Nelson Castro

Fibre optic networks • ML @AstonUniversity
Ex-intern at MSR

[Gabriela de Queiroz @gdequeiroz]

A small request for conference season: please stop letting Claude design all your slides. We can tell. They all look the same.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence.

[Nelson Castro @NJosueCastro]

@miniapeur Good luck!

[Zarathustra @zarathustra5150]

Virtuoso musicians talk about this all the time. When he was coming up, Steve Vai’s alternate-picking was a comparative weak spot, so he religiously drilled scales & runs to a metronome 8–12 hours a day for years. Eventually he realized that no matter how much he practiced, his alternate picking would never be as fast & clean as Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Yngwie Malmsteen, et al., so he leaned into legato technique, tapping, and his quirky "angular" style (his comparative strengths), and the rest is history.

[TRANSNET @transnet_pgm]

Our friends and colleagues from @AstonPhotonics have a long list of sessions at ICTON 2025 this week in Barcelona! If you're attending, make sure not to miss them - including an invited talk from TRANSNET's Stylianos Sygletos with Nelson Castro https://t.co/yAitk7ziUI

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

[Bastian Grossenbacher-Rieck @Pseudomanifold]

New blog post on overcoming academic impostor syndrome. This arose from great discussions during our group retreat, and I decided to make it publicly available in the hope of providing some utility to #academia. #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

https://t.co/rPBWkTW2zx

[Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies @AstonPhotonics]

A week ago, we celebrated Prof. Nick Doran’s 75th birthday and his extraordinary 40-year contribution to the field of nonlinear fibre optics. The event was an amazing opportunity to reconnect with former colleagues, collaborators, and friends from the UK and beyond. ✨

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

it appears your low-hanging-fruit-project-in-case-my-big-project-doesnt-work-and-I-have-to-graduate wasn’t so risk free after all, mr. bond

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Actually, this is fat-tailed.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

In science and engineering, I feel like having a sense of aesthetics is dramatically more useful than being marginally more intelligent

[Lauren Wilford @lauren_wilford]

big secret to happiness is just liking stuff. finding more stuff to like. finding ways to like stuff you didn’t before. recognizing what it feels like to like something and doubling down on that. what feels frivolous is actually the whole ballgame

[James Clear @JamesClear]

Boredom is a filter. Common ideas come before it. Uncommon ideas come after it. Sit with a project long enough to get bored with it, then sit a little more. The most useful insights bubble up after you get bored.

[Nelson Castro @NJosueCastro]

@OdedRechavi the anguish is so real 😭

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

Do it until you hate it and then automate it

[TRANSNET @transnet_pgm]

Our student researcher @NJosueCastro is another poster presenter @TopConference_ highlighting his research on reducing the complexities of the equaliser in Wavelength Division Multiplexing systems!

#fibre #optics #research

[Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies @AstonPhotonics]

💡Funded #PhD studentships are available at #AstonPhotonics, @AstonEPS, covering various topics related to #photonics:

💡 Discover more about the projects: https://t.co/ZPwZT1neSD
🖊 Register your interest and apply here: https://t.co/eGhf66bvzR

[François Chollet @fchollet]

The skills needed for developing new ML techniques have little overlap with the skills needed for applying ML effectively. A bit like how chip design has little overlap with software engineering.

[Im(Sergei K. Turitsyn) @im_sergei]

Stelios' slides by Nelson. Superchannel.

[Christian Häger @C_Haeger]

📢 I am #hiring! #PhDposition in #MachineLearning for Information and Communication Technology #ICT, focusing on Integrated #Sensing and #Fiber #Communications.

📅 Deadline: March 3, 2024 (Applications are reviewed continuously)

More info: https://t.co/F70KMWclvA