Michael Westergaard

Studying to be part of the problem. Listener of Britney songs, toucher of computers, knower of psychology.

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2026-09-13 13:30:10 UTC

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Just block the user agent. Has kept them out for me. The user agent is a python library which will never need access.

2026-09-05 16:38:28 UTC

Let's do a back-of-the-envelope calculation of the cost of earning €1 by an #AI company and see why it is likely that your subscription costs will sky-rocket.
You have to ask yourself two questions regarding pivoting your business to AI:
1) does our #business case also work if the costs of AI 100x or 1000x?
2) can we roll back our pivot to AI when it becomes unprofitable?
If you cannot answer yes to at least one of these, pivoting to AI is a bad decision.
https://westergaard.site/2026/09/remember-when-netflix-was-good-this-is-about-ai/

2026-06-17 09:09:28 UTC

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Isn't that the version that came out almost a week ago? Why is it being announced now?

2026-06-05 11:29:33 UTC

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Cars have 4(ish) doors and 4(ish) wheels so they don't matter. Bikes have 2(ish) wheels and no doors. Houses have ~10 doors and no wheels. Nothing else has wheels or doors. There are likely not 5 times as many bikes as houses in the world. Ergo, doors.

2026-05-11 10:52:52 UTC

In computer science, a famous problem is whether "P = NP," i.e., whether production = non-production. The answer is yes, because YOLO.

2026-03-10 10:06:13 UTC

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Are you looking for solutions or for surveillance?

2026-02-03 21:58:38 UTC

Sooo… weird question. Is anybody aware of a good #statistics package for #Java (or callable from Java, so #Scala, #Kotlin, or other #JVM languages) that supports #PERMANOVA?
Or a way to run #R from Java? #Renjin or #JRI (part of #rJava)? `adonis/adonis2` supposedly supports PERMANOVA.

2025-11-05 12:56:27 UTC

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That man has predicted over a dozen apocalypses since 2008. Let's not necessarily take financial advice from the guy predicting 15 of the last 1 stock crashes: https://moneyzine.com/investments/investing/how-many-times-has-michael-burry-been-wrong/

2025-05-08 12:40:28 UTC

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The step to a workable EU cloud is really not that far. Since the CLOUD act came out, I've insisted we rely on open standards in the cloud. That means, we build on k8s, postgresql, etc.
We can deploy the same application stack on any cloud provider (we largely host on DigitalOcean and Azure, but have in the past been on Google Cloud and AWS as well).
If EU hosting providers (or intermediaries) start providing flexible k8s and a handful of basic services (most standard databases, a couple standard queues, bucket and volume storage) it is possible to do cloud projects without a dedicated infrastructure team, taking care of most custom enterprise applications. More advanced services can be provided by third parties.
Office applications (email, video calling, document editing, etc) can be implemented entirely in parallel to this. SAP is already European.

2025-04-20 19:05:35 UTC

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2025-02-13 20:28:40 UTC

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Focusing on the industry is missing the point: why does the US allow legit companies selling their customer data in the first place? This is almost entirely a US problem.
Why does the US insist on inventing insane technological solutions like a blockchain to fix a US-only broken banking system instead of looking at working solutions abroad?

2025-02-08 16:07:00 UTC

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I wonder if that’s enough redundancy, what with definitely not Russian ships definitely accidentally cutting cables in the Baltic Sea lately…