Author: ErnieS
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Covid numbers in CN, NL and the US ’20 – 23′
Since the beginning of December 2022 the press reports on COVID-measures and their sustained enforcement practices leading to troubles in the PRC. As in the Netherlands we seem to have forgotten about COVID and its measures, I decided to unearth an old program and make a few plots, as the WHO still reports daily on…
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Translations
紅樓夢 or The Dream of the Red Chamber is one of China’s four classics. It is said to be a masterpiece that clarifies much of China’s cultural foundation. Looking for that clarification, I tried to read it in David Hawkes’ acclaimed English translation, but couldn’t get through. A month or so ago a Dutch translation,…
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4 Selected Images
If happiness is the experience of being an active part of an ecological equilibrium, I thought on September 27, then the images you collect provide the data on which that experience rests. So that the happiness experience of those who walk outside will differ from those who live in silico. Below are four of the…
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The image collector and the director
It was July, there was wind and it was 24 degrees. The sun was shining. Ernst, who considers himself more of an image collector than a director, expected at least two heat waves, just like last year. And the year before that, and the year before that. Janine couldn’t tolerate more than 23 degrees since…
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Arnoud Waller
My mother, Wendela, who was a daughter of Arnoud, lived from 1912 to 1994, my grandfather from 1873 to 1953. Nescio (no relation) from 1882 to 1961. Nescio’s biography contains a lot of information about the times and the worlds where my parents and grandparents had to go through. Had to because ‘politionele acties‘ and…
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Nescio, his walks and Bert Verhoeff
Nescio’s Natuurdagboek (Nature Diary) is for himself. A log. With times and places of trips to where those who have legs and eyes can harvest images. And back. And with keywords that were enough for him, such as “First of all: on the Brink on a bench and looking through the young greenery to the…
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Nescio Revisited
Nienke gave me Nescio’s biography. It is incredibly well written, so I reread his first stories. Reluctantly at first because I had read them when I was 15, on the advice of my older brother, and I didn’t like them. After De Uitvreter and Titaantjes I hadn’t gotten past the opening dialogues of Dichtertje. Much…
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Freedom Day and a Tentative Prediction
Today is Monday, July 19, 2021, Freedom Day in the UK. The COVID measures are gone. This led to massive physical fraternization in the streets, parks and clubs. Frenzied hustling crowds that body to body showed and screamed quite stupid texts. I remember that I once attended a Christmas Eve service in Ermelo, the apotheosis…
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Differences and Climate: the USA
Again: an ABCM pattern I’ve been maniacally busy with an impossible assignment for the last few weeks. An hour-long lecture to young scientists dedicated to machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI) and big data (BD) about complexity. I zoom in on five different forces that together form a social climate (veracity, loyalty, money, coercion and…
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Differences and Climate: China
I’ve been maniacally busy with an impossible assignment the last few weeks. An hour-long lecture to young scientists dedicated to machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI) and big data (BD) about complexity. I zoom in on five different forces that together form a social climate (veracity, loyalty, money, coercion and fitness) and try to show…