Drie bewindslieden wilden de Tweede Kamer woensdagavond geen enkel inzicht geven in het mestbeleid voor de komende vier jaar. En ook niet over hun meningsverschillen.
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For a personal project, we decided to reinterpret the twelve animals of the lunar calendar. This is a reinterpretation project and a creative exercise in style: each animal was imagined as a giant toy, designed with metal frames, moving parts, and handcrafted details. Workshops came alive with artisans assembling intricate mechanisms and carefully adding color to bring each character to life.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google began its transition to Gemini 3 a few weeks ago with the launch of the Pro model, and the arrival of Gemini 3 Flash kicks it into high gear. The new, faster Gemini 3 model is coming to the Gemini app and search, and developers will be able to access it immediately via the Gemini API, Vertex AI, AI Studio, and Antigravity. Google's bigger gen AI model is also picking up steam, with both Gemini 3 Pro and its image component (Nano Banana Pro) expanding in search.
This may come as a shock, but Google says Gemini 3 Flash is faster and more capable than its previous base model. As usual, Google has a raft of benchmark numbers that show modest improvements for the new model. It bests the old 2.5 Flash in basic academic and reasoning tests like GPQA Diamond and MMMU Pro (where it even beats 3 Pro). It gets a larger boost in Humanity's Last Exam (HLE), which tests advanced domain-specific knowledge. Gemini 3 Flash has tripled the old models' score in HLE, landing at 33.7 percent without tool use. That's just a few points behind the Gemini 3 Pro model. Gemini 3 Flash has been been significantly improved in terms of factual accuracy, scoring 68.7% on Simple QA Verified, which is up from 28.1% in the previous model. It's also designed as a high-efficiency model that's suitable for real-time and high-volume workloads.
According to Google, Gemini 3 Flash is now the default model for AI Mode in Google Search.
This may come as a shock, but Google says Gemini 3 Flash is faster and more capable than its previous base model. As usual, Google has a raft of benchmark numbers that show modest improvements for the new model. It bests the old 2.5 Flash in basic academic and reasoning tests like GPQA Diamond and MMMU Pro (where it even beats 3 Pro). It gets a larger boost in Humanity's Last Exam (HLE), which tests advanced domain-specific knowledge. Gemini 3 Flash has tripled the old models' score in HLE, landing at 33.7 percent without tool use. That's just a few points behind the Gemini 3 Pro model. Gemini 3 Flash has been been significantly improved in terms of factual accuracy, scoring 68.7% on Simple QA Verified, which is up from 28.1% in the previous model. It's also designed as a high-efficiency model that's suitable for real-time and high-volume workloads.
According to Google, Gemini 3 Flash is now the default model for AI Mode in Google Search.
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Rotenberg has been unable to transfer funds to Finnish bank accounts in recent years due to sanctions restrictions, Yle said.
Feyenoord ligt ook uit het bekertoernooi. In De Kuip verloren de Rotterdammers met 3-2 van SC Heerenveen. Feyenoord worstelde zich door het duel heen, kwam twee keer terug van een achterstand, maar kreeg een minuut voor tijd de genadeslag. Feyenoord is nu klaar in Europa en de beker.
AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Bij de pro-Israëlmanifestatie op de Dam zijn woensdagavond vier personen aangehouden, meldt de politie. Ze zijn aangehouden voor het verstoren van de demonstratie en het afsteken van een "rookpot", aldus een woordvoerder. De personen zitten vast.
Ongeveer 2000 mensen waren aanwezig bij de manifestatie. Onder de sprekers waren SGP-leider Chris Stoffer en opperrabbijn Binyomin Jacobs. Een meterslange Israëlische vlag werd uitgerold, er werd gezongen en een chanoekakaars werd aangestoken.
Op een paar opstootjes na is de manifestatie rustig verlopen. Er was veel politie aanwezig op de Dam.
Arthur Ganson is a kinetic sculptor who builds “Rube Goldberg machines with existential themes”. One of his works is called Machine with Concrete, which demonstrates the magic of gear ratios
According to a piece in Make, the input shaft spins at 200 rpm, which is reduced by gearing down to 1 revolution every 2 trillion years by the time you reach the gear on the end…which is so slow that even embedding the final gear in concrete doesn’t make any difference to the machine’s operation. (via interconnected)
[This is a vintage post originally from Feb 2015.]
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