De eed is afgelegd en de eerste maand zit erop. Een mooi moment om te delen dat ik ben gestart als ondernemende ambtenaar om te bouwen aan onze digitale samenleving. Ik ga werken aan een maatschappij waar we AI verantwoord in kunnen zetten. In het AI Validatie Team ga ik aan de slag om tools te ontwikkelen. Deze tools gaan uiteraard ee...

Are you thinking about leaving the cloud? Google's latest announcement shows that you are now the only one. "Starting today, Google Cloud customers who wish to stop using Google Cloud and migrate their data to another cloud provider and/or on premises, can take advantage of free network data transfer to migrate their data out of Google...

Ik ben een voorstander van open source. Helaas gaan nu steeds meer tech bedrijven er mee aan de haal en daardoor wordt het lastiger in te schatten of iets wel echt open source is. OpenAI is al vaak als voorbeeld aangehaald. Alleen nu doet ook Facebook mee. Zij kondigen groots aan dat ze hun antwoord op ChatGPT open source aanbieden. He...

De Rijksoverheid weet dat ze voor open source moet kiezen, maar doet dit in de meeste gevallen niet. De documentaire "Open Source, de vrijblijvendheid voorbij!" gaat hier op in: https://wearefrank.tv/watch/170 Dat het anders kan blijkt uit hoe Estland het aanpakt. Digitalisering met open source staat hoog op de agenda. Een politieke ke...

Er is veel onduidelijk over de databronnen waarop tools zoals ChatGPT zijn getraind. Vanaf het begin was er al het vermoeden dat auteursrechten geschonden worden en waarschijnlijk zijn ook privé gegevens niet meer veilig als ze eenmaal in het model terecht zijn gekomen. Als je denkt dat het allemaal wel meevalt, dan is er dit artikel i...

A question asked a lot, and the most logical answer is yes. As a defense, you hear that AI will also create new jobs or cannot fully replace jobs. How bad is it if AI replaces jobs? More and more people moved to well-paid office jobs. Many of them are meaningless in a certain way. Look at the number of people that Twitter recently fire...

With tremendous impact comes responsibility. The tech world has started implementing generative and interactive AI into tools we use in our daily lives. Search engines, mail applications, document tools, chatbots, etc. This will have a huge impact, so what about transparency? What do we know about these models? Let's look at one of the...

Een feestelijke lancering van de algoritmetoezichthouder. Maar hoe serieus moeten we dit nemen? Als ik naar het budget kijk dat wordt uitgebouwd tot 3,6 miljoen in 2026, dan vind ik dat de Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (Dutch DPA) veel te weinig geld krijgt voor het werk dat ze moet gaan verzetten. Wil je serieus toezicht houden, dan moe...

Hoe afhankelijk willen we zijn van buitenlandse partijen? Met gas hebben we een keuze gemaakt en de impact gemerkt. Maar hoe zit het met onze IT? In januari kregen we een voorproefje. Microsoft had problemen, en blijkbaar leverde dit al direct uitdagingen op in onze Tweede Kamer. Zie ook dit artikel op het AD. Het is toch bizar dat een...

We are thrilled to announce that the AskAnna frontend code is now available for everyone. You can find the full announcement on our site. At AskAnna, we believe that transparency is crucial to success and acceptance in applying data, analytics and AI. By making our project open source, we show we want to be transparent. We understand t...

Why? Because using the cloud comes at a price. For businesses, it's not about paying by sharing your sensitive data for the big tech companies to use. It's the amount you pay for using the services. Instead of running it yourself, you pay a massive premium so you think you don't have to worry about managing software and servers. Recent...

This week Musk suggested he wants to lay off 75 percent of the current Twitter staff. People suggest that he is crazy. That this is not a realistic plan. But is he? It always amazes me how many people work for platform companies like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Did you know that when WhatsApp had more active users than currently on...

Two days of World Summit AI and the thoughts I had after this event: • Think before you act. Don’t say sorry afterward, but think about the potential impact and risks before you start building solutions. • Take back control of the algorithm. Inspirational lecture by Mark Surman of the Mozilla Foundation. Making trustworthy and transpar...

Did you know you can easily switch to local formats using Python locale? For example, you can use this code snippet to print the date in the local language: import locale from datetime import datetime date = datetime.now() locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME, "nl_NL.UTF-8") print(date.strftime("%d %B %Y").lstrip("0")) What I didn't know wa...

Why don’t you have a roadmap for AskAnna? What is your release cycle? At AskAnna, we work on awesome features and make them available when they are good enough to ship. We continuously research and learn. This gives us insight into what we think we should work on. This blog from Jason Fried reminded me that we only ship a feature when ...

Photo by Artem Maltsev on Unsplash If you're new to Python and check the options available in an object, you might wonder about the naming with the double underscores (dunder). This article gives you insight into the dunder methods and how you can write some awesome magic dunder yourself: https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-write-awe...

My day at Women in Data Science Netherlands 2022 Embracing responsible AI, that's how the day started. Intuitively you would say that everyone wants AI to be applied responsibly. But what is responsible AI? I guess we're still trying to figure it out. Arlette gave some good ideas. For example, define your organization's AI principles, ...

Sharing your data is not always possible. With distributed training there is a solution that enables you to train models together with other organizations without sharing your sensitive data. Recently BranchKey ran a distributed training project on the AskAnna platform using their federated learning environment. We connected multiple p...

Last year we launched tracking metrics in AskAnna. In this post, I want to discuss why we build this feature and how it can help build models fact-based. Tracking metrics is part of our philosophy that if you work in data analytics, you should be able to reproduce your results. When you make a summary of your data, this is relatively s...

I just finished listening to the book “I, Robot”. A collection of science fiction stories written in 1940 and 1950. But is it science fiction? If I map what’s in the book with developments and (ethical) discussions in machine learning, he already describes what is actual nowadays. Who’s in control? What is the psychology behind an algo...