “AI is helpful despite being error-prone...
Buffett on DOGE and the US deficit. He said the deficit is u...
Buffett: “You never reach an answer in this business. You...
Done with GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attacks
How fast is CeTZ-Plot?
Plotting a CSV file with Typst and CeTZ-Plot
File Upload in fx
I don't like the way you're running our country
TIL: EV fires can quickly be extinguished via a special lanc...
Blogs are still very much alive. [This post](<https://www.ca...
Set -euxo pipefail
[This speech](<https://youtu.be/g1pwS33fE48>) by Oliver Anth...
I think I’m going to skip the comment feature for fx (<htt...
"Why are big tech companies slow? Because they've packed in...
I wish Dijkstra was alive and on Twitter. Quotes like this a...
Hello world
Every programming language has its 'killer' domain
The 'They Did It' Fallacy
On Interface Design
The transformrs crate: Interface for AI API providers
AI learning rate and some thoughts
Live reloading for any generated website
Running code in blog posts is probably a bad idea
Battery Learning Curves
Summary of Same as Ever by Morgan Housel
Some SaaS banned me, again
The history of the ROC curve
Updating my notes via email
Installing Forgejo with a separate runner
How much have batteries changed over time?
Encrypting and decrypting a secret with wasm_bindgen
An old solution to modern OpenAI GPTs problems
Triggering `entr`
GPT versus Google
Why I still recommend Julia (for Data Science)
Optimizing Julia code
Static site authentication
Bayesian Latent Profile Analysis (mixture modeling)
Collinear Bayes
Nested cross-validation
Increasing model accuracy by using foreknowledge
Random forest classification in Julia
Random forest, Shapley values and multicollinearity
GitHub and GitLab commands cheatsheet
Design cheatsheet
Frequentist and Bayesian coin flipping
Installing NixOS with encryption on a Lenovo laptop
The logit and logistic functions
The principle of maximum entropy
Writing effectively
Writing checklist
Combinations and permutations
Comparing means and SDs
Predicates and reproducibility
Simple and binary regression
The greatest sales deck someone else has ever seen
Correlations
Benefits of writing blog posts
Statistical power from scratch
Niceties in the Julia programming language
NixOS configuration highlights
Entr
QoS setup using Tomato in combination with an Experiabox