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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 19h

Today a vulnerabilty in PHP, tomorrow it's something else. People outside of IT do not realise how extremely complex it has become.

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

I love/hate this new Huggingface feature, where you can set the P(doom) of the probability of AI causing an existential catastrophe. I was first skeptical, but as OpenAI published 700 maths papers yesterday, I put my chance at 1%. Because cryptography is math, so breaking cryptography seems next.

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

Dit zijn de ingrediënten van mijn pizza. Reken jij s.v.p. even het BTW % uit? Ik hoor het wel.

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

For the Master Legal Tech i gave a workshop 'AI Assisted Coding'. The students mostly have a legal background with limited knowledge of coding. With help of AI all of them were able to build a website that uses AI to summarize court cases. And that in 30 minutes... #vibecoding #Ai

Screenshot of a web application vibe coded in 30 minutes.

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

Every human knows that a location based on your IP address is mostly wrong. But Claude treated as if it were true. #AGI has not yet been reached. 🙃

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

'real sloppiness' is Claude's eufemism of the day. #Opus #Claude

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

When Claude makes mistakes it was just 'too optimistic'.

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

Here is a screenshot of the ARC-AGI 3 announcement from late March 2026. Francois Chollet is saying that it would take 'at least a year' until ARC AGI 3 was solved. Because it is 'much much harder'. It took OpenAI less than six months to do it. #AGI is coming. arcprize.org/arc-agi/3

Francois Chollet and Sam Altman. Chollet saying that breaking ARC AGI would take at least one year.

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026

But even if I ask for a joke, Claude will not show it's Chain of Thought... 🤷‍♂️ (There are several Anthropic authors... who do not do what they preach)

Claude blocks when you ask it to explain it's Chain of Thought

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026

A paper with so many authors and 'endorsers' like Geoff Hinton and Ilya Sutskever you do not see every day. This seems promising...

screenshot of the abstract of the paper with the endorsers..

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026

Today first class of our Master Applied AI with a (too short) Intro to Computer Vision. After explaining some theory, the students did my new "LEGO way of building CNN's." Full focus on the concepts of a CNN, less worry about the code. Try it yourself: michielbontenbal.github.io/lego-cnn.html

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026

De gasprijs is op dit moment op recordhoogte. Een weinig aantrekkelijk alternatief. Bron: www.ice.com/products/279...

Graph of price of gas on Dutch TTF market over last 2 years. Price is now at it's highest in 2 years.

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026

Gas is at it's highest price in 2 years. Are the empty storages driving up the gas price? source: www.ice.com/products/279...

price of gas on Dutch TTF over the last 2 years. Highest price in 2 years.

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026

Identification of plants and animals is one of the best applications of ComputerVision. I never knew there was a moth that lives on mint plants here in downtown Amsterdam, but here she is: the mint moth. #ai #obsidentify #naturalis

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 13/06/2026

Can confirm Fable 5 is currently unavalable in the Netherlands. Confusing situation indeed.

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026

This is what Claude advised me after programming all morning.

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026

After programming all morning with Claude Fable 5 I asked Claude if I always need Fable. He came up with an *honest* answer... Anthropic should make a feature that chooses the most fitting model based on the prompt.

a screenshot from Claude Code that shows which models I could have used today instead of the most expensive one.

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026

When I use Claude (browser) it sometimes mixes up the references. It shows links from older conversations. Am I the only one or are others experiencing this as well? #claude

a screenshot from Claude (browser) that shows old, irrelevant references from previous conversations

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 09/06/2026

There are four ways of running an #AI model. They all have pro's and cons. And with the weekly arrival of new models, changes in pricing & policies and the rise of agents this is a field to watch.

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 08/06/2026

And there is 'joke bias' because Claude Code gave EXACTLY the same joke as Gemma 4. 😂

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 07/06/2026

Anyway, when I asked Gemma about Kahneman's book "Thinking, fast and slow" this was an interesting result.

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 07/06/2026

So #Gemma4 is cool and I love local models. That even a small 12b model can think is great. Amazing progress in this space. But if I ask for a joke do *not* overthink it, ok? 😀

The thinking process of an LLM when I ask it for a joke...

