Henk Devos

Ants are very dumb little creatures. They don't know how to do anything. They just seem to do everything at random.

With so much research being done on Artificial Intelligence and learning, it is striking that all research seems to concentrate on reinforcement learning, while research on associative learning alm…

A friend in a formerly communist country explained to me how things were in the communist days. Many members of her family had been in prison because they were priests. There was only one TV channe…

Lori Lockwood can really make me sick. So be warned: If you ever catch her coming out of a Romanian hospital, couching, taking anti biotics, and saying she's all better: Stay away from her. Fortuna…

The European Commission (EC), something like the government of the European Union (EU), has convicted Microsoft to paying a fine of 500 million EURO (1 EURO is a bit more than 1 US$), disclosing in…

What happened before In the previous episode, we saw how our courageous hero Henk was fighting with the demons of administration, trying to renew his parking permit ("bewonerskaart") at Parko, the …

If any of you are interested in marketing: I've just started a new series of articles on marketing. The first example uses a recipe website as an example for conducting experiments.

Of course, being at a shareware conference in Russia is the ideal way to find out what is going on in the Russian marketplace. There are really 2 aspects to this: What we can buy from Russia (suppl…

Some time ago, i wrote an entry about a chat bot. Here is another one. Mostly the same remarks go for this oine as for the other one: It doesn't have much memory, and relies mostly on smart tricks.…