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Met de dure brandstofprijzen, rijden er geregeld mensen even naar Belgie om te tanken. Maar in een woning in Schiedam bleken die tripjes woensdagmiddag een beetje uit de hand te zijn gelopen. De politie nam in de Maasstraat namelijk ruim 100 liter benzine in beslag.

Met de dure brandstofprijzen, rijden er geregeld mensen even naar Belgie om te tanken. Maar in een woning in Schiedam bleken die tripjes woensdagmiddag een beetje uit de hand te zijn gelopen. De politie nam in de Maasstraat namelijk ruim 100 liter benzine in beslag.

What comes next after a moment when companies sell existential risk but pursue public funding and DIY regulation, even as software developers question their life choices? Peter Norvig, distinguished education fellow at Stanford HAI and former Google research director, used his opening keynote at The AI Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday to speculate on the answer. Almost certainly, it's another AI conference – on Thursday in fact – given the two or three dozen of them that have bubbled up in San Francisco this year or are scheduled in the remaining three months. To get to the present, he took a detour through the past. He acknowledged the milestones of AlexNet and ImageNet in 2012, the Transformer architecture for machine learning in 2017, the debut of ChatGPT in 2022, and the emergence of reasoning and coding agents in 2024. He also touched on the sudden competency of AI models for math, noting that two years ago, GPT-4 couldn't count the number of "r"s in "strawberry." Yet as of August this year, he observed, 25 percent of math preprint papers on arXiv acknowledged AI assistance. Norvig went on to cite Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds' changing attitude toward AI. "Six months ago he was a skeptic, he became a cautious adopter, and now he's a dogmatic advocate," said Norvig. So what now? Norvig says the process of software engineering needs to change. The tech industry has changed many times before, he said, pointing to transitions from plugging wires into mainframes, to assembly language, to higher level programming languages. "At every step you have to change the way you think about what software engineering is," he said. And now we're going to have to change it all again. How do we do specifications and documentation? How do we capture this theory of the evolving program that we're not capturing well now?" To illustrate that point, Norvig recounted some of his recent work. "I did an embarrassing thing the other day, right? So I'm using Codex, [and I] write some stuff that seems to work," he said. He told Codex to send the pull request for review, and his colleague asked why he was checking in 6,000 temp files. "And I said, 'Well, I didn't notice that,'" Norvig explained. "And sure enough, I had written 6,000 temporary files, and Codex thought that it wanted to check those in. So I told [Codex], 'No, don't check them in, just delete them.' At first I thought, shame on me. I should have looked before I asked for a code review on that. And I just skipped that step of looking. Maybe I should be doing that." Then, said Norvig, he thought that the GPT model should have known that he didn't want to save 6,000 temporary files, so as not to burden the reviewer. And then he mused that if you have enough storage and memory, maybe it would be useful to have those files to have a more thorough history of how the codebase changed. "So the expectations of what's good practice and how that's going to change, that's all going to be different," he said. And that's just the start. "We gotta get the security and privacy and data pipelines and supply chains, those are all gonna be different in how they interact with each other," he said. "This idea of continuous integration and recursive self-improvement. How much do we let the systems go off on their own and how are we monitoring them?" Judging by the steady drip of incidents where AI models have hacked into third-party websites, discovered only after someone scrutinized log files, we're not monitoring them. So yeah, there's work to be done. ®

Psychedelische doom stoner metal. Wie houdt er nou niet van, van psychedelische doom stoner metal? IEDEREEN HOUDT VAN PSYCHEDELISCHE DOOM STONER METAL, TOCH?!?!!? Ahem, dus, eh, lekkere luistermuziek van REZN, uit Chicago. Bijkomende bonus van dit soort bands is dat het artwork op de (tegenwoordig meestal virtuele) albumhoes ook erg vet is. Dit is hun laatste album, Cycles in the Infinite Dream.

