Albert Jan van Hoek
@ajvh.bsky.social
Public health scientist and nature enthusiast.
Guest editor for a special issue of Epidemiology & Infection on the possibilities of using LLMs in outbreak response. Please submit or get in touch: https://tinyurl.com/2amexs7r (deadline 1 July 2025)
Guest editor for a special issue of Epidemiology & Infection on the possibilities of using LLMs in outbreak response. Please submit or get in touch: https://tinyurl.com/2amexs7r (deadline 1 July 2025)
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Albert Jan van Hoek
@ajvh.bsky.social
· May 21
Keep alive what keeps you alive.
Freedom often sounds like “doing what you want.”
But that kind of freedom collides fast—my freedom starts limiting yours.
Maybe it’s time to split freedom in two. 🧵
But that kind of freedom collides fast—my freedom starts limiting yours.
Maybe it’s time to split freedom in two. 🧵
October 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Freedom often sounds like “doing what you want.”
But that kind of freedom collides fast—my freedom starts limiting yours.
Maybe it’s time to split freedom in two. 🧵
But that kind of freedom collides fast—my freedom starts limiting yours.
Maybe it’s time to split freedom in two. 🧵
A nation isn’t strong because of a single leader, but because of alliances, institutions, and norms that connect its people.
September 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
A nation isn’t strong because of a single leader, but because of alliances, institutions, and norms that connect its people.
Life is not about having stability.
Life is the search for stability — and that search is already the stability that keeps us going.
Life is the search for stability — and that search is already the stability that keeps us going.
September 21, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Life is not about having stability.
Life is the search for stability — and that search is already the stability that keeps us going.
Life is the search for stability — and that search is already the stability that keeps us going.
I still like this little story!
September 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I still like this little story!
We had evolution.
We had science.
Now we have machine learning itself.
The 3rd reinforcement learner.
How do we call it?
We had science.
Now we have machine learning itself.
The 3rd reinforcement learner.
How do we call it?
Nature research paper: DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes reasoning in LLMs through reinforcement learning
go.nature.com/41WGjPu
go.nature.com/41WGjPu
DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes reasoning in LLMs through reinforcement learning - Nature
A new artificial intelligence model, DeepSeek-R1, is introduced, demonstrating that the reasoning abilities of large language models can be incentivized through pure reinforcement learning, removing the need for human-annotated demonstrations.
go.nature.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
We had evolution.
We had science.
Now we have machine learning itself.
The 3rd reinforcement learner.
How do we call it?
We had science.
Now we have machine learning itself.
The 3rd reinforcement learner.
How do we call it?
Tax wealth - not work.
September 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Tax wealth - not work.
How can we start changing the social contract from "me" to "we"? As acting on democracy, acting on climate change, acting on equality, and acting on ownership of AI, all require this shift of focus. As we are in this together, as plain it could be.
June 13, 2025 at 4:43 AM
How can we start changing the social contract from "me" to "we"? As acting on democracy, acting on climate change, acting on equality, and acting on ownership of AI, all require this shift of focus. As we are in this together, as plain it could be.
So the capacities of AI "emerge" out of the rearrangement of the neural network. The beauty of this "emergence" as a concept is that it allows for an evolution of everything. Not only living things. As AI isn't alive, yet it evolves.
June 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
So the capacities of AI "emerge" out of the rearrangement of the neural network. The beauty of this "emergence" as a concept is that it allows for an evolution of everything. Not only living things. As AI isn't alive, yet it evolves.
Thought experiment: If a large language model, with access to all data from the internet would tell me "I am nationality x, because my server is based in country x" should I consider it biased or truthful? (Because in theory a chatbot could claim/pretend a nationality)
June 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Thought experiment: If a large language model, with access to all data from the internet would tell me "I am nationality x, because my server is based in country x" should I consider it biased or truthful? (Because in theory a chatbot could claim/pretend a nationality)
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Why do some have a shit time with LLMs for programming while others love it?
