Short Stories
The world is complex and full of mysteries. Here are some thoughts on it.
Filters
What Unanimity Hides
Structuring International Governance Through the Space of Concerns
When Does It Break? An Introduction to Hazard Analysis
The logit models whether something happens within a window. Hazard analysis opens that window and asks when the event occurs.
Are We in the Chinese Room?
AI may not only simulate understanding; it may also tempt us into workflows where we produce competent outputs without preserving understanding ourselves.
From Self-Limiting Growth to the Logit Function
Why concerns about population growth led to the logistic equation, and how the same curve later became central to probability models.
The Hydra Effect: Why Criminal Networks Grow Stronger Through Resistance
Rocks, minds, and Turing machines
What does it mean to compute?
Bergson's Philosophy: A Dive into Fluidity and Critique
Exploring Henri Bergson's philosophy, its core ideas, and a critical analysis of its stance on irreducibility and reductionism.
From Zero to 25K Downloads: What I Learned Developing a FOSS Project
Lessons learned from 6 months of FOSS development
Why is hysteresis important for policymakers?
Why do anti-smoking policies take 20 years to work? The answer lies in a phenomenon discovered by studying twisted steel cables in 1881.
What is Truth?
In the Realm of Misinformation, Truth is a Slippery Concept.
The surprising resilience of criminal organizations: new insights from complexity science
Small criminal groups are like tiny marbles easily nudged between valleys. As groups grow, they become like bowling balls, settling deep and resistant to disruption.
Penguins, Poles and Politics
Utopia or hell? The geopolitics of the Antarctica Treaty System
Releasing Python's GIL
And how to go vroom vroom without any seg faults
Why are criminals so succesful?
Dive into the complex world of organized crime with insights from complexity science and witness criminal behavior through the interactive simulation.
Intro to concurrent computing (in Nim)
How to make your code go vroom vroom.
How can slime molds compute shortest paths?
(and how to write a simulator from scratch in D3 and Nim)
Measuring CO2 around the House
Ever wonder what's in the air you breathe while working from home? Follow along as I build a DIY air quality monitor that tracks CO2, dust particles, and more!
Riddles & programming
Solving Advent of Code with Nim
Speeding up python code with cython pure
Upgrading my NAS
The long night of debuging
From matplotlib to D3
Cython templates
Become a wrapping master!
Splitboard: the bluetooth split keyboard
Designing and building a splitkeyboard from hardware to firmware!
Expanding the farm
Creating the fastest chicken alive!
Wrapping cpp in cython and python
F-strings are awesome!
Exploring some neat features I wasn't aware of
Growing pains
Setting up mu4e for office 365 with OAUTH2
Covid dashboard
How the pandemic spread through the Netherlands. Click for pretty animations!
Rock-paper-scissor dynamics to study biodiversity
How roschambo can generate fluid-like patterns.
