Daniel Probst
@skepteis.bsky.social
Computer scientist, Bioinformatician, PhD in Chemistry and Molecular Sciences. Working on the above as an Assistant Prof at WUR. Interested in all the sciences. Materialist. Fan of cats, Punk Rock, and Hockey.
One of my least favourite politicians 🤝 three of my least favourite companies.
The bar is quite high for both
The bar is quite high for both
Scientists just called out Ursula von der Leyen for claiming that AI will match human reasoning by 2026. Her "evidence" consisted, it turns out, of CEO statements from OpenAI, Anthropic and Nvidia. Not research. Marketing materials. 🧵
#AI #PublicServices #TechHype #Politics #NHS #EUPolitics
#AI #PublicServices #TechHype #Politics #NHS #EUPolitics
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
One of my least favourite politicians 🤝 three of my least favourite companies.
The bar is quite high for both
The bar is quite high for both
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1/ Everyone’s chasing AI.
But in bioinformatics, solid foundations still win.
Here’s why mastering the basics matters more than ever. 🧵
But in bioinformatics, solid foundations still win.
Here’s why mastering the basics matters more than ever. 🧵
November 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
1/ Everyone’s chasing AI.
But in bioinformatics, solid foundations still win.
Here’s why mastering the basics matters more than ever. 🧵
But in bioinformatics, solid foundations still win.
Here’s why mastering the basics matters more than ever. 🧵
It's hard for the German car industry to be in a worse situation
German car companies: "Hold my beer"
German car companies: "Hold my beer"
INTERVIEW: Give up on hydrogen and you hand the technology to China, says BMW | Euractiv
Jürgen Guldner, BMW’s hydrogen technology programme manager, tells Euractiv why he believes Europe shouldn’t give up on the technology just yet
www.euractiv.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It's hard for the German car industry to be in a worse situation
German car companies: "Hold my beer"
German car companies: "Hold my beer"
Wieder erschreckend was die Schweiz ohne NHL Spieler zeigt... und mMn liegt das nicht an den Spielern sondern am Coaching.
November 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Wieder erschreckend was die Schweiz ohne NHL Spieler zeigt... und mMn liegt das nicht an den Spielern sondern am Coaching.
I'm using an ANSI keyboard for the first time, and my dislike for it is somewhere between Fahrenheit and mm-dd-yyyy
November 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I'm using an ANSI keyboard for the first time, and my dislike for it is somewhere between Fahrenheit and mm-dd-yyyy
There definitively is an "AI" bubble in academia and, while I'm not sure about this specific case, it likely comes at the cost of the humanities and social sciences.
Both of which are more important than ever before.
Both of which are more important than ever before.
November 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
There definitively is an "AI" bubble in academia and, while I'm not sure about this specific case, it likely comes at the cost of the humanities and social sciences.
Both of which are more important than ever before.
Both of which are more important than ever before.
Let's also not forget about Raymond Gosling, the PhD student who took photo 51.
November 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Let's also not forget about Raymond Gosling, the PhD student who took photo 51.
Phrenology is back and it's, of course, still pseudoscience.
bro are you fucking kidding me
November 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Phrenology is back and it's, of course, still pseudoscience.
Niemand: Wie können wir unseren ökologischen Fussabdruck noch grösser machen? Einmal um die Welt schippen reicht nicht.
Private: Hold my beer.
"Auf privaten Raumstationen sollen künftig Hightechprodukte entstehen, bei deren Herstellung die Schwerelosigkeit quasi als Werkzeug zum Einsatz kommt."
Private: Hold my beer.
"Auf privaten Raumstationen sollen künftig Hightechprodukte entstehen, bei deren Herstellung die Schwerelosigkeit quasi als Werkzeug zum Einsatz kommt."
Die ISS fällt bald vom Himmel – und Private drängen in den Orbit
Die Tage der internationalen Raumstation ISS sind bald gezählt. Wie geht es danach weiter im Orbit der Erde?
www.srf.ch
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Niemand: Wie können wir unseren ökologischen Fussabdruck noch grösser machen? Einmal um die Welt schippen reicht nicht.
Private: Hold my beer.
"Auf privaten Raumstationen sollen künftig Hightechprodukte entstehen, bei deren Herstellung die Schwerelosigkeit quasi als Werkzeug zum Einsatz kommt."
Private: Hold my beer.
"Auf privaten Raumstationen sollen künftig Hightechprodukte entstehen, bei deren Herstellung die Schwerelosigkeit quasi als Werkzeug zum Einsatz kommt."
Just a random reminder that during the so-called war on terror, 4.5–4.6 million people were directly or indirectly murdered.
November 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Just a random reminder that during the so-called war on terror, 4.5–4.6 million people were directly or indirectly murdered.
You now have to publish reviews before you can put them on a preprint server.
Thanks LLMs.
Thanks LLMs.
The #arXiv computer science category is trying to cut down on AI slop spamming the system. They no longer accept un-published (journal or conference) review papers... Other categories may follow (depending on decisions by the moderators). ⚛️🧪☄️
blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...
blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
You now have to publish reviews before you can put them on a preprint server.
Thanks LLMs.
Thanks LLMs.
I try to avoid to buy from quite a few companies, but Nestlé, one of the worst, keeps tricking me into buying their stuff because I not always read labels closely or look up brand ownership.
The Shameful Case of Nestlé
YouTube video by Georg Rockall-Schmidt
youtu.be
November 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I try to avoid to buy from quite a few companies, but Nestlé, one of the worst, keeps tricking me into buying their stuff because I not always read labels closely or look up brand ownership.