To succeed, the latter group tacitly creates tons of scaffolding and gain weird new skills. While it works, this posts explains how doing all that is an incidental consequence of bad interaction design in coding AI agents.
To succeed, the latter group tacitly creates tons of scaffolding and gain weird new skills. While it works, this posts explains how doing all that is an incidental consequence of bad interaction design in coding AI agents.
The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine
My current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they're given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that i...
ferd.ca
June 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Why do some have a shit time with LLMs for programming while others love it?
To succeed, the latter group tacitly creates tons of scaffolding and gain weird new skills. While it works, this posts explains how doing all that is an incidental consequence of bad interaction design in coding AI agents.
To succeed, the latter group tacitly creates tons of scaffolding and gain weird new skills. While it works, this posts explains how doing all that is an incidental consequence of bad interaction design in coding AI agents.
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"Keep alive what keeps you alive" is what I believe to be the meaning of life. The science to back it up: we are (intelligent) nodes in a self-renewing network. So to eternally renew itself all the nodes have one goal, keep this going. Hence, "keep alive what keeps you alive".
May 22, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Keep alive what keeps you alive" is what I believe to be the meaning of life. The science to back it up: we are (intelligent) nodes in a self-renewing network. So to eternally renew itself all the nodes have one goal, keep this going. Hence, "keep alive what keeps you alive".
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How does human & AI collaboration compares to human to human collaboration? And if AI depends on hardware & electricity, how does this compare to our dependencies? I am writing down some of my ideas: hereby the deepdive on a draft. Curious what you think. on.soundcloud.com/oheedIItcvJ0...
More clarification
I’m a public-health scientist, driven by the same networks that bind us all: cells in our bodies, neurons in our minds and people in our communities.
Networks—from atoms to galaxies—emerge when simple
on.soundcloud.com
May 31, 2025 at 6:48 PM
How does human & AI collaboration compares to human to human collaboration? And if AI depends on hardware & electricity, how does this compare to our dependencies? I am writing down some of my ideas: hereby the deepdive on a draft. Curious what you think. on.soundcloud.com/oheedIItcvJ0...
How does human & AI collaboration compares to human to human collaboration? And if AI depends on hardware & electricity, how does this compare to our dependencies? I am writing down some of my ideas: hereby the deepdive on a draft. Curious what you think. on.soundcloud.com/oheedIItcvJ0...
More clarification
I’m a public-health scientist, driven by the same networks that bind us all: cells in our bodies, neurons in our minds and people in our communities.
Networks—from atoms to galaxies—emerge when simple
on.soundcloud.com
May 31, 2025 at 6:48 PM
How does human & AI collaboration compares to human to human collaboration? And if AI depends on hardware & electricity, how does this compare to our dependencies? I am writing down some of my ideas: hereby the deepdive on a draft. Curious what you think. on.soundcloud.com/oheedIItcvJ0...
Network dynamics at work. I believe this is a very important paper to understand conceptually. As the authors use very simple rules for each agent/node - yet more complex patterns emerge. My prediction is that the social norms in future version of this work will converge to the same as ours.
AI language models develop social norms like groups of people @Nature.com
AI language models develop social norms like groups of people
Nature, Published online: 15 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01500-6When LLMs are grouped together, they exhibit similar characteristics to human societies.
dlvr.it
May 16, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Network dynamics at work. I believe this is a very important paper to understand conceptually. As the authors use very simple rules for each agent/node - yet more complex patterns emerge. My prediction is that the social norms in future version of this work will converge to the same as ours.
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So perhaps we still can collaborate: we identified three existential threats: 1 billionaires and the concentration of wealth due to inappropriate tax. 2. Climate change. 3. Wrong embedding of AI in society.
May 6, 2025 at 5:22 AM
So perhaps we still can collaborate: we identified three existential threats: 1 billionaires and the concentration of wealth due to inappropriate tax. 2. Climate change. 3. Wrong embedding of AI in society.
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Study in Nature: “Across 30 out of 32 evaluation axes from the specialist physician perspective & 25 out of 26 evaluation axes from the patient-actor perspective, AMIE [Google Medical LLM] was rated superior to PCPs [primary care docs] while being non-inferior on the rest.”
