What I Care About
My main intellectual interests are statistics and artificial intelligence, which, somewhat unfashionably, were already the focus of my computer science studies more than thirty years ago. A special place belongs to time series analysis, where uncertainty, structure, and reality meet in particularly unforgiving ways.
What fascinates me about these fields is not hype or prediction, but their ability to impose discipline on thinking. Statistics teaches humility. Time series teach patience. AI, at its best, teaches us how little we actually understand.
Beside my father, my intellectual superhero is Paul Dirac. Extreme intelligence, uncompromising mathematics, zero tolerance for sloppy thinking.
Music: Tarja, Floor Jansen, Simone Simons, Clémentine
Delauney, Emma Shapplin, Depeche Mode, Metalwings
Film: Doctor Zhivago
Books: Ken Follett, Anne Rice
Computer Game: Civilization, Day of the Tentacle
Sport: Tennis