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Archive for August 22nd, 2024

Algoritmes nemen beslissingen over ons leven: hoe besluiten we of we automatische beslissingen van algoritmes willen accepteren? | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/22

[Wayback/Archive] Algoritmes nemen beslissingen over ons leven: hoe besluiten we of we automatische beslissingen van algoritmes willen accepteren? | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Ionica Smeets: “Het nieuwste nummer van Tijdsc…” – Mathstodon

Het nieuwste nummer van Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap staat online en gaat helemaal over Human-Machine Communication. Met bijvoorbeeld dit interessante artikelvan Gabi Schaap over hoe we besluiten of we automatische beslissingen van algoritmes willen accepteren.

--jeroen

Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

The mojibake “creëer”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/22

A while ago, I found the “creëer” mojibake in a Dutch page on the IKEA site.

They were not alone to make this mistake which is easily explained using [Wayback/Archive] ftfy:

>>> ftfy.fix_and_explain("creëer")
ExplainedText(text='creëer', explanation=[('encode', 'latin-1'), ('decode', 'utf-8')])

(you can run this on-line at [Wayback/Archive] Welcome to Python.org: interactive shell, see my post The things I didn’t notice during cancer survival: ftfy 6.0 and more versions got released during my recovery on how to do this)

So the text is easily fixed:

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Posted in Development, Encoding, ftfy, ISO-8859, ISO8859, Software Development, Unicode, UTF-8, UTF8, Web Development | Leave a Comment »