Steven Dakin

Work on how brains do vision and how we can use that knowledge to develop better vision tests and treatments. (He/him)

[Steven Dakin @StevenDakin]

Lisa Hamm's movies ensure children can name our new eye-chart symbols (designed to better detect kids' vision problems). Thanks @CureKidsNZ

[Steven Dakin @StevenDakin]

@DrGBuckingham Impressive esp when you literally have a webcam for a head

[Steven Dakin @StevenDakin]

This is excellent advice.

[Will Harrison @willjharrison]

Found your ideal postdoc lab but they’re not hiring? Get in touch anyway and introduce yourself. Ask if there are grants in the works you could contribute to, suggest writing a grant together, & ask about independent fellowship opportunities at the uni/city/state/country level.

[Steven Dakin @StevenDakin]

@MyopicSquid Are you in there now?

[Shubham Saboo @Saboo_Shubham_]

BREAKING: The future of object detection is here!

Meet YOLO-NAS, open-sourced YOLO-based architecture redefining state-of-the-art in object detection.

[Steven Dakin @StevenDakin]

@robsek My guess would be that @geoffreyhinton is concerned by the unexpected set of abilities exhibited by latest chatgpt (e.g. passing “theory of mind��� tests) which is shocking given the architecture.

[Patricia Churchland @patchurchland]

By far the best discussion I have read -- shows how to really test GPT-3,4: On Artifice and Intelligence by Shlomi Sher https://t.co/Q1zeEXcj1J

[Tivadar Danka @TivadarDanka]

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."

[Steven Dakin @StevenDakin]

@patrickmineault So GPT4 is less consistent than people are at judging if grandmothers are more similar to wednesdays or to thermostats? Is that task really probing common sense or our ability to answer a stupid question?

[Michael Bach @MichaelBach99]

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.
https://t.co/0FG1uYgvBs

[Steven Dakin @StevenDakin]

@neuralengine Science here has been chronically under-funded compared to the UK/US - this is amazing (and quite unexpected) news.

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

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

[Steven Dakin @StevenDakin]

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]

[Steven Dakin @StevenDakin]

@willjharrison Or possibly: "Subthreshold summation"

[Steven Dakin @StevenDakin]

@willjharrison Gain. Control.

[John Hawks @johnhawks]

Remarkable visualization of primate brains.

From @PatFri3drich and coworkers https://t.co/ZbMtI8u2ge

[MCU - The Direct @MCU_Direct]

The Russo Brothers have shared new AI-generated art depicting an #Avengers movie directed by Wes Anderson... More photos: https://t.co/CA43shYW4e

[Anna Wexler @anna_wexler]

Some thoughts on yesterday’s @neuralink “show and tell” from an ethics & society perspective 🧵 1/

[Michael Bethke @[email protected] @Bethkem]

I made Thanksgiving dinner and now the kids are crying and I'm not allowed to help anymore

[Steven Dakin @StevenDakin]

@AndrewHaun3 @hashtagcpt (when it’s big i get corners shimmering, when it’s big i get the Gabors)

[Steven Dakin @StevenDakin]

@AndrewHaun3 @hashtagcpt Make the image smaller Taylor.