Wouter Kouw

Researcher working on robots, brains and robotbrains. Assistant Professor at TU Eindhoven / Research Associate at Sioux Technologies. He/him. @[email protected]

[MKoudahl @KoudahlM]

The final project of my PhD is out at last! A comprehensive version of active inference as pure message passing on graphs😎 You want freeform generative models? With epistemics? That are real fast? Direct policy inference instead of rollouts you say? We got em all right here

[Gonçalves Lab @GoncalvesLab]

Hiring twice, join us at @tudelft!
See thread for details/links.
- Postdoc/PhD: multimodal ML for molecular maps of human tissue in health & disease (@_hubmap).
- PhD: computational analysis of individual diversity in complex disease using cell "villages" of human donors (iCELL).

[Wouter Kouw @wmkouw]

@johannesbjerva @DetUngeAkademi @CompSciAAU @aautech @aalborg_uni Congratulations, Johannes!

[Work Chronicles @_workchronicles]

I'm busy.

[Bert de Vries @bertdv0]

We have an open PhD position on Bayesian Generative AI for Audio Processing at Eindhoven University of Technology https://t.co/LKhoIZVYKx

[eLife - the journal @eLife]

Our Board of Directors has issued a public statement of support today for eLife’s new publishing model. You can read the letter below. https://t.co/L20GZASpxP

[Stefan Sommer @stefanhsommer]

Update for our diffusion mean paper https://t.co/fzufHZgJtX w/ Benjamin Eltzner, Stephan Huckemann, Pernille Hansen. The diffusion mean generalizes the Euclidean mean value to geometric spaces by fitting Brownian motions to data.

[Bert de Vries @bertdv0]

We are proud to release RxInfer, https://t.co/NlKv8hxf4h, a Julia package for fast and scalable Bayesian inference in probabilistic models. This toolbox is very suited for fast online inference in freely definable non-linear state-space models. #ActiveInference #FEP #

[Wouter Kouw @wmkouw]

For those in and around Eindhoven: there is a #Julia meetup Sept 22nd 18:00-21:00 at High Tech Campus 5: https://t.co/r4aDVu58iF

The speakers are excellent.👌 These pro developers will be sharing their insights on picking up Julia and using it for serious projects. Come join us!

[ARCHIVED NASA Exoplanets @NASAExoplanets]

The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound. Here it's amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole!

[Machine Learning Section @UCPH @MLSectionUCPH]

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen @DIKU_Institut has three open positions in Machine Learning at Tenure Track Assistant / Associate / Full Professorship level.

Application deadline: 4 September 2022

#MachineLearning

[elvis @omarsar0]

Love this collection of exercises (with solutions) in machine learning.

This is useful material to strengthen mathematical skills.

paper: https://t.co/reOorM33XY
repo: https://t.co/7KGTb4RaRc

[Wouter Kouw @wmkouw]

We've got an exciting opening for a PhD student on developing a Bayesian intelligent autonomous system for robust wireless communication!🤖⚡️

It's a collaboration between Hamdi Joudeh of @ICTlabTUe and I. Come join us!

#BIASlab #ActiveInference

https://t.co/S6uQAnu5i7

[MKoudahl @KoudahlM]

Very happy with this! I believe moving towards constrained MaxEnt is a promising direction that can open up what we can do with the FEP as a modelling tool... Also, holy **** I'm in great company :D

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

Controversial opinion: AI doesn’t work anywhere near as well in most practical applications as people have promised it does, and so research activity is shifting to applications like joke interpretation and art where the assessment of performance is more subjective.

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

There are two kinds of AI researchers, those who care deeply about how natural intelligence works, and those who think that they don’t need to, so long as they have enough data and compute.

[Giovanni Pezzulo @GiovanniPezzulo]

Our new book on Active Inference, with Thomas Parr and Karl Friston, is now available in both print and open access formats: https://t.co/xAxYP3jJeH

[Pablo Lanillos (🤖🧠) @PLanillos]

Doing my best 😅 to explain for the general audience the https://t.co/RkWpiwqaqw project at the #BrainAwarenessWeek at @AI_Radboud
🎥📲
https://t.co/2zObnDji8U

#informal #science #outreach @DondersInst @HumanBrainProj

[Cassio de Campos @cassiopc]

What about joining us in Eindhoven for UAI 2022 in the first week of August? Send your proposal for a tutorial and/or workshop, still a few days left! https://t.co/BMKnAmzwSL please DM me (or other chairs) if you have any questions (RTs are appreciated :-))

[Wouter Kouw @wmkouw]

Next week Friday (feb 11), prof. Regina Luttge will talk about our upcoming BayesBrain project (online event, sign-up here: https://t.co/SiMoADXH1C).

In BayesBrain, we will connect an in-silico Active Inference agent to a Brain-on-Chip! 🧠🔌⚡️Come see her to hear more!