Han-Kwang Nienhuys
@hk-nien.bsky.social
Ph.D., physics, engineering, Python, Linux, Netherlands (Utrecht).
AKA hk_nien (X), @hk_nien@mastodon.social . Check out my block list.
AKA hk_nien (X), @hk_nien@mastodon.social . Check out my block list.
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I don't get the love for pick up trucks. In Europe, workers use vans (from sedan size to 15 m³/500 ft³), which will protect the goods from weather and thieves and which have a far lower load floor. Landscapers who move dirty stuff use trailers or occasionally a pick up on a van frame.
December 24, 2024 at 3:08 PM
I don't get the love for pick up trucks. In Europe, workers use vans (from sedan size to 15 m³/500 ft³), which will protect the goods from weather and thieves and which have a far lower load floor. Landscapers who move dirty stuff use trailers or occasionally a pick up on a van frame.
Not Just Bikes discusses Utrecht, Netherlands versus London, Canada. Since 1990, Utrecht became more pro transit, bikes, pedestrians. The Canadian town kept catering for cars.
youtu.be/4uqbsueNvag?...
youtu.be/4uqbsueNvag?...
These Two Cities Used to be the Same
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
youtu.be
December 23, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Not Just Bikes discusses Utrecht, Netherlands versus London, Canada. Since 1990, Utrecht became more pro transit, bikes, pedestrians. The Canadian town kept catering for cars.
youtu.be/4uqbsueNvag?...
youtu.be/4uqbsueNvag?...
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TL;DR: A coupon code gives you a price reduction. The vlogger/blogger who pays an affiliate link gets a commission. The Honey browser plugin redirects the commission to Honey while lying to you that there are no coupon codes available. Truly evil.
December 23, 2024 at 10:48 AM
TL;DR: A coupon code gives you a price reduction. The vlogger/blogger who pays an affiliate link gets a commission. The Honey browser plugin redirects the commission to Honey while lying to you that there are no coupon codes available. Truly evil.
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This video on Honey is absolutely wild and worth a watch
Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam
YouTube video by MegaLag
youtu.be
December 23, 2024 at 5:40 AM
This video on Honey is absolutely wild and worth a watch
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Dedicated bus lanes make public transit more attractive, leading to some car drivers taking the bus instead and thereby reducing load on car lanes. Won't happen if buses are stuck in the same traffic jam. Not Just Bikes mentions it (mostly in the first minutes): youtu.be/d8RRE2rDw4k?...
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The Best Country in the World for Drivers
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
youtu.be
December 22, 2024 at 11:39 AM
Dedicated bus lanes make public transit more attractive, leading to some car drivers taking the bus instead and thereby reducing load on car lanes. Won't happen if buses are stuck in the same traffic jam. Not Just Bikes mentions it (mostly in the first minutes): youtu.be/d8RRE2rDw4k?...
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Negar Kamali and the rest of the team at Northwestern university (from that AI image quiz) made an excellent guide teaching how to recognize AI images.
arxiv.org/abs/2406.08651
arxiv.org/abs/2406.08651
How to Distinguish AI-Generated Images from Authentic Photographs
The high level of photorealism in state-of-the-art diffusion models like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and Firefly makes it difficult for untrained humans to distinguish between real photographs and A...
arxiv.org
December 21, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Negar Kamali and the rest of the team at Northwestern university (from that AI image quiz) made an excellent guide teaching how to recognize AI images.
arxiv.org/abs/2406.08651
arxiv.org/abs/2406.08651
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Verhip. Totaal gemist dat in Utrecht de Uithoflijn een week geleden alweer z'n vijfde verjaardag vierde. Een niet onomstreden tramlijn die nogal wat moeilijkheden gekend heeft, maar nu toch een onmisbare verbinding naar de Uithof... euh, Utrecht Science Park is. Een klein draadje.
December 20, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Verhip. Totaal gemist dat in Utrecht de Uithoflijn een week geleden alweer z'n vijfde verjaardag vierde. Een niet onomstreden tramlijn die nogal wat moeilijkheden gekend heeft, maar nu toch een onmisbare verbinding naar de Uithof... euh, Utrecht Science Park is. Een klein draadje.
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Voor de inboedelverzekering is de dagwaarde van je spullen NUL binnen 3-10 jaar na nieuwkoop. Grote kans dat je wordt afgescheept met een fooi als je huis afbrandt.
December 21, 2024 at 8:01 AM
Voor de inboedelverzekering is de dagwaarde van je spullen NUL binnen 3-10 jaar na nieuwkoop. Grote kans dat je wordt afgescheept met een fooi als je huis afbrandt.
