Many thanks! Glory belongs to Waikato Coast Marine Group! Thanks, Hackathon! linkedin.com/posts/zhanchao…

Fairly surprised to see this in @nature - nature.com/articles/d4158… whereas it’s slowly starting to be acknowledged that #calcification cannot be considered as #sequestration and #bluecarbon (see next) - maybe I get her work wrong (little explanation in this article) 1/2

nature.com/articles/d4158… Advice for writing proposals from a NZ friend Dr Mireille Consalvey who has advised on Marsden Fund proposals for 13 years.

Zhanchao’s paper is out:Scaling up benthic primary productivity estimates in a large intertidal estuary using remote sensing in Science of the Total Environment..including a new method to detect seagrass % coverage and sandflat distribution using Sentinel-2 and machine learning.

Surprising. Astounding. Staggering. Unnerving. Bewildering. Flabbergasting. Disquieting. Gobsmacking. Shocking. Mind boggling.

Can removing #mangroves aid coastal restoraion? Check out our exciting new findings published in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/dq5Mi. Kudos to the amazing team: Karin Bryan, coco, Metronome, Christian, Steve, and Barend. 🌿Don't miss the forest for the trees🌿

Thank you BU Experts for making these cute and vivid cards for our work. Absolutely love them 🩷

Crystal clear waters, abundant kaimoana, flourishing seabirds and a thriving blue economy... This is the picture painted by Te Āhua o Tīkapa Moana 2173 / The State of Hauraki Gulf 2173, showing what the future of the Gulf could be if action is taken now. gulfjournal.org.nz/2023/11/the-st…

PhD Opportunity (fully funded)! Work with Sarah_McSweeney at the University of Canterbury on the 'Assessing the impacts of relative sea level rise and sediment delivery on New Zealand’s estuaries'. Here are a few links: profiles.canterbury.ac.nz/Sarah-McSweeney profiles.canterbury.ac.nz/James-Brasingt… canterburywaves.co.nz

What does this teach you about life?

Have you ever done a dense grid search over neural network hyperparameters? Like a *really dense* grid search? It looks like this (!!). Blueish colors correspond to hyperparameters for which training converges, redish colors to hyperparameters for which training diverges.

Nobel Prize winning psychologist, a pioneer in behavioral economics and psychology of judgment and decision-making, dies at age 90. RIP, Daniel Kahneman (1934-2024). 10 timeless wisdom from one of the greatest psychologist in history 🧵

(0/25) Here's a list of 25 YC companies that have trained their own AI models. Reading through these will give you a good sense of what the near future will look like.

🍥 This hypnotic wind-flow pattern continues for hundreds of kilometres from its source at Mt Taranaki - Von Kármán vortices! 💫 "Vortices" is the arguably cooler-sounding plural of "vortex" which refers to some rotating fluid/air. 🗻 Here we see the southerly wind splitting

🧵 Student evaluation of teaching ratings and student learning are not (!!!) related. Source: doi.org/10.1016/j.stue… (1/4) #AcademicTwitter #University #AcademicChatter

Moving in to my new office as professor at Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland.

Please join us in the Diving Deep: Forecasting Sea Surface Temperatures and Anomalies challenge! ECML PKDD #deeplearning Women+ in ML/DS #climate #aotearoa

Just off the chain.