#Personal Opinion
I use this tag for posts where I step back from technical details and reflect more openly on science, academia, technology, but also broader societal issues related to these themes. These entries are usually more subjective than my other writing here, always grown out of personal experience. Posts tagged with Personal Opinion thus provide a space for me to share thoughts that don’t fit neatly into technical categories, allowing for a more candid and nuanced discussion of topics that matter to me.
There are currently 13 articles with this tag (newest first):
Reflections on joining Bluesky: Opportunities and risks for the scientific community
Over the past two weeks, I have taken a closer look at Bluesky, exploring its features and dynami...
Visualizing Occam’s Razor through machine learning
Here, we illustrate the concept of Occam’s Razor, a principle advocating for simplicity, by exami...
Zen and natural sciences
In this post, I broaden the scope and explore the intersections of Zen and natural sciences more...
The Zen of Python
The connection between Zen and programming is not a subjective one at all. For instance, Python h...
The Zen of programming
Some thoughts about the connections between Zen and programming.
DEVONthink and privacy
One thing I really love about DEVONthink, is its high security and privacy measures regarding the...
I’m on Mastodon
Mastodon is not just a Twitter alternative. It’s a free and open-source social media platform of ...
Laying off thousands of employees: Not okay! How to delete a Twitter account
Putting thousands of people on the street is anything else than cool. Here is how to fix it.
Putting text sources into the Zettelkasten?
Should text sources (ebooks, PDF, website snapshots) be saved in a Zettelkasten?
On project notes in the Zettelkasten
Should project notes be a type of notes of their own in our Zettelkasten?
The quickest way to find help for Python commands: The help() command
Python’s built-in help system is probably the fastest way, to quickly look up Python commands and...
On teaching
I strongly believe that teaching is not a unidirectional thing, but both sides, the participants ...
On website subscriptions via RSS and Atom feeds
Personal opinion on how to create and maintain personal news feeds beyond the dependence on big s...