https://blog.luyckx.dev/posts/Recent content in Posts on Marco Luyckx | blogHugoen-GBThu, 03 Sep 2026 15:14:00 +0200https://blog.luyckx.dev/posts/compared-to-what/Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:14:00 +0200https://blog.luyckx.dev/posts/compared-to-what/“Everything is relative” gets used to end arguments about measuring people. The largest attempt ever made to weigh suffering says it points the wrong way: the relative judgment is the part that works.https://blog.luyckx.dev/posts/average-by-definition/Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:30:00 +0200https://blog.luyckx.dev/posts/average-by-definition/Playing it safe is not the absence of a bet. It is a bet on the mean, placed on the one outcome that greatness is defined against.https://blog.luyckx.dev/posts/the-second-industrialization/Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:55:00 +0200https://blog.luyckx.dev/posts/the-second-industrialization/Intellectual work was industrialized in the 1790s, and the machine to replace it was planned in 1832. The belief that reasoning and creativity were exempt is the pattern’s oldest product.https://blog.luyckx.dev/posts/the-kolmogorov-school/Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:50:00 +0200https://blog.luyckx.dev/posts/the-kolmogorov-school/A century of genius schools failed in five different ways. This is the design that survives all five, assembled from the evidence.https://blog.luyckx.dev/posts/this-blog-changes-its-mind/Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0200https://blog.luyckx.dev/posts/this-blog-changes-its-mind/Darwin rewrote the Origin five times, in public. Posts here work the same way: every revision of the thinking stays readable, diffs and all.https://blog.luyckx.dev/posts/the-correction-nobody-read/Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200https://blog.luyckx.dev/posts/the-correction-nobody-read/Dunning-Kruger has been seriously challenged for a decade. The challenges are cited about ninety times less than the finding.https://blog.luyckx.dev/posts/the-law-goodhart-did-not-write/Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200https://blog.luyckx.dev/posts/the-law-goodhart-did-not-write/The line everyone quotes about measures and targets is not the one Charles Goodhart wrote. And the difference matters.https://blog.luyckx.dev/posts/compliance-ate-the-password/Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200https://blog.luyckx.dev/posts/compliance-ate-the-password/An expert got the password rules wrong in 2003. That is not the interesting part. The interesting part is the fourteen years.https://blog.luyckx.dev/posts/shai-hulud-npm-worm/Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200https://blog.luyckx.dev/posts/shai-hulud-npm-worm/A self-replicating worm in the npm ecosystem, explained simply, and what it changes about how we think about dependencies.