Im Westen nichts neues von Erich Maria Remarque

 

Paul Bäumer

"Er fiel im Oktober 1918, an einem Tage, der so ruhig und still war an der ganzen Front, daß der Heeresbericht sich nur auf den Satz beschränkte, im Westen sei nichts Neues zu melden."

Leeslijst november 2020

 

1. Andrés Neuman, El viajero del siglo
2. Erich Maria Remarque, Im Westen nichts neues 
3. Max Gallo, Mathilde
4. Max Gallo, Sarah
5. Karine Giebel, Chambres noirs
6. Stephen King, L'Institut
7. James S. A. Corey, Les cendres de Babylone (6)
8. James S. A. Corey, Le soulèvement de Persépolis (7)
9. Barack Obama, A promised land
10. Salman Rushdie, Quichot
11. Salman Rushdie, Schaamte
12. Isabel Allende, El juego de Ripper
13. Juan Marsé, Rabos de lagartija 
14. Jean d'Aillon, Nostradamus et le dragon de Raphaël
15. Salman Rushdie, Middernachtskinderen
16. Nicci French, Thursday's child
17. Heinrich Böll, Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum
18. Patrick Süskind, Das Parfum
19. Andreas Gruber, Todesmal

Gelezen in oktober 2020

1. Joël Dicker, La disparition de Stephanie Mailer
2. Jaron Lanier, Tien argumenten om je sociale media-accounts nu meteen te verwijderen
3. Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction
4. Camilla Lackberg, The Gilded Cage
5. Pauline Delabriy-Allard, Ça raconte Sarah
6. Christoph Keller, Der Boden unter den Füßen
7. Hermann Hesse [Nobel 1946], Der Steppenwolf
8. Herta Müller [Nobel 2009], En tierras bajas
9. Fred Vargas, L' homme aux cercles bleus
10. M. Tournier, Le coq de bruyère
11. Max Gallo, Mariella
12. Ken Follett, World without end (Kingsbridge 2)
13. Ken Follett, a column of fire (Kingsbridge 3)
14. Stephen King, If it bleeds
15. Willem Frederik Hermans, Au pair
16. Xiaolong Qiu, Chine, retiens ton souffle

Leesstatistieken 2020 tot 23 oktober

Overzicht van (84) gelezen boeken in 2020 tot 23 oktober :

Nederlands (10)

Duits (11)

Engels (14)

Frans (21)

Spaans (26)

Latijn (2)

Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction

 

Een interessant boek over de werking van geautomatiseerde modellen en databases die ondanks de soms goede bedoelingen (grotere objectiviteit) en vaak dankzij de minder goede bedoelingen van kille kostenbesparingen automatisch leiden tot zeer ongewenste uitkomsten, vooral voor financieel zwakkeren in de maatschappij. De tekst is goed leesbaar en de gegeven voorbeelden zijn duidelijk en zeer illustratief.

"A model takes what we know and uses it to predict responses in various situations.

Models are opinions embedded in mathematics.

A signature quality of "Weapons of Math Destruction": when the model itself contributes to a toxic cycle and helps to sustain it [=> e.g. diverting police resources to a particular neighbourhood and due to that increased police presence automatically finding more instances of criminality which then seems to justify the inital diversion and results in even a larger diversion of police forces to the same area which results in higher crime figures, etc..].

Three elements of WMD: opacity, scale and damage.

Although some people benefit (when using supposedly impartial models rather than opiniated humans in selection or awarding processes), too many suffer from the consequences of using WMD's. 

Big data processes codify the past and they do not invent the future. Human decison making can evolve; learning from mistakes and adapt. Automated systems do not, and changes depend on when they are reengineered. "

Jaron Lanier, Tien argumenten om je sociale media-accounts nu meteen te verwijderen

  

Een erg interessant boek!

BUMMER "Behavior of Users Modified, and Made into an Empire for Rent"

“is a machine, a statistical machine that lives in the computing clouds….Even at their best, BUMMER algorithms can only calculate the chances that a person will act in a particular way. But what might be only a chance for each person approaches being a certainty on the average for large numbers of people. The overall population can be affected with greater predictability than can any single person. Since BUMMER’s influence is statistical, the menace is a little like climate change. You can’t say climate change is responsible for a particular storm, flood, or drought, but you can say it changes the odds they’ll happen.”

 The ten arguments in a nutshell:

1. You are losing your free will. If you don’t quit, "you are not creating the space in which Silicon Valley can act to improve itself".
2. Quitting social media is the most finely targeted way to resist the insanity of our times. It’s more efficient at harming society than at improving it. Simply quitting can change the world.
3. Social media is making you into an asshole. Lanier says Donald Trump is a victim of his own addiction to twitter (37,400 tweets). For the most powerful politician in the world, his behavior is no better than a teenaged troll. He is not alone.
4. Social media is undermining truth. 
5. Social media is making what you say meaningless.
6. Social media is destroying your capacity for empathy.
7. Social media is making you unhappy.
8. Social media doesn’t want you to have economic dignity. This is the most jarring argument. Lanier says the free model everyone pushed for in the 80s and 90s gave rise to the ad model, and with it the ability to create uncountable millions of fake humans and their corresponding spam and troll activity.
9. Social media is making politics impossible. “There are so few independent news sites, and they’re precious ... Our huge nation is only a few organizations away from having no independent newsrooms with resources and clout.“
10. Social media hates your soul.

