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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Something we could do if we could somehow harness European hypocrisy as energy.

The enterprise D in front of a planet and space station. By cannikin1701 on deviantart.

Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Haven been to a couple of art museums recently, I what the oldest known oil paining is. Some say that the method was pioneered by Jan van Eyck (the dude with the red table cloth on his head). However, about 800 years earlier Buddhist monks in todays Afghanistan painted murals with oil paint.

partially visible buddhist oil paintings on a stone wall. Vibrant red and green parts are still well visible.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We (@jose-e.bsky.social) have a new preprint out in which we explore a Neural Petri Flow on chemical reactions. Turns out that it does atom mapping, reaction classification, reaction forward prediction, and mechanism prediction rather well. arxiv.org/abs/2610.08750 github.com/daenuprobst/npf

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Good to see that we support our rich people here. They have been through so much, all this capital doesn't accumulate itself, after all.

A horizontal bar chart titled "Taxing wealth" showing the share of tax revenue from household capital income in select EU countries. While listed countries like Malta (0.3%), Slovakia (0.4%), Latvia (0.7%), and Poland (0.7%) generate positive revenue, the Netherlands sits at -0.9% because it gives back more in homeowner tax breaks than it collects.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

After 35 years, I finally made it to this screen. The controls still suck.

Screenshot of the 4th or 5th screen of prince of persia.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You can actually get some good Gouda here from the markets, it's just not sold in supermarkets here for some reason.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You just have to get fancy with it ;-)

a slice of bad bread with a bit of cheese on it

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Well, according to our latest preprint the story is, at least visually, quite different. Convergent breeding?

A circular visual diagram showing a TMAP tree path transitioning from a Persian cat (step 1) to a Yorkshire Terrier (step 18) across 18 numbered test-set images from the Oxford-IIIT Pets dataset, highlighting a species boundary between a Sphynx cat and a Chihuahua.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Also, this. There are of course many, many more examples.

A screenshot of an article header from The Atlantic under the Politics section, featuring the headline "Go Ahead, Admit It: George W. Bush Is a Good Man," the subheadline "In the rush to mythologize and demonize our presidents, we forget they're human," and the byline "By Ron Fournier and National Journal."

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Capping the desktop CPU to half the wattage for a ~10% performance loss is a good trade. Also keeps the system quiet.

CPU metrics showing all cores in use at 63 °C and 125W.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Not sure I'd trust them to get me where I want to go:

A map of Switzerland with cities in a very wrong place.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I just looked for a picture of a hydroponic fish garden and this is the first picture that showed up.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Eclipse seen from the surface of the moon. April 24, 1967.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The cats love the solar eclipse 😁

Cats hanging around a solar eclipse cardboard observatory

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The losers and cheats are getting scared 😁

Title:
Claude watermarking our work is unethical and disgusting
Post:
We gave the instructions, context, decisions, and countless refinements, claude was the tool.
If Claude starts watermarking the code or anything else it generates, what exactly is it claiming credit for?
By that logic, my internet provider should watermark everything we do. The operating system should watermark everything claude creates, the compiler should watermark every binary we build.
And eventually Claude or Anthropic should opensource everything so that one can tell what exactly Claude did
They are tools and infrastructure, so is Claude.
The final output comes from prompt, thoughts, instructions, decisions, corrections, subscription fee and refinement. The model helped execute that process, if Claude wants to provide provenance, fine. But branding the output because we used its tool is ridiculous, considering it’s ultimately the people’s decision to go with this which text, code.
You didn’t create the work, I gave you the instruction to create the bits.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

And here's the latest preprint: Inductive Graph Layout with Implicit Neural Fields by Berfin Inal and me. Instead of pushing around free coordinates to get a nice graph drawing, we we just make it an implicit function via a tiny MLP that is trained on the layout energy. arxiv.org/abs/2608.08876

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Anyone wanna guess what this is? I'll let you konw as soon as the preprint is out ;-)

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Early 2000s? This plus everything needed to run it 😉

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Excellent! Smart glasses are becoming known as pervert glasses. Some might say the best way to remove them is by punching.

In September 2021, Meta launched Ray-Ban Stories, its first generation of smart glasses. In 2023, Meta and Ray-Ban released Ray-Ban Meta, the second generation of the companies' smart glasses line, with Meta AI integration. In June 2026, Meta released additional smart glasses called Meta Glasses.[1] Meta's smart glasses have received criticism stemming from mistrust over Facebook's privacy controls,[2] the small size of the recording indicator light,[3] and for privacy and ethical concerns, with people labeling them "pervert glasses".[4][5]

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Yes, we can now draw graphs in the shape of starfleet insignia. More on the method later.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Oh, I see. Those two furry flat mates want me to stay home as much as possible...

Two cats, a Berman and a British shorthair, side by side.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Now with a background to make the Studio Ghibli influence a bit more obvious ;-). It's a shader that does all the work, no models except for the, well, 3D model of the protein that is read from a PDB file.

A render of a protein with faded colours and soft shadows in the Studio Ghibli style.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Here's one for the chemists: The Schneider50k reaction data set coloured by reaction type.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

FloDR: An invertible dimensionality reduction method based on a normalising flow ... combining the advantages of PCA with those of UMAP. We also show what the map "hides" in the remaining dimensions and how wrong it is when two points with different labels are close. arxiv.org/pdf/2607.26278

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

... about those scary looking deep-sea fish...

A split image featuring a Black Dragonfish (family Stomiidae, specifically a Pacific Blackdragon / Idiacanthus antrostomus):

Left Side (Macro View): A dramatic close-up showing the creature's menacing, alien-like features against a dark background. It highlights its gaping mouth packed with needle-sharp, glass-like teeth, a small reflective eye, dark reddish skin, and a delicate chin barbel hanging beneath its jaw containing a bioluminescent lure.

Right Side (Scale View): Shows a researcher or handler holding the same specimen in their hands. This perspective highlights its surprising size—while it looks like a gigantic ocean monster in macro photos, it is actually a remarkably thin, ribbon-like creature small enough to coil across a pair of hands.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I'm cleaning out old weekend projects that I've worked on over the years. Here's one: A python package wrapping a shader that renders proteins in a certain, well-known style, or at least my interpretation of it (the hint is in the name). Have fun. github.com/daenuprobst/...

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The country that named the weapons they use to terrorise people around the world "Tomahawk" and "Apache" did what!?

"Indian land for sale" poster from during the US genocide against the North Americans

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The head of strategic futures at openai may need a change of underwear. He's very scared.

One probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is full AI communism, which is precisely what China proposes: rather than a market product, AI is a "public good" which will ultimately be provided by the state as a kind of "digital public infrastructure." This future strikes me as a dystopian hellscape, but I've never met an open-weight models advocate who doesn't ultimately concede this is where things end.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I used it once. You send an SMS/Text to the (Swiss) Post and you get a code that you write on the letter. It's probably an app now 😁

a graphic showing how to write a code on a letter

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Exceptionalism leads to funny posts.

"Is Belgium the greatest soccer team of all time? These guys are monsters"

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I would never smash this thing to bits... ... because as private property of a potentially large company, it probably has more rights than me.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

150 years or so ago, some guy wrote that ecological sustainability was "of very limited practical relevance to capitalist society". Well.

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

(Die Erklärung ist, wie eigentlich immer, Geschichte, Klassendynamik, und Kolonialismus, siehe hier: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10...., und hier: www.liverpool.ac.uk/~rory/Footba...)

Meme showing that the three biggest cities in Germany lie on a circle

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