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Die begrenzte Transfer-Intelligenz von AI
Kürzlich bin ich über ein altes Uniprojekt der kombinatorischen Optimierung gestolpert. Darin ging es um die Berechnung der “Peaceable army of N queens”: Gegeben einer Schachbrettgröße DxD, wieviele N Damen von beiden Farben kann man maximal aufstellen, sodass sich die Damen nicht gegenseitig schlagen können (peace). Dieses Problem haben wir damals für kleinere D mit…
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[ongoing] Book Review: Trust Chaos by Christian Zippel
Das beste Buch, das ich je gelesen habe.
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Reality Check: Wie du dir verschiedene Realitäten einreden kannst
Wir haben diese Woche Champions League geschaut. Es standen die ersten Runden der “Play-Offs” an, die Runde der letzten 32, oder 64, oder vielleicht sogar die letzten 128? So wie der Wettbewerb mittlerweile aufgeblasen ist könnte das durchaus sein, aber das ist ein anderes Thema. Jedenfalls wollten wir uns das Spiel Benfica Lissabon – Real…
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Simulations of the German “DFB-Pokal”: Evaluating Tournament Outcomes with a Stochastic Model
In the last season 2023/2024 of the German cup in football, the so-called “DFB-Pokal”, a team from the 3rd league, 1. FC Saarbrücken, made it to the semi-finals. Not only does this seem to be a rare event, but they also eliminated three Bundesliga clubs in previous rounds. By the semi-finals, Bayer Leverkusen was the…
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Why You Should Think (at least) Twice: A Scientific Approach to Decision-Making
The world bestseller “Thinking, Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman explores two systems of thought: We will look at System 2. It is responsible for complex judgments and decisions requiring effort and concentration. It addresses how this deliberate thought process can be influenced by biases and overconfidence, often leading to errors in decision-making. But what does…
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Setting up an automated daily posting Twitter-Bot in Python
UPDATE: The developer access was widely withdrawn from many accounts since Elon Musk bought Twitter (now “X”). So did it happen to my Twitter-Bot, therefore the account is not posting anymore automatically. Python is a powerful programming language suitable for most tasks one can think of. Most platforms offer easily applicable APIs accessed through Python…
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How you increase the maximum upload filesize in WordPress within your Apache / PHP configuration
Recently, I set up a server backend where I ran into a common problem of WordPress installations: It was surprisingly complicated to change the maximum upload size for adding new media via the website’s frontend. The consequence is that you cannot upload files larger than the standard setting (2 MB), which is highly problematic for…
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Why doing the opposite can be highly effective — analogy to non-convex optimization
In my personal environment, I see many people (including myself) who constantly find themselves captured in their ineffective patterns. They face a problem and try to solve it, and if it doesn’t work out, they try to apply the same method again or even harder in some way. And if the problem gets solved, they…
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How you easily scrape websites using Python
In my last blog post about Hypothesis testing on football players consciously getting yellow cards to be suspended for the next away match, I scraped the website of the German Bundesliga to reach out for the necessary data. This post will describe how we can easily fetch any data from the web and apply it…
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