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Tech leader & builder, Co-founder of @verifeyemedia, VP Engineering https://t.co/NcS7x89exA, organiser Hackers & Founders Amsterdam, occasional DJ, maker of food and beer.

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Great to see the innovation we did at @verifeyemedia that was enabled by a @GoogleNewsInit grant covered in the @FT

How can quality journalism thrive in the digital age? See how 4 #DNIFund recipients are using technology to help shape the future of news in our @GoogleNewsInit partnership with the #FT goo.gl/b8iSFm

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Interesting discourse on the present day of programming in the era of AI chat bots. All programmers can now become 10x coders for coding output but the best will still need to be able to reason with the machine. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…


Star Trek the Next Generation built a smart watch.

Humane built an incredibly cool piece of hardware. I have no desire to spend $700 and $28/month on one



Interesting to see Signal has layered in a Post-Quantum Cryptography algorithm on top of its current public key system. signal.org/blog/pqxdh/


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I've spent the last few months interviewing >60 experts in law, economics, AI, alignment, etc, on the impacts of AI, and safety interventions. Today I'm publishing my first article, showing regulation designed to increase AI safety may backfire badly! fast.ai/posts/2023-11-…


Interesting conversation on the limits of the Turing test with @GaryMarcus and John Lanchester on David Runciman’s new podcast. overcast.fm/+BAwtRwyROQ


Scrolling through Twitter to see what the AIs are saying today.


From over a decade of organizing and hosting talks for the Hackers & Founders meetup here in Amsterdam this has been my experience as well. The best of the talks are wrapped in a personal story.

One analysis of 500 of the most popular TED Talks of all time found that stories made up 65%, 25% went to logos (reason) and 10% went to ethos (character) In other words, the winning formula for a TED talk is to wrap the big idea in a story hbr.org/2019/07/the-ar…



Restautant ratings have been broken for a long time already. Eventually they will all have the same average rating. nytimes.com/2022/07/11/din…


Interesting research proposing that there were 64 key players involved in the first two years of Bitcoin mining. nytimes.com/2022/06/06/sci…


Beautiful article and photos of fading rural Japan. Reminds me of places I like in rural France. nytimes.com/2022/04/25/tra…


History of little Tokyo in NYC. I’m always amazed to see how quickly the landscape in Manhattan can change. nytimes.com/2022/04/08/nyr…


Many brave people opened new restaurants during the pandemic including seasoned restaurateur Russel Norman. This insightful long read gives glimpses of the recent and ongoing challenges and mentions many of the of the great from the London restaurant scene theguardian.com/food/2022/feb/…


Interesting to see the US wine industry taking note of changing consumer behavior. Could this be the end of industrial agricultures dominance? We are certainly seeing signs of that here in Europe with the increasing prevalence of natural wines. nytimes.com/2022/02/07/din…


Nice article on ⁦⁦@bill_buford⁩ ‘s time in Lyon getting deep into professional cooking and French life. The book is very good. Great to hear of another late night home cook, thought it was only me. theguardian.com/food/2020/sep/…


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