 

Leeslijst oktober 2020

 

1. Andrés Neuman, El viajero del siglo
2. Joël Dicker, La disparition de Stephanie Mailer
3. Jaron Lanier, Tien argumenten om je sociale media-accounts nu meteen te verwijderen
4. Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction
5. Camilla Lackberg, The Gilded Cage
6. Pauline Delabriy-Allard, Ça raconte Sarah
7. Christoph Keller, Der Boden unter den Füßen
8. Hermann Hesse [Nobel 1946], Der Steppenwolf
9. Herta Müller [Nobel 2009], En tierras bajas
10. Fred Vargas, L' homme aux cercles bleus
11. M. Tournier, Le coq de bruyère
12. Max Gallo, Mariella
13. Ken Follett, World without end (Kingsbridge 2)
14. Ken Follett, a column of fire (Kingsbridge 3)
15. Stephen King, If it bleeds
16. Willem Frederik Hermans, Au pair
17. Erich Maria Remarque, Im Westen nichts neues 
18. Xiaolong Qiu, Chine, retiens ton souffle

Gelezen in september

1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Leiden des jungen Werther
2. Heinrich Gerlach, Durchbruch bei Stalingrad, 1944
3. Rosa Montero, Lágrimas en la lluvia
4. Akira Mizubayashi, Âme brisée
5. Michel Bussi, J'ai dû rêver trop fort
6. Rosa Montero, El peso del corazón
7. Donna Tartt, Het puttertje
8. Hermann Hesse [Nobel 1946], Narziß und Goldmund

Leeslijst september 2020

 

1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Leiden des jungen Werther
2. Heinrich Gerlach, Durchbruch bei Stalingrad, 1944
3. Rosa Montero, Lágrimas en la lluvia
4. Andrés Neuman, El viajero del siglo
5. Akira Mizubayashi, Âme brisée
6. Michel Bussi, J'ai dû rêver trop fort
7. Juan Marsé, Rabos de lagartija
8. Rosa Montero, El peso del corazón
9. Donna Tartt, Het puttertje
10. Günter Grass, Die Blechtrommel
11. Hermann Hesse, Narziß und Goldmund
12. Joël Dicker, La disparition de Stephanie Mailer

Gelezen in augustus

1. José María Gironella, Ha estallado la paz
2. Jo NesbØ, El Redentor
3. Jo NesbØ, Petirrojo
4. Qiu Xiaolong, Muerte de una heroína roja
5. Stieg Larsson, Verdammnis (Millennium-Trilogie 2)
6. Stieg Larsson, Vergebung (Millennium-Trilogie 3)
7. Patrick Modiano, Encre sympathique
8. Laurent Binet, Civilizations [Académie Française 2019] 

Leeslijst augustus 2020

1. José María Gironella, Ha estallado la paz
2. Jo NesbØ, El Redentor
3. Jo NesbØ, Petirrojo
4. Laurent Binet, Civilizations [Académie Française 2019] 
5. Qiu Xiaolong, Muerte de una heroína roja
6. Stieg Larsson, Verdammnis (Millennium-Trilogie 2)
7. Stieg Larsson, Vergebung (Millennium-Trilogie 3)
8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Leiden des jungen Werther
9. Heinrich Gerlach, Durchbruch bei Stalingrad, 1944
10. Rosa Montero, Lágrimas en la lluvia
11. Raquel Taranilla, Noche y océano 
12. Patrick Modiano, Encre sympathique
13. Akira Mizubayashi, Âme brisée

Gelezen in juli

1. Ken Follet, Die Säulen der Erde
2. Victor Hugo, Dernier jour d'un condamné
3. Luc Lang, La Tentation  [Médici 2019]    
4. Jean-Christophe Rufin, Globalia
5. Lawrence Wright, The end of october

Leeslijst juli

Leeslijst juli 2020

1. Ken Follet, Die Säulen der Erde
2. José María Gironella, Ha estallado la Paz
3. Victor Hugo, Dernier jour d'un condamné
4. Luc Lang, La Tentation  [Médici 2019]    
5. Laurent Binet, Civilizations [Académie Française 2019] 
6. Jean-Christophe Rufin, Globalia
7. Jo NesbØ, El Redentor
8. Isabel Allende, Más allá del invierno 

Gelezen in juni 2020

1. Julia Navaro, Dime quién soy
2. Gabriel García Márquez [Nobel 1982], El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
3. Gabriel García Márquez [Nobel 1982], El amor en los tiempos de cólera
4. Isabel Allende, Ines del alma mia 
5. James Clavell, Shogun

leeslijst juni 2020

Leeslijst juni 2020

1. Ken Follet, Die Säulen der Erde
2. Luigi Miraglia, Fabulae Syrae
3. Ludovici Carroll, Alicia in terra mirabili
4. Miguel Cervantes, Don Quijote de la Mancha I 
5. José María Gironella, Ha estallado la Paz
6. Jo NesbØ, El Redentor
7. Julia Navaro, Dime quién soy
8. Gabriel García Márquez [Nobel 1982], Del amor y otros demonios
9. Gabriel García Márquez [Nobel 1982], El general en su laberinto  
10. Gabriel García Márquez [Nobel 1982], El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
11. Gabriel García Márquez [Nobel 1982], El Otoño del patriarca 

Gelezen in mei 2020

1. Gabriel García Márquez [Nobel 1982], La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada 
2. Sylvain Tesson, La Panthère des neiges  [Renaudot 2019]   
3. Laurent Binet, Civilizations [Académie Française 2019] [abandonné] 
4. Jean-Paul Dubois, Tous les hommes n’habitent pas le monde de la même façon [Goncourt 2019]