Ben Jourdan

TCS PhD student @ Edinburgh

[Ben Jourdan @Jourdan_Ben]

Presenting my paper on Dynamic Graph Clustering at #ICML tomorrow. Lots of extensions to explore. Come say hi!
Poster #4300, Thursday from 10:30am
https://t.co/tULVjzwCmL

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Top of the spotlights too! https://t.co/uF6TyN5xv3

[Ben Jourdan @Jourdan_Ben]

Couldn't imagine I would be contributing to something like this a year ago. It taught me a lot about the challenges of computational neuroscience, as well as how classical methods can still shine even today. In awe of those who push the frontiers.

https://t.co/9PETvFd4wz

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New post! https://t.co/zAe4VuqaD4

I go over what sampling trees are and how they work, why floating point values can be evil and how to mitigate their effects on sampling trees, and finally a couple of tips on implementation optimisations. I'll add benchmarks in the future.

[Ben Jourdan @Jourdan_Ben]

Let me know if I've missed anything or misunderstood something. I wrote this to help myself understand what was going on.... and as an excellent form of thesis procrastination.

[Ben Jourdan @Jourdan_Ben]

Why the UK is forced to send F-35 parts to Israel

TLDR: We are forced to send F-35 spare parts to Israel until 2051. There's almost nothing we can do about it.

https://t.co/8pnxfEcxDJ

[Ben Jourdan @Jourdan_Ben]

The only alternative appears to be leaving the F-35 development programme which would be catastrophic for our defence industry and security.

Through a lack of foresight and cost cutting it seems we have given up a massive amount of strategic autonomy to America.

[Ben Jourdan @Jourdan_Ben]

We present two algorithms for massively speeding up cell typing in the fly brain. One needs a small amount of labelled data while the other is completely unsupervised. We hope this will help labelling future Connectomes!

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Neuroscience?
https://t.co/xrcST19at4

(I only accept partial blame for the title)

[Ben Jourdan @Jourdan_Ben]

Got version 0 of my latest side project going:

If you want to configure a feature extraction pipeline as a DAG, using the same structs/enums you use for deserialization, this may eventually be useful (maybe).

❤️ to (https://t.co/RqsaBrOYyN)
and @PlayTheProcess

#Rust

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@LivFaustDieJung Could help with controlling deer populations up in Scotland if you want to keep a rifle.

[Ben Jourdan @Jourdan_Ben]

@LivFaustDieJung Snax Cafe

[Ben Jourdan @Jourdan_Ben]

@EdAcadSport @RFAFives @edinburghacad @Fettes_Sport Well done! Glad to see the trophy back at EA!

[Ben Jourdan @Jourdan_Ben]

@LivFaustDieJung The cynic in me believes this is a rather revolting attempt to reinvent himself. Many outside the UK forgot how much corruption follows him around, especially in regard to russian money. Seeing him take the credit is pretty sickening. He's literally been in bed with oligarchs...

[Daphne Tolis @daphnetoli]

“While many kvetched about Ukraine ignoring tactical formations as they sent ammo depot after ammo depot
into low earth orbit, Russia began to struggle.” Thread by @LivFaustDieJung https://t.co/7Yl1vuN8Ec

[Ben Jourdan @Jourdan_Ben]

@campbellclaret Here's a new labour policy: Radical Transparency. The people can't trust the government's word. We need a bit of verification to go with our trust. One example: FOI requests that simply call databases should become automated within a month of the first request.

[Ben Jourdan @Jourdan_Ben]

@RestIsPolitics @campbellclaret @RoryStewartUK What would a Radical Transparency bill look like? And how on earth do you get the government of the day to pass it? Example points could include:
1. Digitising everything that could be subject to a FOI for easy (and automated) access
2. Publish tax returns like Norway

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@edinburghacad https://t.co/MQrw2CJLug

[The RFA @RFAFives]

We're off at the Nationals. No major upsets but Boyd playing exceptionally vs DT. Best u18 ever in the nats?