Jurgen Van Gael 🇧🇪 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

Tech, Machine Learning in Cambridge, UK (originally from Leuven, BE)

Engineering @ Stripe, ex-Meta/Google/Microsoft Research

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Yes please: https://t.co/rsFQ9yV7yI And sooner rather than later ❤️🇪🇺

[Jurgen Van Gael 🇧🇪 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @jvangael]

@inflammateomnia Without any doubt: https://t.co/zpeCSyeGkz

[David Singleton @dps]

Stripe is opening an office in Bucharest, Romania and we're hiring engineers!

If you're interested, apply now: https://t.co/qS1NsIoZb5.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Mark Carney, "When Brexiters tried to create Singapore-on-the-Thames, the Truss government instead delivered Argentina-on-the-Channel."

Calm, measured, enlightening. This speech by @MarkJCarney at the Global Progress Action Summit is a must watch #GlobalProgressAction23 👏

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@darrenemerson77 @Eurotunnel About to head to the terminal - are you still stuck?

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@ThomasVanRiet2 Is al een tijdje aan het veranderen in de US https://t.co/GjN2uHQVRd

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So exciting. Bill Gates writes about visiting Kemmerer, Wyoming, the future site of the fourth-generation Natrium nuclear power plant being designed by TerraPower. https://t.co/FR6VGy5dxH via @billgates

[Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife]

Amsterdam is currently removing 1,500 on-street car parking spaces per year; a phenomenal public realm improvement enabled by decades of effective mobility policy.

Ask not what your city can do to get more people cycling—but what getting more people cycling can do for your city.

[Cambridge Past, Present & Future @CambridgePPF]

A week today, on 9 Feb we will present a petition to the GCP asking them to build a new busroad next to the A1307 instead of across the Gog Magog hills.
If more of us sign, we can’t be ignored!

Please sign and share with others. https://t.co/MVk21MiEoj

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

What if every city had “Bike Buses” for kids going to school & daycare? What if safe, protected bike infrastructure made them easy? From Nijmegen NL, a #BikeBus developed in partnership with an after-school childcare. HT to great folks at @Cycling_Embassy

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The Brexit effect: how leaving the EU hit the UK | FT Film https://t.co/Icy8Df1Gi5 via @YouTube

[Alex Beckett 🔶 @alexbeckett]

And it's live. Probably the biggest consultation we've ever had. https://t.co/hZdqkQFS4A

[Tom Rogers @RogersHistory]

Very cool to show students how borders have changed over time… @TMHistoryIcons

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@fhuszar @iskorna Amazing initiative Ferenc!

[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

This is madness. UK companies will still have to abide by GDPR if they want any online business in the European Union (as other non-EU companies already do). So UK divergence will simply mean UK double costs.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Physics to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger.

[Alex Beckett 🔶 @alexbeckett]

Why the hell would you introduce a charge to drive in Cambridge? A thread 🧵....

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

Emmanuel Macron: “The United Kingdom is a friendly nation, regardless of its leaders, sometimes in spite of its leaders”.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

This is Brexit

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In volle energiecrisis twee kernreactoren sluiten? Een prachtig cadeau aan Poetin deze winter https://t.co/slacLpBhav via @mboudry