Bram Zijlstra
bramzijlstra.com
Bram Zijlstra
@bramzijlstra.com
Machine Learning Engineer with a background in Philosophy and AI.
I live in Amsterdam. Right now working at the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KVK). Also founder of a boutique consulting firm.
Love the name as well
August 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Interesting benchmark from Adyen on multi-step reasoning. New benchmarks are great in establishing a baseline for historic models, all new models should be treated with suspicion. #databs
huggingface.co/blog/dabstep
February 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
“Our company has moat”
The moat:
February 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
DeepSeek is not refusing the Tiananmen Square question, though it gets the answer wrong.
February 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Quote from December 2024. Not even a month later someone trains an open-source o1 model for under 500 bucks. Funny how fast LLM takes are outdated.
January 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"AI Chatbots are people my friend"
- Mark Zuckerberg, presidential candidate 2028
January 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
New Dutch tax regulations require me to have my own website. Trying to replicate the first page that I build years ago.
Under Construction, Page Counters and as many Gifs as possible of course. Also thinking about making a BS integration for a Guestbook. What else is essential for GeoCity aesthetic?
December 31, 2024 at 2:46 PM
How I envision BERT coming back after being called outdated
December 20, 2024 at 7:14 AM
One of my favourite useless applications of LLMs is thinking of a conceptual joke, that is not funny enough to actually conceptualise but still stuck in your head for a while.

Here’s a rewritten version of “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” with “data” and “SQL/sequel” as the focus:
December 19, 2024 at 9:42 AM
Anyone knows how this works? Is this just a gimmick or is there something more fundamental going on. If all input gets tokenised I don't see how it can 'get' these instructions
December 6, 2024 at 8:43 AM
December 4, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Also known as OIE (Once is Enough), PDC (Please don't copy), STOTO (Stick To One Time Only), RNB (Repeato No Bueno), ...
November 30, 2024 at 10:53 AM
November 28, 2024 at 12:31 PM
The other person when you say something stupid in the heat of the moment
November 28, 2024 at 10:09 AM
November 27, 2024 at 8:41 PM
I like all of Python's standard libraries #databs
November 18, 2024 at 1:18 PM
November 14, 2024 at 2:57 PM
I hope my friends never find out. #databs
November 13, 2024 at 12:12 PM