Ah yes. Green liberalism.
November 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Ah yes. Green liberalism.
I'm quite new to the Dutch political landscape but...
November 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I'm quite new to the Dutch political landscape but...
An example of very problematic "AI" research.
"Even if we’re living in the imaginary land that the University of Michigan has created where there’s somehow no backup generators in the data center and it’s all daisies, I don’t want to build better weapons to bomb children in Third World countries."
"Even if we’re living in the imaginary land that the University of Michigan has created where there’s somehow no backup generators in the data center and it’s all daisies, I don’t want to build better weapons to bomb children in Third World countries."
Ypsilanti residents protest UMich data center construction
Update 10/17: This article has been updated to include a statistic on the facility’s proposed size provided by the University. Correction 10/20: This article’s image has been replaced to reflect that ...
www.michigandaily.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
An example of very problematic "AI" research.
"Even if we’re living in the imaginary land that the University of Michigan has created where there’s somehow no backup generators in the data center and it’s all daisies, I don’t want to build better weapons to bomb children in Third World countries."
"Even if we’re living in the imaginary land that the University of Michigan has created where there’s somehow no backup generators in the data center and it’s all daisies, I don’t want to build better weapons to bomb children in Third World countries."
Bsky tastes like HFCS today...
October 31, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Bsky tastes like HFCS today...
Reposted by Daniel Probst
FYI: It was always like this. They just did it to others.
October 31, 2025 at 10:56 AM
FYI: It was always like this. They just did it to others.
Reposted by Daniel Probst
"go to TikTok. See for yourself."
![Pop Base tweets: "Kim Kardashian said on ‘The Kardashians’ that she believes the moon landing was fake:
“They’re gonna say I’m crazy no matter what, but like, go to TikTok. See for yourself. […] There’s no gravity on the moon. Why is the flag blowing? The shoes that they have in the museum that they wore on the moon is a different print in the photos. Why are there no stars?”"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreickzwdynkak7r4lur6afktglm3gontqsq5r5c7jeewyecyd4dczla@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 4:25 AM
"go to TikTok. See for yourself."
Normalerweise sollte man ja nicht nur die Headline lesen. Hier ist eiene von SRF bei der mMn aber kein weiterer Kontext nötig ist (oder sein sollte):
"Zürich sagt definitiv Nein zur Aufnahme von verletzten Kindern"
"Zürich sagt definitiv Nein zur Aufnahme von verletzten Kindern"
October 30, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Normalerweise sollte man ja nicht nur die Headline lesen. Hier ist eiene von SRF bei der mMn aber kein weiterer Kontext nötig ist (oder sein sollte):
"Zürich sagt definitiv Nein zur Aufnahme von verletzten Kindern"
"Zürich sagt definitiv Nein zur Aufnahme von verletzten Kindern"
TIL that ~42 million (US) Americans rely on food stamps.
In totally unrelated news, Nvidia is now worth 5 trillion.
In totally unrelated news, Nvidia is now worth 5 trillion.
October 29, 2025 at 10:43 PM
TIL that ~42 million (US) Americans rely on food stamps.
In totally unrelated news, Nvidia is now worth 5 trillion.
In totally unrelated news, Nvidia is now worth 5 trillion.
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Kudos to @elenadelpup.bsky.social for this significant update to plantiSMASH! Try it out now...
🌱plantiSMASH 2.0💥 is now live!
I’m very excited to share that the 2.0 version of plantiSMASH is now available online and as a preprint on bioRxiv 📄https://lnkd.in/dN4F56pf
🌱 What’s new in plantiSMASH 2.0? ⬇️
I’m very excited to share that the 2.0 version of plantiSMASH is now available online and as a preprint on bioRxiv 📄https://lnkd.in/dN4F56pf
🌱 What’s new in plantiSMASH 2.0? ⬇️
plantiSMASH 2.0: improvements to detection, annotation, and prioritization of plant biosynthetic gene clusters https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.28.683968v1
October 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Kudos to @elenadelpup.bsky.social for this significant update to plantiSMASH! Try it out now...
"L'Europe est moralement, spirituellement indéfendable"
—Aimé Césaire
—Aimé Césaire
L'UE envisage de collaborer avec les talibans pour expulser les réfugiés afghans déboutés | RTS
La Commission européenne a fait part lundi de "contacts exploratoires" avec les talibans, en réponse à une lettre de 20 Etats membres lui réclamant de coordonner une stratégie pour expulser les Afghan...
www.rts.ch
October 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
"L'Europe est moralement, spirituellement indéfendable"
—Aimé Césaire
—Aimé Césaire
Revenue (2024)
Meta:. $165B
Bytedance:. $155B
Market cap, valuation (latest)
Meta:. $1,886B
Bytedance: $330B
Meta:. $165B
Bytedance:. $155B
Market cap, valuation (latest)
Meta:. $1,886B
Bytedance: $330B
Bubblegum Burst GIF
Alt: Bubblegum Burst GIF
media.tenor.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Revenue (2024)
Meta:. $165B
Bytedance:. $155B
Market cap, valuation (latest)
Meta:. $1,886B
Bytedance: $330B
Meta:. $165B
Bytedance:. $155B
Market cap, valuation (latest)
Meta:. $1,886B
Bytedance: $330B
What could possibly go wrong...
The fact that these are the numbers the company will put on the record … www.wired.com/story/chatgp...
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
What could possibly go wrong...