Walter

The EU just revealed what's really driving nicotine tax policy, and it isn't public health. The latest TED draft cuts taxes on cigars and heated tobacco to keep member states happy, then raises e-liquid rates to balance the books. No scientific justification. Just political deal-making. Less harmful products are used as bargaining chips, and vapers pay the price. Full statement: buff.ly/Fmd5Dhw

I’ve always believed the No.1 application of AI should be to improve human health. That work started with AlphaFold, and now at @IsomorphicLabs with the mission to reimagine drug discovery and one day solve all disease! We are turbocharging that goal with $2.1B in new funding.

@BM_Visser Een warmtepomp als hernieuwbaar rekenen is toch wel vreemd

Inmiddels zijn veel gegevens over 2025 bekend, dus een bijgewerkte schatting/berekening mijnerzijds. Het aandeel hernieuwbaar in 2025 is dan 22,5% (iets hoger dan eerst) en in 2030 31% (stabiel). #grafiekvandedag CBS publiceert binnenkort haar (voorlopige) cijfer over 2025. PBL komt in september met haar raming voor 2030. Elk jaar weer benieuwd hoe goed mijn modellen zich houden in de sterk veranderende energiewereld.

@Kees1617748 @AlpinaB3SHenri Voor nul zal je bedoelen 😂

@AlpinaB3SHenri Een hele goedemorgen Henri, die vent staat voor lul😂😂😂🍺👍👍

Goedemorgen allemaal🤣

Belgien beschliesst ein Aromenverbot bei E-Zigaretten analog der Niederlande. Offensichtlich hat man sich die Entwicklung des Nachbars seit Einführung des Aromenverbotes, nicht genau angeschaut. Vizepremierminister Frank Vandenbrocke sagt: „ man will mit dieser Maßnahme besser die Kinder und Jugendlichen schützen“. Sorry Belgien!!!! Die Niederlande zeigt ganz klar das Gegenteil. 87% Schwarzmarkt!!!! Das Verbot wirkte ganz klar kontraproduktiv und durch den Schwarzmarkt hat man den Zugang für Jugendliche eher erleichtert. Ergebnis: die Prävalenz unter Jugendlichen beim Konsum von E-Zigaretten und Tabakzigaretten ist angestiegen. Wann kommt der Tag, dass Politiker keine dummen Entscheidungen treffen? Wann?

🇧🇪 Belgique : interdiction des arômes 🇧🇪 Supprimer les arômes dans la vape, je dis souvent que c’est faire du vélo sans pédale. Mais y a encore plus sadique, pour arrêter de fumer la cigarette, ça sera goût cigarette et rien d’autre ! 👏 Et c’est pas une blague ☹️

Politicians scream "think of the children!" when they impose high taxes on Zyn. But only 0.6% of high schoolers frequently use nicotine pouches. "It's adults who are buying this stuff," explains @gbentley1 of @reason, "And that's a good thing, not a bad thing." Here's why:

