Thijs van der Plas
@vdplasthijs
Post doc research associate @ Alan Turing Institute. Interested in AI-driven biodiversity monitoring, ML, comp neuro, coding & cycling.
Very happy that work with @DGAlexander84 & co on mapping high-res land cover in the @peakdistrict has now been published! Our ML method was able to map small and rare habitats, creating new possibilities for spatially explicit biodiversity restoration:🧵 mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/2…
Great article from @turinginst covering our recent work on land cover mapping in the Peak District, thank you!
❓ How is AI empowering habitat mapping? Learn about this brilliant use of AI for the environment, with the Turing, @CranfieldUni & @PeakDistrict. 🌐 Why AI? 🌱 Environmental impact 🖇️ Collaborative working 📖 bit.ly/3w7UOmk #AI #AiForGood #Conservation #TuringImpact
All right I'm attempting the move to Blue Sky too, find me at bsky.app/profile/vdplas… (Btw, the Chrome extension 'Sky Follower Bridge' is useful for finding the bluesky-accounts of people you follow on twitter.)
2024 physics laureate Geoffrey Hinton used a network developed by his co-laureate John Hopfield as the foundation for a new network: the Boltzmann machine. This can learn to recognise characteristic elements in a given type of data. The Boltzmann machine can be used to classify…
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The perfect tweeprint format: a double dactyl! Very insightful work, much food for (combinatorial) thought. Congratulations @BakermansJJW & co!
PS. A little easter egg for those that made it to the end of this thread (or the paper's method section): a double dactyl (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_da…) poem summary of the paper's main ideas. Thanks for reading! 10/10
We are delighted to be offering a PhD studentship in partnership with @sheffielduni philosophy department. The project: understanding landscape change Full details... 👉 bit.ly/CDA_Projects Expressions of interest by 26 April. @WRoCAH #Careers #Studentship #PeakDistrict
Are you excited about neural mechanisms of working memory, and could fill a short postdoc vacancy in Oxford? jobs.ac.uk/job/CXK511/pos…
First reviewed preprint published under eLife's new model. Posted to biorXiv Nov 21st. Reviewed preprint posted 2 months later. Looks like a paper. Authors can choose to answer the reviewers and have it updated. Or leave it. Here it is. A Revolution: elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr…
Models such as Stable Diffusion are trained on copyrighted, trademarked, private, and sensitive images. Yet, our new paper shows that diffusion models memorize images from their training data and emit them at generation time. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2301.13188 👇[1/9]