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 02/06/2026

After that, I could install Hermes agent itself using the cURL command. Installation was smooth, but a whole set of params needs to be set before using it. And then it opened, but why is the font yellow on a white background ???

screenshot of hermes agent with yellow font on white background

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 02/06/2026

First, I installed Tailscale on my Raspberry Pi, so I can safely log into the Pi from anywhere. @tailscale.com

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 28/05/2026

I am a white-haired man who understands the meaning of this word, but if I would use this with my students, I do not believe they will understand. I would love to use David Marr's famous model with my AI students but they'll be confused about 'computational'... suggestions welcome!

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 14/04/2026

AI Agents are all the rage in AI. Tomorrow I'll give a workshop on AI Agents for a general audience. We'll start with basics and work our way up to e.g MCP and Skills. Location: Amsterdam OBA, Oosterdokskade, Floor -1 Starts 19:00. sensemakersams.org/events/

An image depicting an AI agent is combination of an LLM and tools

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 30/03/2026

From my classroom I have a good view on the building in this picture. Here you see the first Dutch programmer Edsger Dijkstra (left) ± 75 years ago. You should know him from the 'shortest path algorithm'. Tomorrow's class is about end of programming - as we now let AI do the programming.

The famous picture of Edsger Dijkstra, Bram Loopstra and Ria Debets.

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 23/03/2026

Ilya Sutskever in a speech where he accepts his honorary degree. (Ilya was the man who got CNN's working back in 2012 and later chief scientist at OpenAi when they were still research. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuZ2...

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 09/03/2026

Long overdue and I hardly used it, but now I have closed my PayPal account for obvious reasons. #PaypalMafia #stopPeterThiel

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 08/03/2026

Ukraine has recently recaptured a large area north of Hulyaipole. Will Hulyaipole be the next city after Kupyansk that will be liberated ?? maps from ISW

map by the Institute of the Study of War of the controle of the terrain in Eastern Zaporizhia 7 March

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 06/03/2026

I succesfully migrated my account to @eurosky.social ! My data is safely stored in Europe, away from Trump's grabby fingers. #EuroStack

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 03/03/2026

in dealing with shaheds I know someone who holds a trump card...

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 03/03/2026

Maybe Trump should call someone who has experience in dealing with Shaheds.

AI image of president zelenski who holds an Ace card with a drone on it.

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 02/03/2026

I know somebody who holds the right cards!

AI generated Image of president Zelenski holding a Ace card with a drone on it.

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 02/03/2026

Debacle 4: een slecht ontworpen "gasmarkt" obv neoliberale principes. Wie nog even de moeite neemt de vorige piek in gasprijs na te zoeken, ziet een patroon: Lege voorraden => hoge prijzen. persportaal.anp.nl/artikel/5d0c...

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 01/03/2026

She is currently in Zeebrugge. Well done, Belgium!

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 16/02/2026

They all have. Here is @pkrugman.bsky.social Nobel laureate in economics.

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 08/02/2026

De #IKEA chatbot is toch ook echt uit het jaar nul. Dit zouden mijn studenten beter kunnen. #AI #fail

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 06/02/2026

How it started vs How it's going. It's been less than a year when @karpathy.bsky.social, one of the best in #AI, coined the term #vibecoding. Now, he is not emboldend but he feels 'behind in programming'. If he already feels like this, what do I tell my students? What should I teach them?

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 05/02/2026

Great paper: "The Platonic Representation Hypothesis" Neural networks, trained with different objectives on different data and modalities, are converging to a shared statistical model of reality in their representation spaces. arxiv.org/abs/2405.07987 I made a video of Plato's Cave for my class

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 21/01/2026

The US is definitely not outpacing European countries.

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 18/01/2026

With Claude you can now do programming tasks that take ± 5 hours. (source: metr.org/blog/2025-03...) But Frogger was 700 Lines of Code, so that would normally take longer.

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 18/01/2026

Vibe coding. Can we remake the arcade game Frogger just by prompting it? Oh yes!

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 23/12/2025

Ze zullen wel onze economische groei benijden...

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