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Absurd donker
‘Het was zo donker dat zelfs de mol onder de grond tegen de muren van zijn hol botste en somber begon te mopperen.’― Toon Tellegen
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Krankzinnigheid
‘Krankzinnigheid in individuen is uitzonderlijk – maar in groepen, partijen, volkeren en tijdperken is het de regel.’― Nietzsche
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Working with dates and times in python
Having finished all the most urgent tasks at work and having started the year end vacation I decided to pick up my python learning on Datacamp again. I followed the course on working with dates and types in python which is part of their python programmer track. It was a nice introduction to the datetime library and how to use datetime objects in pandas. The nice thing about python is that for almost every task you can think of there is probably a library out there to do the heavy lifting for you. This is also the case for dates…
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Understanding the Universe. An introduction to physics and astrophysics, James B. Seaborn (ISBN 978-146126868-0, Springer)
James Seaborn has been teaching an introductory course for many years and this book is the translation into book form of that course. The book is intended for non science majors and teaches physics with an emphasis on topics and applications in astrophysics. I was curious to learn how that approach would work. The result is a physics course at the level of 6th grade high school but applying and illustrating the concepts from the first chapters to astronomy. The first chapters deal with Newton’s laws, uniform circular motion, energy conservation and the universal law of gravitation. This takes up…
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Command And Control, Eric Schlosser (ISBN 9780141037912, Penguin)
Command and Control is written by Eric Schlosser. I read his bestseller fastfood nation long ago and liked it a lot so when this book came out in 2014 I bought it and read it. It was a scary read at the time and this year while we were on holiday this summer I decided to read it again in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Having grown up during the Cold War and the nuclear arms race between the Soviet Union and the US I remember the relief when the Berlin Wall fell and the threat of nuclear…
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Barca. The rise and fall of the club that built modern football, Simon Kuper (ISBN 978-1780724744, Short Books)
This was really an enjoyable read. I don’t remember how exactly it ended up on my to read list but I must have read about it somewhere and as I used to enjoy watching Barcelona games on Dutch tv in the nineties I bought it and put it on the pile. Then a few weeks ago when the World Championship in Qutar started and I wasn’t going to watch a lot of the games due the continuous controversy around it (corruption, slave labour, …) I decided to read this book instead. I have to confess I didn’t ban watching the…
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First 550km with the Stromer ST3 Pinion
This week I reached the 550km mark on my new Stromer. I have it since mid October and due to some unforeseen circumstances I haven’t been in the office as much as expected so the kilometers have added up more slowly than normal. Still, I am now accustomed to the bike and have used it in bad weather without having to worry about the chain. I just get on and ride. Only part that suffers a bit from mud are the disc brakes so a bit of cleaning every now and then is needed there. When deciding on the model…
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