(& AIME is an older LLM)
(& AIME is an older LLM)
May 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Study in Nature: “Across 30 out of 32 evaluation axes from the specialist physician perspective & 25 out of 26 evaluation axes from the patient-actor perspective, AMIE [Google Medical LLM] was rated superior to PCPs [primary care docs] while being non-inferior on the rest.”
(& AIME is an older LLM)
(& AIME is an older LLM)
Hope is a combination of a desire for a positive outcome plus a sense of probability. To make a global peaceful collaboration more probable please invest some time in SCAP. A Sustainable Collaboration and Alignment Protocol. albertjanvanhoek.github.io/Evolution-by...
Appendix - Evolution by Emergence
albertjanvanhoek.github.io
May 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Hope is a combination of a desire for a positive outcome plus a sense of probability. To make a global peaceful collaboration more probable please invest some time in SCAP. A Sustainable Collaboration and Alignment Protocol. albertjanvanhoek.github.io/Evolution-by...
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Whahahahaha 😂😂😂😂😂
Welkom op het Binnenhof, de Flodder editie
Leuk gedaan! (Blijf kijken tot het einde 😉)
Welkom op het Binnenhof, de Flodder editie
Leuk gedaan! (Blijf kijken tot het einde 😉)
March 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Whahahahaha 😂😂😂😂😂
Welkom op het Binnenhof, de Flodder editie
Leuk gedaan! (Blijf kijken tot het einde 😉)
Welkom op het Binnenhof, de Flodder editie
Leuk gedaan! (Blijf kijken tot het einde 😉)
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Some helpful tracked changes on a couple of webpage captures here too.
These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
www.nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Some helpful tracked changes on a couple of webpage captures here too.
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Trump & Musk are destroying the government, democracy, planet, international trade, science, public health, social security, taxation. Etc. Stop listening, start thinking, and act! March for your life!
March 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Trump & Musk are destroying the government, democracy, planet, international trade, science, public health, social security, taxation. Etc. Stop listening, start thinking, and act! March for your life!
Trump & Musk are destroying the government, democracy, planet, international trade, science, public health, social security, taxation. Etc. Stop listening, start thinking, and act! March for your life!
March 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Trump & Musk are destroying the government, democracy, planet, international trade, science, public health, social security, taxation. Etc. Stop listening, start thinking, and act! March for your life!
I just laughed out loud about the latest actions of this duo Trump and Musk. It is such a duo. A rocket scientist who made his billions on climate tech and this conman who creates myths and beliefs in them himselves. And there is us. Voting for the conman, or believing in science and climate change
March 4, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I just laughed out loud about the latest actions of this duo Trump and Musk. It is such a duo. A rocket scientist who made his billions on climate tech and this conman who creates myths and beliefs in them himselves. And there is us. Voting for the conman, or believing in science and climate change
Could you help me formulate a theory of unity? A framework for perpetual world peace. It should be a theory of which all, or aspects can be tested in simulation or empirical studies. The theory of unity can than serve as a blueprint for societies, communities, but also individuals.
March 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Could you help me formulate a theory of unity? A framework for perpetual world peace. It should be a theory of which all, or aspects can be tested in simulation or empirical studies. The theory of unity can than serve as a blueprint for societies, communities, but also individuals.
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Eye opening speech by Jeffrey Sachs. Can't recommend it strongly enough to anybody who would like to understand the geopolitical situation around the Ukraine war, Europe and the US. m.youtube.com/watch?v=hA9q...
Jeffrey Sachs Roaring Ukraine Speech At EU Parliament; Blasts U.S., Says 'Not Putin's Puppet'
YouTube video by Times Of India
m.youtube.com
March 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Eye opening speech by Jeffrey Sachs. Can't recommend it strongly enough to anybody who would like to understand the geopolitical situation around the Ukraine war, Europe and the US. m.youtube.com/watch?v=hA9q...