Waar een enkele straat de geschiedenis van een tijdperk kan vertellen, doet een school dat misschien nog veel meer.
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Het is te hopen dat lokale politici bij toekomstige stadsplanning niet alleen nadenken over ‘mooi’ of ‘lelijk’, maar ook over veilig voor iedereen. De lokale overheid gaat immers over de openbare ruimte, over alles dat de burger tegenkomt zodra hij of zij de eigen voordeur verlaat.
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Het meest opvallende advies om tot een meer ontspannen samenleving te komen, vond columnist Stine Jensen het pleidooi voor meer ‘lummelen’ en ‘lege tijd.’ Want wanneer ben je eigenlijk niets aan het doen? Moeten we daarvoor naar Oosterse wijsheden kijken?
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Haven't seen this before. Credits of film from major Hollywood studio beg AI companies to pretty please not train on it: 
Eponysterically, the movie was "Caught Stealing (2025)".
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AI has run out of training data, according to Neema Raphael, Goldman Sachs' chief data officer and head of data engineering. "We've already run out of data," Raphael said on the bank's podcast. He said this shortage is already shaping how developers build new AI systems. China's DeepSeek may have kept costs down by training on outputs from existing models instead of fresh data. The web has been tapped out.
Developers have been using synthetic data -- machine-generated material that offers unlimited supply but carries quality risks. Raphael said he doesn't think the lack of fresh data will be a massive constraint. "From an enterprise perspective, I think there's still a lot of juice I'd say to be squeezed in that," he said. Proprietary datasets held by corporations could make AI tools far more valuable. The challenge is "understanding the data, understanding the business context of the data, and then being able to normalize it."
Developers have been using synthetic data -- machine-generated material that offers unlimited supply but carries quality risks. Raphael said he doesn't think the lack of fresh data will be a massive constraint. "From an enterprise perspective, I think there's still a lot of juice I'd say to be squeezed in that," he said. Proprietary datasets held by corporations could make AI tools far more valuable. The challenge is "understanding the data, understanding the business context of the data, and then being able to normalize it."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted on January 15, 2022. The pyroclastic flow severed both of Tonga's underwater internet cables. The eruption cut sixty-five miles from the domestic cable and fifty-five miles from the international link to Fiji. Tonga lost all internet access. The cables sit on the ocean floor and carry 95% of the world's international internet traffic.
The Guardian has a long read on what happened in the aftermath. A.T.M.s (cash machines) stopped working because banks could not verify account balances. Businesses could not file export paperwork. Foreign remittances made up 44% of the country's G.D.P. The government found old satellite phones. Three or four days later, officials restored a hundred and twenty megabytes per second of bandwidth for essential work. A month after the eruption, SpaceX donated fifty Starlink terminals. SubCom's repair ship Reliance took five weeks to restore the international cable. Vava'u did not get broadband back until August, 2023. Another earthquake in the summer of 2024 severed the domestic cable again.
The Guardian has a long read on what happened in the aftermath. A.T.M.s (cash machines) stopped working because banks could not verify account balances. Businesses could not file export paperwork. Foreign remittances made up 44% of the country's G.D.P. The government found old satellite phones. Three or four days later, officials restored a hundred and twenty megabytes per second of bandwidth for essential work. A month after the eruption, SpaceX donated fifty Starlink terminals. SubCom's repair ship Reliance took five weeks to restore the international cable. Vava'u did not get broadband back until August, 2023. Another earthquake in the summer of 2024 severed the domestic cable again.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Feyenoord heeft ook de tweede wedstrijd in de Europa League niet winnend afgesloten. In de eigen Kuip werd een intense en kansrijke wedstrijd van de Rotterdammers met 0-2 verloren van Aston Villa. In Feyenoord: De Verlenging wordt het duel besproken door Dennis Kranenburg, Dennis van Eersel en Bart Nolles.
Feyenoord heeft ook de tweede wedstrijd in de Europa League niet winnend afgesloten. In de eigen Kuip werd een intense en kansrijke wedstrijd van de Rotterdammers met 0-2 verloren van Aston Villa. In Feyenoord: De Verlenging wordt het duel besproken door Dennis Kranenburg, Dennis van Eersel en Bart Nolles.