Very meta.
What a way to make them even more useless..
Dus terwijl de in de ons omringende landen het spoorkaartje juist (aanzienlijk) goedkoper wordt, gaan wij juist dubbelop betalen voor slechtere service? En de dienstverlening is sinds corona al aanzienlijk uitgekleed. Het is niet meer zelden dat ik een trein moet laten schieten, omdat er slechts een 4'tje wordt ingezet waar er voorheen een 4+6 combinatie reed. En savonds haal ik mijn aansluiting ook al niet meer. En das dan in hartje randstad, in de provincie is het allemaal nog erger.
De minister doet alsof dit het enige haalbare is, alsof NS anders failliet zou gaan. Maar als enige aandeelhouder had de Staat ook gewoon de portemonnee kunnen trekken.
Dit soort beleid duwt mensen alleen nóg meer de auto in. Je kunt het mensen niet kwalijk nemen dat ze tussen 8 en 9 op kantoor willen zijn, anders staat voor velen de baan op de tocht.
Ook ondermijnt het - opnieuw - het draagvlak voor (broodnodige) klimaatmaatregelen. Met rekeningrijden wordt het leven voor de (provinciale) burger stukken duurder onder het mom van vervuiler betaald. Maar het milieuvriendelijkere alternatief wordt zo de nek om gedraaid. Terwijl het (grote) bedrijfsleven 80% van de vervuiling veroorzaakt, mag de burger er allemaal voor opdraaien.
Al met al komt het mij inmiddels toch echt over als burgertje pesten.
Dank voor de tip!
Mijn schoonfamilie komt uit Opperdoes. Iedere zomer krijgen we daar al een lading van 😅
While bard got some really bad reviews compared to chatgpt, I've honestly found it better with queries chatgpt struggled with. I have two examples:
- "Please write a python function that returns an exact solution to pi" Both come up with gregory-leibnitz formula, which of course is an approximation. When challenged that I want an exact solution instead of an approximation, chatgpt apologizes and then returns yet another approximation. Bard correctly claims that that is impossible as pi is an irrational number.
- "What can you tell me about a compound called polysac-active in cough syrups". Chatgpt hallucinates something about a company in Indonesia, which seems to have a product that sounds vaguely similar to one of the brands selling that compound. Bard, on the other hand, correctly surmises it's mostly honey and even gives some examples of real products that feature this ingredient.
In general, Bard in general seems one of the few llms that will tell me it doesn't know something or that something is impossible. IMHO that's better than just coming up with a hallucination.
Netherlands too has over 4000 sirens.
This went away?
These days I'm getting increasingly difficult puzzles.
The book. It revolves around space pirates who travel in ships with sails.
I've read everything by Reynolds, but unfortunately I'd rank this at the very bottom. Nothing to do with the ship tho, it's just that the entire pirate thing wasn't my cup of tea.
For a whole host of reasons. In summary, quality of life for those remaining is going to crater, together with some form of social collapse.
- Most social insurances (e.g. pensions and welfare) depend on young, healthy, working people paying for those in need. As the population pyramid gets inverted, eventually this will become completely unsustainable. Meaning those who are young now will not be able to benefit from a pension in the future.
- Health care costs are going to soar to unsustainable levels. To some extend, this has already happened. Again, old people tend to require health care a lot more frequently - even permanently, usually- than young people. As the population pyramid gets inverted, this means ever fewer young people have to care for ever more sick people. As an example, my country estimates that by 2050 we'll need to spend 40% of GDP and 1 in 3 working people on health care if we want to keep the service level at today's standards. That's of course completely unrealistic. To some extent this is already starting to deteriorate.
- Ever fewer people will have to maintain essential services. Think sanitation, sewage, construction, rail services and so on. Again, unsustainable.
- The gerontocracy will mean society will become increasingly inflexible, rigid, and stuck in the past. Young people drive change, old people like to keep things as they are. Opinions don't usually change. Instead, they die one funeral at a time.
- The economic challenges caused by an aging population will require tough choices. But with the gerontocracy, such choices will likely not be made. Or they will only be passed on to next generations (who get no say in the matter, as they will be too small a voting bloc). Ultimately this will necessarily lead to some form of social collapse.
I used to teach a python scripting course to graduate students in Biology. With each progressing year, the average base computing skills actually went down. A very large fraction these days has trouble with the very concept of files and folders.