Davida gaat in kostbare huiswerktijd €3,81 verdienen, zodat haar broertje en zusje kunnen eten. Zouden de miljonairs die van de huidige crises profiteren doorhebben wat zich nu in de samenleving afspeelt? Lees hier mijn eerste column als vaste columnist voor het VO-Magazine!

I have put together a book with over 100 contributors that will share expertise and experiences from people all over the world. These crises are the biggest story in the world, and they must be spoken as far and wide as our voices can carry, and much further still.

Waarom kiezen vluchtelingen ervoor om hierheen te komen? Dat moet haast wel komen door onze Hollandse gastvrijheid. #Plakshot

Die Lebensgrundlagen fliegen uns um die Ohren, aber das ist höchstens ein zweitrangiges Problem, weil irgendwer hat Kartoffelbrei verkippt. Ich verliere nicht oft die Geduld im Fernsehen. Hier schon. #DontLookUp

Last night I ate my first 3-D constructed steak, made entirely from plants, at the great Chouchou restaurant in Stockholm. It's astonishing. The texture's exactly right and the taste is excellent. This is *before* we have precision fermented proteins, encapsulated fats and heme.

Full statement here 👉 extinctionrebellion.uk/2022/12/31/we-…

GPT-4 for personalized education: ted.com/talks/sal_khan…

Let's transcend to a more enlightened understanding of AI alignment. Read Jaron Lanier's take that we shouldn't think of AI as a alien intelligence but rather a new form of human social collaboration. unherd.com/2023/05/how-hu…

here's a quick write-up of a way I'm using OpenAI's embeddings that I haven't seen before. For my writing app, I want to highlight each sentence on any scale: ✨ happy — sad ✨ concrete — abstract ✨ + anything! but had to get creative to do this cheaply, quickly, & robustly

This might be my favourite 2 minutes of tv ever. George Monbiot getting straight to the heart of what we need to do: system change. #degrowth

We're stuck in a civilization that doesn't have a sustainable objective function! We are already in a paper clip maximizer, and people are worried about AI as an existential risk?! Newsflash! We are the AI that will kill us all!

De term warmtetransitie is misleidend. We hebben ook een koude/koelte vraag. Oók voor woningen. Die vraag moet je meenemen in de transitievisie (van gemeenten). We staan voor een warmte-koude-transitie.

Extremely well written and factually supported article on the history and (challenging) future of nuclear energy and its politics by Jesse Frederik at De Correspondent. It's in Dutch but if you translate it in your browser it is eminently readable too. decorrespondent.nl/15355/kernener…

Healthy and tasty protein from CO2, water, and electricity. Some people will hate it, but for me, it's one of the most exciting technological breakthroughs I can imagine. I hope it becomes a commercial success and I really want to buy it asap.

The Dog, the Quad and the Wild Wild Land Rural Depopulation & Land Use Change in Scotland a thread provoked by "The Last Keeper" a film by Tom Opre Preface I'm not a rural worker. But my dad was, he was a shepherd who worked with a dog & lost his job to land use change 1/20

⚡️ Excited to share that I am starting an AI+Education company called Eureka Labs. The announcement: --- We are Eureka Labs and we are building a new kind of school that is AI native. How can we approach an ideal experience for learning something new? For example, in the case

Two ways to do the #backtoschool run. Top: drop-off at an elementary school in South Carolina. Bottom: an elementary school in #Holland. The American way: stressed parents, inactive kids, more pollution. The European way: independent, healthy kids, and cleaner air for all.

New 4 GWh (1 GW) LFP grid battery for just $60/kWh! A tip from Kevin Gunan Shang with translation from Chinese here: www-escn-com-cn.translate.goog/20241213/1c14d…

Watch Nadella describe SaaS apps as nothing more than a CRUD database with some business logic, but once the business logic moves to AI agents, SaaS is over:

It doesn't happen often but "I've been had" by the media. Specifically Hart van Nederland (Hart van Nederland). I told them electric cars catch fire 50x less than combustion vehicles. They leave that out and only let me talk about the fires being more problematic. hartvannederland.nl/uitzendingen/h…