Giles HarperDonnelly

Doing ML in Taipei

Formerly PhD Student, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

[Giles HarperDonnelly @GilesHD]

@WiringTheBrain @BenSteventon2 Precisely. And to make things more complicated their solutions to this problem need to be coordinated across the embryo.

It’s seems likely that it’s better for everyone to be a little off the mark together than for 95% to get it right but 5% to be stubbornly wrong.

[Giles HarperDonnelly @GilesHD]

Brilliant to see Marr getting some love in Developmental Biology!

I firmly believe that levels of analysis have a really important role to play in our understanding of developmental systems. So much so that I dedicate 2 chapters of my thesis to the topic https://t.co/0D2zuHUSkX

[James Briscoe @briscoejames]

Our latest: We explore how cells interpret morphogen gradients during development using optimal control theory

A thread explaining some of the ideas 🧵

https://t.co/ICG3IxEV5H

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[Kevin Patrick Murphy @sirbayes]

The trilogy is complete! My "Advanced Topics" book is officially released today. Buy it on Amazon, or get it for free at https://t.co/yWK8zMbMRA.

[Kevin Patrick Murphy @sirbayes]

I am delighted to announce the release of “dynamax”, an open source library for dynamic state space models in JAX. It supports inference and learning in HMMs, Linear Gaussian SSMs, as well as non-linear and non-Gaussian SSMs. See https://t.co/XQY1NHrdkN

[Kevin Patrick Murphy @sirbayes]

I am delighted to announce that the camera-ready version of my new book, "Machine Learning: Advanced Topics", is finally available online for free at https://t.co/XjR3nnLtOI (@mitpress will publish the hard copy in 2023.)

[Wessel @ikwess]

@CambridgeMLG is launching a blog, featuring a first two-part post about what keeps a Bayesian awake at night by Richard E. Turner and me. 🧵

https://t.co/Gs8MhzAp6L

[Giles HarperDonnelly @GilesHD]

As today, Nov. 20th, is his birthday it's a great opportunity for my favourite math joke:

What does the 'B' in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stand for?

...

Benoit B. Mandelbrot

[Hugh Brechin @HughRBrechin]

One can only hope.

[Giles HarperDonnelly @GilesHD]

@theosysbio Sorry it's chapter VIII (The Partial Differential Equation of Hamilton-Jacobi).

[Giles HarperDonnelly @GilesHD]

@theosysbio From the intro of chapter VII of Variational Principles of Mechanics.
He even opens the chapter with the quote:
"Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground"
Exodus III, 5.
🔥🔥🔥

[Giles HarperDonnelly @GilesHD]

@jdenavascues @lmgtfy Great teaching opportunity. Very valuable to learn that, particularly when it comes to software, everyone googles everything all the time! It is easy early in your journey to worry that googling is somehow "not the proper way" to find these things out. Quite the opposite!

[HAE @HenryPolarBears]

I wrote an article about what I’ve been working on for years! Please have a read! @ConversationUK #polarbears https://t.co/2lOGCsW4PZ

[Giles HarperDonnelly @GilesHD]

@anishmadan23 @YugeTen For me chrome doesn't load the equations and complains about trying to load mathjax over http rather than https. Firefox works fine though so maybe give that a try :)

[Giles HarperDonnelly @GilesHD]

@nmoris @OatesLab @ELS_CellBiology @ZebrafishRock @Sundar_Ram_07 @AOates1 Seems to work for me. https://t.co/D7iKmNSHoo

[Giles HarperDonnelly @GilesHD]

@da40cambs I don't have anything to compare it to, but I find it great!

[Giles HarperDonnelly @GilesHD]

@swairshah @rc_reding @JuliaLanguage Such a shame this isn't more widely advertised! The beginner experience experience is really harmed by to have to discover it by googling "Why is my Julia start up time so slow?".

[Giles HarperDonnelly @GilesHD]

@robert_stagg @_mvdm The uncertainty surrounding numbers like this is one of many good reasons not to be too hasty when interpreting these daily numbers. It is considerably too early to be trying to determine whether a social-distancing effect started 2 or 2.5 weeks ago.

[Government Office for Science @uksciencechief]

The evidence feeding into the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies #SAGE is now live. This is supporting the government response to #COVID19 https://t.co/Ya9VYyIVeu

[Giles HarperDonnelly @GilesHD]

@davisjmcc A Mathematician's Apology is wonderful and surprisingly poignant.