An MIT professor taught the same math course for 62 years, and the day he retired, students from every country on earth showed up online to watch him give his final lecture. I opened the playlist at 2am and ended up watching three of them back to back. His name is Gilbert Strang. The course is MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra. Every machine learning engineer, every data scientist, every quant, every self-taught programmer who actually understands how AI works learned the math from this one man. Most of them never set foot on MIT's campus. They just opened a free playlist on YouTube and let him teach. Here's the story almost nobody tells you. Strang joined the MIT math faculty in 1962. He retired in 2023. That is 61 years of standing at the same chalkboard teaching the same subject to 18-year-olds. The interesting part is what he did when MIT launched OpenCourseWare in 2002. Most professors were skeptical. They worried that putting their lectures online would make their classrooms irrelevant. Strang did not hesitate. He said his life's mission was to open mathematics to students everywhere. He filmed every lecture and gave it away. The decision quietly changed how the world learns math. For decades linear algebra was taught the wrong way. Professors started with abstract vector spaces and proofs about field axioms. Students drowned in the abstraction. Most never recovered. They walked out believing they were bad at math when they had simply been taught in an order that nobody's brain is built to absorb. Strang inverted the entire curriculum. He started with matrix multiplication. Something you can write down on paper. Something you can compute by hand. Something you can see. Then he showed his students that everything else in linear algebra eigenvectors, singular value decomposition, orthogonality, the four fundamental subspaces was just a different lens for understanding what the matrix was actually doing under the hood. His rule was strict. If a student could not explain a concept using a concrete 3 by 3 example, that student did not actually understand the concept yet. The abstraction was supposed to come last, not first. The intuition was the foundation. The proofs were just confirmation that the intuition was correct. The second thing Strang changed was the classroom itself. He said please and thank you to his students. Every single lecture. He paused mid-derivation to ask "am I OK?" to check if anyone was lost. He never used the word "obviously" or "trivially" because he knew exactly what those words do to a student who is one step behind. He treated 19-year-olds learning math for the first time the way he treated his own colleagues. With patience. With respect. With the assumption that they belonged in the room. For 62 years. The result is something that has never happened in the history of education. A single math professor became the default teacher of his subject for the entire planet. Universities in India, China, Brazil, Nigeria, every country with a computer science department, started telling their own students to just watch Strang's lectures. The University of Illinois revised its linear algebra course to do almost no in-person lecturing. The reason was honest. The professor said they could not compete with the videos. His final lecture was in May 2023. The auditorium was packed with students who had never met him before. He walked to the chalkboard, taught for an hour, and at the end the entire room stood and applauded. He looked confused for a moment, like he genuinely did not understand why they were cheering. Then he smiled and waved them off and walked out. His written comment under the YouTube video of that final lecture was four sentences long. He said teaching had been a wonderful life. He said he was grateful to everyone who saw the importance of linear algebra. He said the movement of teaching it well would continue because it was right. That was it. No book promotion. No farewell speech. No legacy management. The man whose teaching is the foundation of modern AI just thanked the audience and went home. 20 million views. Zero ego. The entire engine of the AI revolution sits on top of math that millions of people learned for free from one quiet professor in Cambridge. The course is still on MIT OpenCourseWare. Every lecture, every problem set, every exam, every solution. Free. The most important math course of the 21st century is sitting one click away from you. Most people will never open it.

@janmodaal420 Is dat niet gevaarlijk voor stabiliteit van het net?

@walter_vaper Soms wel ja of in ieder geval dicht bij 100%

Hernieuwbare bronnen, vooral zonPV, leverden deze week voldoende elektriciteit voor 65% van de totale NL elektriciteitsvraag. Kerncentrale Borssele is in jaarlijks onderhoud en doet dus niet mee. #grafiekvandedag

@AlpinaB3SHenri Mijn dag is weeral goed begonnen Henri 😂

Goedemorgen allemaal, ik had hem nog willen waarschuwen dat we op Rotterdam Centraal waren aangekomen, maar ik kreeg hem niet wakker 😂🌞

@ChaunceyGardner @PantherNoster I had the same experience in 2013 . Tried vaping out of curiosity and stopped smoking after 35 years while I had no intention of doing so. #vapingsaveslives

Important: 30% of people who smoke have no intention to quit. They like it. But millions have now "quit by accident" with a nicotine vape. No one EVER "quits by accident" with nicotine replacement therapy or varenicline. The only people who use those WANT to quit.

📣📣Attention Please, Truth from @SecKennedy ! What's Stopping @DrMakaryFDA @CDCTobaccoFree and all the body parts from stating what the actual proven science says? Thank you for telling the Truth about Vapes! Now can we get them to STOP banning what is Keeping US alive?

“You cannot ban demand out of existence. What this policy has done is push consumers out of the regulated market and into illicit channels, while early indicators suggest some are being driven back to smoking. That is the opposite of what public health policy should be”. brusselstimes.com/2076002/dutch-…

With the release of the long awaited TPD Evaluation report, we call on MEPs to #fixtheflaws and to help explain why is was so bad, we have put together some handy infographics to break it all down.

The new steam age. This is actually becoming true. It's possible to do so much more on your own now.

expert reaction to qualitative risk assessment on the carcinogenicity of e-cigarettes sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reactio…

👇 Now served with a community note. Otherwise known as the lie detector test.

This is wild. theaustralian.com.au/business/techn…

Historische speech Marco Rubio (2015) over deal van toen president Obama met Iran. Briljante risicoanalyse. Onthoud ook wat Rubio recent over Europa heeft gezegd.