Jeroen De Maeyer
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Business Development Manager 'machineries & factories': smart motion products & smart production systems @UGent @UGentMnF @FlandersMake
Ghent area
Joined January 2012
Data from @NASA shows Earth reflects less sunlight back to space (albedo). As the Southern Hemisphere holds more ocean, it's darker than the Northern Hemisphere. But the NH is now as dark as the SH was 20 years ago! Less (sea) ice, aerosols and clouds decreased albedo.
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"Science and the world at large are really concerned over all the extreme climate events hitting societies across the planet. But what worries us, even more, is the rising signs of dwindling planetary resilience.”
theguardian.com
First complete ‘scientific health check’ shows most global systems beyond stable range in which modern civilisation emerged
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The data is now official: 3 years’ worth of rain fell within two days. Scientists on Greek TV discussing the possibility of the formation of new, permanent lakes in the area. It is a new planet. #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #climatecatastrophe
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Jasper Nonneman receives the best paper award at https://t.co/lEbOG0DOSs with a paper on our work in cooperation with @FlandersMake in the SingleOil-project. Congratulations to all co-authors and let’s keep up the good work!
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“Perhaps 100,000 tons of carbon have ever been removed from the atmosphere by a human-run process. But by 2050, in order to hit the IPCC’s targets, humanity must remove about 5 billion tons a year at a cost of roughly $100 a ton.”
heatmap.news
How Team Biden learned to stop worrying and love carbon removal.
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Paper #11 by Ilya T’Jollyn at https://t.co/866Ek6tmew
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Paper #10 by Jana Rogiers at https://t.co/lEbOG0DOSs in cooperation with https://t.co/fV75kfdpGC
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Paper #9 by Victor Van Riet in cooperation with @JorisDegroote at https://t.co/lEbOG0EmI0
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A lesson on the greenhouse effect with Carl Sagan. 🎥: Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change
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SitRep - 14/08/23 - New US aid & Kozachi Laheri bridgehead is maintained.. A daily overview of all events in the war between Russia and Ukraine. Further gains near Verbove are reported and the AFU kept presence near Kozachi Laheri 1/X RT = appreciated!
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“We are running out of creativity tests that AIs cannot ace.” “GPT-4 now beats 91% of humans on the Alternative Uses Test and 99% on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking.” “The irony is that AIs were supposed to be all logic and no imagination.” “Suddenly, AIs were able to
For practical purposes, AI is creative. Three new working papers show that AI-generated ideas are often judged as both more creative and more useful than the ones humans come up with. And they also show you don’t need elaborate prompts to get good ideas.
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Even wat cijfers over die ‘overdreven prestatiedruk’ in ons onderwijs: Vr begrijpend lezen basisonderwijs hebben we 3% toppers (EU: 9%). Voor wetenschappen 2% (EU 6%). Wiskunde secundair: van 34% (2003) -> 19%. Lezen 34% -> 12%, Wetenschap 13% -> 10%. Prestatiemotivatie: laatste
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