Daniel Probst

@skepteis.bsky.social

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Computer scientist, Bioinformatician, PhD in Chemistry and Molecular Sciences. Working on the above as an Assistant Prof at WUR. Interested in all the sciences. Materialist. Fan of cats, Punk Rock, and Hockey.

"Indian land for sale" poster from during the US genocide against the North Americans
​One probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is full AI communism, which is precisely what China proposes: rather than a market product, AI is a "public good" which will ultimately be provided by the state as a kind of "digital public infrastructure." This future strikes me as a dystopian hellscape, but I've never met an open-weight models advocate who doesn't ultimately concede this is where things end.
don camillo e peppone
a graphic showing how to write a code on a letter
"Is Belgium the greatest soccer team of all time? These guys are monsters"
Yenk goaltender hitting the grass instead of the ball
A world map, each country except the US in Belgian colours.
This painting shows Manifest Destiny, the belief in westward expansion of the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. It was widely distributed as an engraving called "Spirit of the Frontier". Settlers are moving west, guided and protected by Columbia, aided by modern technology like railroads, and driving Native Americans and bison into obscurity. Columbia represents America, dressed in a Roman toga to represent classical republicanism, and brings the enlightened east to the darkened west.
A delivery clanker getting into the way of people walking on a sidewalk.
All countries except the US painted in the US flag (FIFA World Cup 2026)
Ruud Dil Gullit (* 1. September 1962 in Amsterdam, Niederlande als Rudi Dil) ist ein ehemaliger niederländischer Fußballspieler und heutiger -trainer. Er führte die niederländische Nationalmannschaft 1988 als Mannschaftskapitän zum Europameistertitel.
Temperature map Europe. A lot is red.
Meme showing that the three biggest cities in Germany lie on a circle
Lagwagon on stage.
Lagwagon empty stage
A list of drowned refugees
Spanish ice hockey players
Hotel lobby sign stating that guests attending events at MetLife Stadium may not walk to or from the stadium because walking on surrounding roadways is illegal and dangerous.
SRF headline "Zu Gast bei Feinden: "Team Mullah" in den USA"
The is this a pigeon meme with a scientist asking whether alienation is efficiency
World cup ticket prices over time, being much, much more expensive in the "US" this year. Source: https://theworldcupguide.com/how-much-are-world-cup-tickets-since-1994/
The attached figure depicts a single layer (a GraphSetConv block) of the GraphSetTransformer GNN.
Top 5 herbicides included for corn, soybean, cotton, spring wheat, and winter wheat for the most recent year USDA reports data. Labels of practically non-toxic, slightly, moderately, highly, and very highly correspond to values of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 in the Environmental Impact Quotient Pesticide Table, last updated August 2025. Table: The Breakthrough InstituteSource: Cornell Environmental Impact QuotientGet the dataCreated with Datawrapper
Escher monument at Züri HB
a group of young geese walking towards the camera
A person tells a computer to say "I am alive," and then reacts in shock when the computer responds exactly with ">I AM ALIVE".
Close-up of the snout of a dolphin, where 6 whiskers can be seen. Source: https://www.sea-west.com.au/a-dolphins-whiskers/ ©Photo by Natalie Goddard – Dolphin Hayley’s calf shorltly after birth – May 2019
Benjamin Franklin on the Nature Cover.
Bruce playing a CIA agent in Burn Notice
Top scorer list of the ice hockey world championship, with 6 Swiss players among the top 12.
Switzerland leading Germany 0:6
A gracht
The water gate of Zutphen
New releases tab with cypress hill and sublime
An atheism vs religion debate with Hossenfelder and Zizek 😁
A langauge tree with an arrow pointing at the germanic romance language split
A screenshot of a neovim theme inspired by the star trek LCARS colours from TNG
A star chart as seen from Alpha Centauri. The sun is a part of the constellation Cassiopeia.
Rocknpop museum
A market withsome historical building in the background
A Nijntje streetlight.
Street crossing in Utrecht with the Nijntje
A fry chocolate bunny.
A DLSS5 ON/OFF meme where with off, the ram costs 99 dollars, with on 700.
A political cartoon from Cagle Cartoons that uses humour to satirize American exceptionalism and cultural self-centredness. On the left side, an American football player (wearing a USA jersey) is doing a loud, boastful touchdown celebration, shouting phrases like "I AM EXCEPTIONAL!", "I AM THE BEST EVER!", "GOD CHOSE ME!", "WE'RE #1!", and "I AM THE GREATEST!" — complete with cheerleaders cheering him on. On the right side, a soccer match is quietly underway on what is clearly a soccer field, with players from different teams playing the actual game in progress. A group of spectators in the middle looks on, with one person asking, "What's wrong with a little touchdown celebration?" — to which someone responds, "We're playing soccer."
A protestor holding up a sign, "The UK took our island home for a US Air Base"
The cover of Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Strife. Shows a greenish planet in front of a blue nebula with a spaceship approaching it.
An old painting or drawing (black and white) of the Berlin conference, where Europeans divided Africa among themselves.
10 Frank Swiss banknote with le Corbusier.
Swiss 10 Franc bank note with Leonard Euler on it.
Kohl and Yelzin chilling on a boat
A linked-in post by a self-proclaimed Compiler Engineer claiming that Python is more performant than C++ and Rust.
Party alignments showing the largest Swiss party further to the right than the republicans. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/26/opinion/sunday/republican-platform-far-right.html
three users in my timeline saying "Fuck", "Fuck", and "I hate this".
Meme of Kirk yelling Sweeeedeeen! instead of Khan!
A title page showing a rocket starting titled "Raketen Flugpost"
Black-and-white sketch of Friedrich Schmiedl.
This scatter plot from EL PAÍS, titled "Are medals earned with money?", visualizes countries' performance at the Paris 2024 Olympics by plotting GDP per capita on the x-axis against medals won per million inhabitants on the y-axis (both on logarithmic scales), with bubble size representing population. A diagonal trend line confirms a general positive correlation between national wealth and medal efficiency, though notable outliers exist — Dominica and Georgia dramatically exceed expectations for their income level, while populous nations like India and Indonesia fall far below the trend despite their size. Bubble colors distinguish continental regions, with red European nations clustering near the trend line on the wealthier right side, and large green bubbles for Asian giants like India and China anchoring the lower portions of the chart.
A cat walking out from under a blanket