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The Kellogg Northwestern AI image quiz has been updated. New (harder) images have been added, as well as timed challenges (classify an image in 5 or 20 seconds). Can you beat my 87% correct score? detectfakes.kellogg.northwestern.edu
December 20, 2024 at 8:56 AM
The Kellogg Northwestern AI image quiz has been updated. New (harder) images have been added, as well as timed challenges (classify an image in 5 or 20 seconds). Can you beat my 87% correct score? detectfakes.kellogg.northwestern.edu
The Kellogg Northwestern AI image quiz has been updated. New (harder) images have been added, as well as timed challenges (classify an image in 5 or 20 seconds). Can you beat my 87% correct score? detectfakes.kellogg.northwestern.edu
December 20, 2024 at 8:56 AM
The Kellogg Northwestern AI image quiz has been updated. New (harder) images have been added, as well as timed challenges (classify an image in 5 or 20 seconds). Can you beat my 87% correct score? detectfakes.kellogg.northwestern.edu
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Terugtrekken van wetenschappelijk artikel betekent dat er fundamentele & ethische fouten zijn gemaakt.
Dit geldt voor hydroxychloroquine als #COVID19 behandeling. www.science.org/content/arti...
Dit geldt voor hydroxychloroquine als #COVID19 behandeling. www.science.org/content/arti...
Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted
Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds
www.science.org
December 18, 2024 at 7:33 AM
Terugtrekken van wetenschappelijk artikel betekent dat er fundamentele & ethische fouten zijn gemaakt.
Dit geldt voor hydroxychloroquine als #COVID19 behandeling. www.science.org/content/arti...
Dit geldt voor hydroxychloroquine als #COVID19 behandeling. www.science.org/content/arti...
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💥❄️ Fantastic work of SBU: New video of the moment of the explosion of General Kirillov has appeared.
December 17, 2024 at 11:47 AM
💥❄️ Fantastic work of SBU: New video of the moment of the explosion of General Kirillov has appeared.
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Zelf vindt ze dat het heel goed gaat en dat ze uitstekend samenwerkt met haar ambtenaren. Maar mensen die met minister Marjolein Faber (Asiel en Migratie, PVV) werken, schetsen in de NRC een ander beeld: geen woordvoerders, niet te adviseren en solistisch.
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...
Ongrijpbaar voor haar ambtenaren, onbereikbaar voor de buitenwereld: minister Faber opereert ‘volstrekt ongebruikelijk’
Asiel en migratie: Zelf vindt ze dat het heel goed gaat en dat ze uitstekend samenwerkt met haar ambtenaren. Maar mensen die met minister Marjolein Faber (Asiel en Migratie, PVV) werken, schetsen een ...
www.nrc.nl
December 16, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Zelf vindt ze dat het heel goed gaat en dat ze uitstekend samenwerkt met haar ambtenaren. Maar mensen die met minister Marjolein Faber (Asiel en Migratie, PVV) werken, schetsen in de NRC een ander beeld: geen woordvoerders, niet te adviseren en solistisch.
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...
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Zou me niet verbazen als Trump zomertijd per direct afschaft zonder dat de individuele Amerikaanse staten (die daarover gaan) akkoord gaan en zonder bedrijven de tijd te geven om software aan te passen. Kun je daarna de klok van je telefoon 2x per jaar gaan verzetten. 🙄
December 14, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Zou me niet verbazen als Trump zomertijd per direct afschaft zonder dat de individuele Amerikaanse staten (die daarover gaan) akkoord gaan en zonder bedrijven de tijd te geven om software aan te passen. Kun je daarna de klok van je telefoon 2x per jaar gaan verzetten. 🙄
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So, if you missed it, my Substack has gone live now that I'm no longer writing for the Times. First post here. Entirely free for now, although I'll probably have paid posts eventually paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-fraudu...
The Fraudulence of “Waste, Fraud and Abuse”
History repeats itself, the first time as farce, the second as clown show
paulkrugman.substack.com
December 11, 2024 at 5:44 PM
So, if you missed it, my Substack has gone live now that I'm no longer writing for the Times. First post here. Entirely free for now, although I'll probably have paid posts eventually paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-fraudu...
Good video from Not Just Bikes. Summary: conservative province premier Doug Ford pushes to scrap bike lanes in Toronto city, in spite of evidence of the benefits, to distract from his mismanagement of public transit. youtu.be/KgFCQ7jEZxI?...
