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Few purchases in life come with so much uncertainty as buying a car. As a buyer you have no idea what’s under the hood or if the car will break down in its first hundred kilometers. This problem is also known as
Ignoring a hiatus of 3 years, I have been following Flanders’ most popular soap ‘Thuis’ since season 2, a little less than 25 years ago. That anniversary deserves a blog posts. If you’re a die hard fan like me, unlike those bandwagon
Yesterday, Iceland gained a point against Argentina by putting up an icy wall in front of their goal. Nothing adds more spice to a football game than an underdog holding out against a football superpower. Sometimes details are responsible for second tier
Me and my fellow (post-)millennials are branded as lazy and narcistic, staring at the blue light of our devices all day. But has anyone considered we entered a job market that was in shambles, have to fear the rise of the robots,
What’s driving users of social networks to engage into conversations? More specifically, what’s driving them to discuss the news? That’s what I was wondering. From 8 December until 10 January I collected 1.3 million comments on articles that were submitted within 24
Over six months ago I published a blog post about the existing ‘unfairness’ in the Eurovision Song Contest. In several graphs I showed how there is a bias for viewers and jury to vote for candidates and their acts who performed at
In less than a day, HBO’s most watched and for 5 years in a row, the world’s most pirated TV show, Game of Thrones hits the small screen again for the first episode of its 7th season. Whether you’re in team Targaryen,
Gorilla suits don’t win you a Eurovision Song Contest. Milk jugs don’t either. Neither does yodeling on a cannon. What does help is the ranking order position in which you perform. After all, the saying (matthew 20:16) goes “So the last will be
After reading Steve Lohr’s book ‘Data-Ism‘, it became clear how big data – the recent evolution in computing, cheap computing power, cheap storage, cheap hardware – can make the jump to the tangible world. In his book, Lohr gives the example of a
Edit: De regering heeft enkele weken na dit bericht de taksencompositie op tabak/sigaretten gewijzigd. Die wijzigingen maken een einde aan de bevindingen bevindingen in dit blogbericht. Rokers brachten de schatkist in 2016 3,086 miljard euro op. Dat is een smak geld, maar