Oh dear, I am seeing the other ridiculous tech hype, but with even less substance than LLMs, namely quantum computing, being touted as a topic Europe should be a leader on by 2030.

Can we please stop the bullshit?

The other week I asked ChatGPT to cluster the Digital Omnibus amendments by duplication and/or semantic overlap. It prodcued great looking spreadsheets. Took another look at the output and the first three items already contained a glaring error.

And here I was thinking LLMs are good at pattern matching.

Niet de Woo is peperduur, maar het ontbreken van een fatsoenlijke informatiehuishouding omdat men wel decennia geautomatiseerd heeft op document-niveau, maar nooit geïnformatiseerd op proces-niveau.

For the umpteenth time to the poor British sods who still maybelieve Andy Burham's words: there is no rejoin. There are a bunch of scenarios that could be less economically painful than the current arrangement with the EU. None of them can be called "rejoin". Either you join on worse terms than you did in 1972 and with ironclad guarantees that you will not Brexit again anytime soon, or you get an EFTA-like arrangement
(including free movement of people), all with subversience to the CJEU.

Not buying the Reticulum kool-aid. A blog may be forthcoming.

@nprofile1q... Why are ant queens that not have yet founded a colony not called princesses?

Geen Speld tussen te krijgen:

https://speld.nl/2026/10/13/overheid-raadt-albert-heijn-aan-om-voor-8-dagen-eten-in-huis-te-hebben

For those whose Danish geography is a tad hazy, this means that it is very likely that for about two years it will not be possible to travel by train between Hamburg and Copenhagen without suffering an intermediary bus trip. Together with the abject mess that is the German side of the route via the Fehmarnbelt, it means that for the time being flying to Copenhagen is the sensible option for most travelers.