Amsterdam wordt steeds meer een Linnaeushof voor volwassenen, een voorstel van D66, bekend van internet: "D66 wil met het voorstel drugsverslaafden geldbedragen aanbieden wanneer zij bijvoorbeeld een week geen drugs hebben gebruikt, in behandeling gaan, of een tijd geen overlast hebben veroorzaakt. De precieze uitwerking van 'goed gedrag' en hoe hoog de geldbedragen moeten zijn, laat de partij over aan verslavingsprofessionals, zorgverzekeraars en maatschappelijke opvang." Je zou zeggen, drugs en geld, geen goeie combi. Desalwelteplus: jawel. Een alternatieve kop was: D66 berooft verslaafden van hun laatste stukje waardigheid.

Een nieuw wapen in de strijd tegen opstraatliggendejunks en opstraatslapers: infantilisering. Je plaatselijke crackjunk wordt straks behandeld als een opstandige klasgenoot. Als pester die nu écht moet worden geconfronteerd met zijn gedrag. Als kleuter die na lang tegenstribbelen eindelijk overstag gaat en het groen uitgeslagen potje Olvarit naar binnen werkt. Een sticker, daverend applaus en meer nietsige retoriek als wapen tegen crack. Een hoog opgezet stemmetje, een welgemeende diepe frons en meewarig knikje. 'Goed hoor, we zijn trots op je'. Het parallelle universum waar deze mensen wonen, is een wereld waarin realiteitszin ook echt iets is waar je zin in kunt hebben. Waar je wakker wordt en bedenkt: misschien moet ik eens geld gooien naar het probleem. Het zal je gebeuren. Een leven vol ellende, dakloos en verslaafd. Gebruik je een dag of 5 geen crack omdat je geen geld hebt, komt het malse weekdier Rob Hofland aanwandelen met een briefje van 10. 'Koop er maar wat leuks van, knul'.

Niet-actieve kleptomanen worden beloond met bivakmuts, passieve pyromanen krijgen literflessen benzine en tijdelijk ongeile aanranders krijgen een week baantjes zwemmen in Groningen cadeau.

FBI accuses Chloe Freeman of federal misdemeanor in case of undocumented Mexican migrant arrested in Michigan

The federal government is charging a Michigan nurse accused of illegally helping an undocumented immigrant, who was being treated in a hospital, escape from immigration officials, court records unsealed this week show.

An FBI agent’s declaration submitted in a federal court accuses Chloe Renae Freeman, 33, of “instigating or assisting escape”, a federal misdemeanor, by helping a patient leave an Ann Arbor hospital while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in May. The patient, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, had been arrested about two hours earlier by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) border patrol agents.

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• Premier League executives pushing for severe punishment

• City maintain they are ‘innocent of the accusations’

The Premier League will face pressure from Manchester City’s rivals to push for a sanction that will result in a prolonged absence from the top flight after the club were found guilty of more than 100 charges of financial rule-breaking.

Executives at a number of Premier League clubs have told the Guardian that a points deduction that would relegate City to the Championship for a single season would be insufficient given the scale of what an independent commission described as the club’s “disguised funding scheme” and “sham commercial deals”, which enabled them to artificially inflate their income by £900m between 2009 and 2018.

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I love 2005’s Pride and Prejudice, starring Keira Knightly & Matthew Macfadyen and directed by Joe Wright. So I really enjoyed Danny Boyd’s video essay about the great cinematography in the film.

Pride & Prejudice isn’t a movie I’ve exactly seen a 100 times in my life. And believe me, I like a good romcom. But when I finally sat myself down, put on the 4K disc, and paid attention, I could not believe the level of craft on display here. The cinematography of this movie is insane. Some of the closest to my own personal tastes as I’ve ever found. So today, I want to talk about how director Joe Wright created some of the best extended tracking shots, ones, long takes, that I’ve ever seen.

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Ineens is hij overal: de AI-poster. Zelfs ChatGPT vindt zijn eigen ontwerpstijl wat uitbundig.