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Erik Jonker
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Civil servant from the Netherlands, fascinated by innovative technologies and how they can improve society. Also interested in geopolitics and international affairs. All opinions expressed are purely personal and do not represent the opinion of my employer or anyone else. #digitalgovernment #innovation #digitaltransformation #AI #technology #tfr tootfinder #ICT #IT #fedi22 #geopolitics #AcICT Signal: erikjonker.09
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Erik Jonker 3 months ago
Trump faces an implosion of credibility with both Netanyahu and Putin not taking him seriously, former allies that really dislike him, Xi outmaneuvering him etc. if you add all the damage he is doing inside the US , it is amazing how destructive the Trump presidency is. #trump
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Erik Jonker 9 months ago
It will be "interesting" to see how the almost trade blockade with China will work out for US companies... #trump #trade #china
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Erik Jonker 9 months ago
That judges in the US are now stopping some things Trump is trying to do temporarily, this not a reason for optimism, they alone can't stop him for sure, he can overwhelm or circumvent them in the end. What is striking is the seemingly total lack of resistance in the executive branche. The lack of massive protests. And in Belgrado 300.000 take to the streets to protest against corruption, Americans where are you... ? #usa #corruption #fascism #serbia #belgrado #trump #politics
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Erik Jonker 10 months ago
Thinking about it, the larger problem is not supporting and defending Ukraine, with full European support they can hold their lines I think, the larger problem is the implosion of the USA, it's alliance with Russia, which can lead to all kind of new conflicts in Europe. #geopolitics #ukraine #usa #russia #eu #europe @geopolitics group
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Erik Jonker 10 months ago
Interesting illustration how you can steer and manipulate an algorithm in an LLM like Grok. The question "Is climate change an urgent threat to the planet", asked to Grok 2 and Grok 3. Musk clearly adapted the model so the answer is more to his liking. #AI #Grok2 #Grok3 #Musk #bias #X #climatechange #manipulation #politics #disinformation #LLM (source: )
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Erik Jonker 10 months ago
Another confirmation whose side Musk is on, also calling Russia leadership "competent leadership" after invading Ukraine, 100.000s of deaths etc is a stretch #musk #russia #lavrov image
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Erik Jonker 10 months ago
The courts are not going to stop Musk / DOGE / Trump breaking down government. Things have to get much worse before there is a chance that they get better I am afraid. The resistance is too limited and not organised enough. What a difference with the 60s/70s for example and the civil rights movement then? What also strikes me is that there is no clear leader in resisting Trump/Musk. #trump #musk #doge #courts #resistance #politics
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Erik Jonker 10 months ago
From a technology perspective things will get messy in Europe, Vance has confirmed the US will go in full attack against our regulations (AI Act, DSA , DMA etc), how will we react, will we compromise or not? Big risks are involved because we are extremely dependent on US tech. The US could "shut us down" if they like...(Cloud, services etc). We should start migrating to EU tech and services ASAP and/or start to build them. #technology #it #ict #eu #aiact #dsa #dma
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Erik Jonker 10 months ago
Trump on Canada: “Canada is just about the lowest payer in NATO in addition to everything else. Canada has really been taking advantage of. If they had to pay just something modestly fair, they wouldn't be able to succeed as a country. That's why I feel they have to become a state.” He is crazy… #canada #trump
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Erik Jonker 10 months ago
Follow the #50501movement hashag for all things about action against Musk and Trump. #USA #politics
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Erik Jonker 1 year ago
The events in Syria also illustrate the importance of moral ,there was almost no fighting or resistance from Assad's forces ,totally demoralized, amazing if you think about their numbers , weapons etc. Also there is no large killing of people until now or looting etc Ofcourse things can change, tense weeks/months ahead. #syria #geopolitics
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Erik Jonker 1 year ago
The difference between how good NotebookLM is and how terrible Gemini Pro sometimes can be, illustrates the importance of everything around models like Gemini,ChatGPT, Claude etc. Supporting algorithms, contextwindows, chain-of-tought, RAG, tuning, grounding, interface etcetera, are just as important for the perfomance of the actual application or service. Therefore the chance of real "AI winter" is small in my view, even if the models themselves don't improve that much #AI #AIwinter
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Erik Jonker 1 year ago
A lot of marketing by OpenAI but I have the feeling they are not improving fast enough. Claude seems still better at text-oriented tasks and Google is quickly catching up. #AI
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Erik Jonker 1 year ago
As they say it themselves, Helsing is a new type of defence and artificial intelligence company. Fascinating and extremely scary at the same time. https://helsing.ai/ #AI #drones #military #defense #Helsing
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Erik Jonker 1 year ago
NotebookLM is super useful if you quickly want to read/comprehend a document in a languange you are totally not familiar with, upload the document in a notebook, you have a summary/overview, can ask questions about it etcetera In my case it did wonders with a russian document but also with a technical book in german. #notebookLM #AI #languages