Daniel

🏠 Dutch | AI to serve mankind | OrbisNeo | Life is a journey, enjoy the ride | @orbis_neo

[Daniel @danielfokker]

@BrianRoemmele This is Jan Liebermann, 19 years old! Link to his website: https://t.co/hvlRzR0umR

[Daniel @danielfokker]

@WR4NYGov @ZubyMusic I like following your journey a bit! But also a bit confused: what about the new wife in Thailand and the statement that you’re single?

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

A rocket landing by a rising sun.

This day forward we walk a bit stronger knowing we can achieve what was thought to be unachievable and made possible the impossible.

Such gratitude for everyone at SpaceX and @elonmusk.

(source video @Cosmo_556, production @BrianRoemmele)

[Daniel @danielfokker]

@alojoh @WR4NYGov You mean the famous Vietnamese egg coffee?

[Daniel @danielfokker]

@RSvoboda432 @BrianRoemmele Yes

[Daniel @danielfokker]

My great uncle, Prof. Adriaan Daniel Fokker, actually worked on the 31-tone system in the 1950s. He composed music specifically for this tuning and even designed the Fokker organ, which is now housed at the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ in Amsterdam.

It's amazing how this microtonal system expands musical possibilities beyond the limitations of the 12-tone scale.
https://t.co/tyuszS50N1

[Daniel @danielfokker]

Actually, the 12-tone system we use today is called 'octave' because it divides the scale into 12 equal parts, but we typically reference 8 notes in the major scale (like do-re-mi).

It's also worth noting that in the 1600s, Christiaan Huygens, a Dutch scientist, developed a 31-tone system. His system allowed for all possible intervals to be in tune, something that's not possible with the modern 12-tone system. Huygens' work explored a fascinating alternative to the way we think about musical tuning!

[Daniel @danielfokker]

@farzyness I’ve followed Jacob since his YouTube harmonization videos, saw him play live in 2019 in Utrecht / The Netherlands with the Dutch Metropole Orkest before he got world famous. Incredibly talented indeed!

[Daniel @danielfokker]

Helemaal eens, salderen is achterhaald! Maar als je als overheid toch wil subsidiëren, zou ik dat doen aan batterij opslag. Laat particulieren, bedrijven en nutsbedrijven maar flink investeren in opslag van elektriciteit, dat gaat echt helpen om die ongebruikte zon en windcapaciteit te benutten en zo nog veel meer groene ‘gratis’ energie te genereren.

[Daniel @danielfokker]

@iCulture @BenjaminRK @ics Eindelijk! Drie jaar nadat ING hun Mastercard creditcard in NL via Apple Pay beschikbaar maakte, hebben @ICS en @ANWB het voor elkaar gebokst! Apple Pay nu ook voor diverse ICS Visa credit kaarten beschikbaar!

[Daniel @danielfokker]

@iCulture @BenjaminRK Waar blijft @ICS?

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

New YouTube video: 1hr general-audience introduction to Large Language Models
https://t.co/Bl4WNuNyFJ

Based on a 30min talk I gave recently; It tries to be non-technical intro, covers mental models for LLM inference, training, finetuning, the emerging LLM OS and LLM Security.

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

10 concepts that explain the modern world

1. Parkinson’s Law: Companies become bigger and worse over time. Clerks manufacture work for each other as overall capacity dips. When British Navy ships went down from 68 to 20, officials increased by 78%.

2. Chesterton Fence: If you don’t know what an old custom does, don’t touch it. It may be holding back problems you’re completely unaware of. You’ve not seen the wolves yet because of the very fence you’re about to demolish.

3. The Medici Effect: Sculptors, painters, and architects converged in Florence as the Medicis were funding the artists. Their proximity led to a fertile dialogue which, in turn, led to the Renaissance. The internet will amplify this cross-pollination of ideas.

4. The Centipede's Dilemma: Ask a centipede which one of its hundred legs moves the fastest and it forgets how to move. Reflecting on what we normally do without thought ironically worsens performance. A culture of endless self-reflection, therapy, and navel gazing is eroding important life skills.

5. Tyranny of small decisions: Individuals make small decisions to maximize convenience but this leads to massive social failure. We nod along to contagious ideas like “gender is fluid” because resisting them is too much work - till kids start getting transgender surgery. The slippery slope is not a fallacy but a fundamental reality.

6. The Zebra Effect explains why people don’t want to stand out. Zebras are hard to individually study as it's nearly impossible to track one of them for long (lost in the striped chaos). So scientists once put a big red dot on one zebra so he could be tracked & studied. Lions zeroed in on him and hunted him with ease. Getting lost among others is a survival mechanism. Hence the human desire to conform.

7. Why the ruler can’t rule: The executive head can’t implement his ideas on ground because the bureaucrats are closer to it, and have an agenda of their own. The Tzar of Russia had to deal with the Deep State too. Nicholas II: “I never ruled Russia. 10,000 clerks ruled Russia.”

8. Gall's law: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. Only fools and modern technocrats try to create complex systems from scratch.

9. Minimal Self Hypothesis: Narcissism is a “strategic retreat” into the safety of one’s own self. When the future looks random, inexplicable, and informationally overwhelming, people enter survival mode. The self becomes “minimal” to reduce its surface area to pain. People today are giving up on commitment of all sorts to conserve energy for vague and upcoming disasters.

10. Tetris Syndrome: The world will eventually start looking like Tetris blocks if you play the game too much. What we do most often becomes the metaphor through which we look at the world. Takeaway: Most people today are addicted to their 2D phones - and this will hurt the general aptitude for dealing with the 3D world.

[Years Progress @YearsProgress]

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[Voor Positiviteit @4positiviteit]

Soms is stoppen met je negatieve gedachten het beste wat je kunt doen. Niet langer fantaseren over wat er mis kan gaan, maar diep ademhalen, je aandacht verleggen en vertrouwen dat het uiteindelijk wel goed komt.

[Daniel @danielfokker]

@KLM DM heb ik gestuurd met alle info.

[Daniel @danielfokker]

@KLM probeer op allerlei manieren een vlucht om te boeken, maar zonder succes, wijzigen vlucht lijkt niet meer te functioneren, en betaling blijft hangen. Bellen / WhatsApp geeft geen gehoor.

[Daniel @danielfokker]

@ago_mw @NLinSF It looks like this man is a BOA (special investigations officer) on a low-speed (<25kmh) scooter, and helmets are not mandatory for low-speed bikes & motor scooters (not yet, will become mandatory as of July 2022).

[Daniel @danielfokker]

@Bright Ook inmiddels mijn uitnodiging van Starlink ontvangen om een order te plaatsen. Maar aangezien ik al zowel kabel en glasvezel heb liggen naar mijn huis, toch niet echt relevant voor mij :-) Wel benieuwd of Starlink ook 4G/5G mobiele/cell coverage zou gaan toevoegen!

[Daniel @danielfokker]

@elonmusk Will Starlink add 4G/5G cell phone coverage to their satellites? Or is this already integrated in the hardware?

[Daniel @danielfokker]

@Rijkswaterstaat Dank voor je antwoord!