Koen Hufkens, PhD

@koen_hufkens
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Addressing #climatechange through data driven methods in #ecology #remotesensing #phenology #foodsecurity

#rstats developer | #academic omnivore | move fast and fix things | personal account | #politics, #science & #foss software | account with amnesia | he / him

There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in
- Leonard Cohen

Websitehttps://bluegreenlabs.org
Githubhttps://github.com/bluegreen-labs
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/koen-hufkens/
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5070-8109

#Colombia #SingerSongwriter #Spanish

For #MusicWomenWednesday here's the first single, "Duelo," by Juana Tobón, a young artist from Colombia (who is the sister of @irenerd 🙂).

"Duelo" could be a duel, but also grief or mourning, and there are images of all those meanings in the song.

The chorus:
Armas cargadas (Weapons loaded)
Mirada el frente (Gaze straight ahead)
No digas nada (Don't say anything)
En blanco la mente (The mind blank)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I-JefHc2Jw

DUELO - Juana Tobón

YouTube

Frank Elderson, board of ECB:
"Europe cannot eliminate geopolitical risk, but it can significantly reduce its exposure to it. The most effective way to do that is by cutting reliance on imported fossil fuels and accelerating an orderly shift to homegrown clean energy.:

The investment may be € 660 bn a year.
Sounds like a large number (it is) until you remember that Europe spends € 400 bn a year on fossil fuel imports.

https://www.ft.com/content/6fa21bdb-1387-4fb8-afc9-3d0b53affa58

Europe’s fossil fuel dependence poses risks to price stability

Repeated cost shocks make a transition to cleaner energy critical

Financial Times

🫣 Sam Altman's Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Machine Learning Concepts

「 As one senior executive at Microsoft put it to the New Yorker: “I think there’s a small but real chance he’s eventually remembered as a Bernie Madoff- or Sam Bankman-Fried-level scammer.” 」

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-technical-coding

#openai #ai #samaltman

Sam Altman’s Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Machine Learning Concepts

The OpenAI CEO reportedly confuses basic coding and machine learning terms, numerous insiders have admitted.

Futurism

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116370079723832972

Smoking their own stash to model collapse?

The senior director of AI at AMD has complained on Github that since January, Claude now ignores instructions, suggests fixes that are incorrect, directly contradicts requests and claims completion despite, well, not completing the task.

A new software engineering hazard is your developer velocity getting worse because your AI agent provider is going through capacity issues.

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/amds-senior-director-of-ai-thinks-claude-has-regressed-and-that-it-cannot-be-trusted-to-perform-complex-engineering/

AMD's senior director of AI thinks 'Claude has regressed' and that it 'cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering'

This is reportedly since changes made in February.

PC Gamer
See where flowers and leaves are emerging early after record-warm March
Temperatures were a whopping 7F degrees above average across the country during March, and it was shockingly toasty in the West, where temperatures were summerlike.
This season, leaves have popped out earlier than normal across wide swaths of the country, including the West, Rockies, Plains and the Midwest — consistent with very unusual March heat.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/interactive/2026/spring-flowers-blooming-leaves-out-record-warmth/
https://archive.ph/Mmd65
#climate #climatechange
See how early flowers are blooming and leaves are emerging in your area

About 190 million Americans are experiencing an early start to spring, based on the behavior of lilac and honeysuckle, data shows.

The Washington Post
World War 1: Bullet
World War 2: Rejected from art school
World War 3: Mean Twitter thread

A paper that I co-authored was just published (#OpenAccess) a few minutes ago in Nature 🎉 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10260-w

Here's a short thread about what we did and what we learned 👇

#LightPollution #Energy #ALAN #RemoteSensing #NightLightRemoteSensing #EarthObservation #VIIRS_DNB

I wish people from #Codeberg and #Zenodo would collaborate to get the same clever integration features that allow people to preserve #GitHub releases at Zenodo. I bet people from the scientific community would like that. Is it too much to wish some big sciency inftrastructure group would fund this? ;-)

I'm going to archive stuff at Zenodo as I move out of GitHub.

#hopeful #FLOSS

"The Dow is up 1,300 points this morning. …

The market is celebrating one sentence on Truth Social while the region burns."

~ Mike Brock

#Trump #Iran #war #insanity #MadKing #megalomania
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https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/trump-derangement-syndrome

Trump Derangement Syndrome

A Crisis Dispatch

Notes from the Circus