Work on how brains do vision and how we can use that knowledge to develop better vision tests and treatments. (He/him)
Auckland, New Zealand
Joined June 2011
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Lisa Hamm's movies ensure children can name our new eye-chart symbols (designed to better detect kids' vision problems). Thanks @CureKidsNZ
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BREAKING: The future of object detection is here!
Meet YOLO-NAS, open-sourced YOLO-based architecture redefining state-of-the-art in object detection.
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By far the best discussion I have read -- shows how to really test GPT-3,4: On Artifice and Intelligence by Shlomi Sher link.medium.com/Di4ChhP0czb
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I described some of the most beautiful and famous mathematical theorems to Midjourney.
Here is how it imagined them:
1. "The set of real numbers is uncountably infinite."
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FrACT (Freiburg Vision Tests) now also as a WebApp. This magically avoids installing, yet you get a full app. (Nearly) all platforms! And remains free.
michaelbach.de/fract/#webApp
ALT Icon of FrACT
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Tiny urban forests can help #rewild urban settings and fight #climatechange. The brainchild of the Japanese botanist Miyawaki he's taking his idea global.
We have so many solutions. Let's stop the delays and implement them. #ActOnClimate
#climateaction #climate #forests #nature
I kind of assumed that a big driver of @elonmusk’s recent behaviour was generation of public engagement in issues relating to twitter. Banning journos stifles debate and indicates that this not so. #byebyetwitter @[email protected]
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Remarkable visualization of primate brains.
From @PatFri3drich and coworkers doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage…
ALT Primate brains depicted at the same scale, with the large human brain at top left and tiny gray mouse lemur at bottom left. From Pat Friedrich and coworkers 2021 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117685
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The Russo Brothers have shared new AI-generated art depicting an #Avengers movie directed by Wes Anderson... More photos: thedirect.com/article/russo-…
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Some thoughts on yesterday’s @neuralink “show and tell” from an ethics & society perspective 🧵 1/
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I made Thanksgiving dinner and now the kids are crying and I'm not allowed to help anymore
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⚡2D to Simulate 3D: Made that legendary Rubik's Cube even easier to Understand ⚡
The legendary Rubik's Cube made even easier to understand
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I asked #Galactica about some things I know about and I'm troubled. In all cases, it was wrong or biased but sounded right and authoritative. I think it's dangerous. Here are a few of my experiments and my analysis of my concerns. (1/9)
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BREAKING: University Of Stirling Students Union Votes To Go 100% Plant-Based.
@GeorgeMonbiot said it was "leading the way in tackling the climate crisis and creating a sustainable food system”
animalrebellion.org/george-m…
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one time in college a professor spent 90 minutes talking about an example scenario that involved beef and i thought nothing of it until several weeks later when i found out that my classmate had made a minute long compilation of all 125 times he said "beef" in one lecture
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This is great - circles are fleetingly there in your peripheral vision. But you can't attend to them
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