The World's Dumbest Bike Lane Law Just Passed in Canada
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
youtu.be
December 9, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Good video from Not Just Bikes. Summary: conservative province premier Doug Ford pushes to scrap bike lanes in Toronto city, in spite of evidence of the benefits, to distract from his mismanagement of public transit. youtu.be/KgFCQ7jEZxI?...
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The UnitedHealthcare shooter's backpack color controversy reminds me of something.
December 7, 2024 at 12:11 PM
The UnitedHealthcare shooter's backpack color controversy reminds me of something.
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Bluesky's VP of Trust and Safety Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team joins me on the Impossible Tradeoffs podcast to discuss how he and the company are managing the surge of users since the U.S. election. 🎧 Listen Now! anchorchange.substack.com/p/blueskys-a...
Bluesky's Approach to Trust and Safety
Aaron Rodericks talks through the tradeoffs the decentralized platform is facing with rapid growth
anchorchange.substack.com
December 5, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Bluesky's VP of Trust and Safety Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team joins me on the Impossible Tradeoffs podcast to discuss how he and the company are managing the surge of users since the U.S. election. 🎧 Listen Now! anchorchange.substack.com/p/blueskys-a...
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Be sure to catch the end of this clever NASA "climate spiral" video showing monthly global temperature changes between 1880 and 2022 (°F)
science.nasa.gov/resource/vid... 🧪
science.nasa.gov/resource/vid... 🧪
December 4, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Be sure to catch the end of this clever NASA "climate spiral" video showing monthly global temperature changes between 1880 and 2022 (°F)
science.nasa.gov/resource/vid... 🧪
science.nasa.gov/resource/vid... 🧪
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Actually, only the X account of the European Federation of Journalists itself will become inactive. The 295k Individual journalists and their news organizations will have to make their own decisions. europeanjournalists.org/blog/2024/11...
X-odus: @EFJEUROPE account will be frozen from 20 January 2025
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has decided it will no longer post content on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, from 20 January 2025, ...
europeanjournalists.org
December 3, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Actually, only the X account of the European Federation of Journalists itself will become inactive. The 295k Individual journalists and their news organizations will have to make their own decisions. europeanjournalists.org/blog/2024/11...
Here is a quiz to identify 400 images as AI or not AI. Interesting exercise. It's also for scientific purposes.
detectfakes.kellogg.northwestern.edu
detectfakes.kellogg.northwestern.edu
DeepFakes, Can You Spot Them?
Can you spot the DeepFake? Detect Fakes challenges you to discern AI-manipulated videos from real videos. Can you do better than an algorithm?
detectfakes.kellogg.northwestern.edu
December 1, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Here is a quiz to identify 400 images as AI or not AI. Interesting exercise. It's also for scientific purposes.
detectfakes.kellogg.northwestern.edu
detectfakes.kellogg.northwestern.edu
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It would be better if these ai generated embed a steganographic watermark in the images (not visible to humans but easy to detect). en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital...
It would probably be easy to remove if the algorithm is public, though.
It would probably be easy to remove if the algorithm is public, though.
Digital watermarking - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
November 30, 2024 at 4:41 PM
It would be better if these ai generated embed a steganographic watermark in the images (not visible to humans but easy to detect). en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital...
It would probably be easy to remove if the algorithm is public, though.
It would probably be easy to remove if the algorithm is public, though.
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The "Discover" feed on Bluesky is actually algorithmically driven. I see plenty of posts of people that I don't follow and I actually appreciate that.
November 27, 2024 at 7:19 PM
The "Discover" feed on Bluesky is actually algorithmically driven. I see plenty of posts of people that I don't follow and I actually appreciate that.
Interesting video on Gate All-Around (GAA) #semiconductor technology - possibly enabling more powerful logic chips. Last major technology step was FinFET (2012). Samsung, Intel, TSMC are all working on it.
youtu.be/5RPFfPtgw7g?...
youtu.be/5RPFfPtgw7g?...
The Gate-All-Around Transistor is Coming
YouTube video by Asianometry
youtu.be
November 27, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Interesting video on Gate All-Around (GAA) #semiconductor technology - possibly enabling more powerful logic chips. Last major technology step was FinFET (2012). Samsung, Intel, TSMC are all working on it.
youtu.be/5RPFfPtgw7g?...
youtu.be/5RPFfPtgw7g?...
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For some reason my timeline is filled with pictures of cross stitching craft (both humorous and serious). Is this a trending hobby or just a quirk of 'the algorithm'?
November 27, 2024 at 10:29 AM
For some reason my timeline is filled with pictures of cross stitching craft (both humorous and serious). Is this a trending hobby or just a quirk of 'the algorithm'?