Dan Stowell

@mclduk

Audio and machine learning research, especially birdsong.

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Joined March 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jan 18

    Announcing a big move! I'm moving to the Netherlands, to become Associate Professor of AI & Biodiversity at & . I'm really excited to build something new with AI & biodiversity as the heart of it, and to work at TWO great places. Plus... the Netherlands!

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  2. Jan 20

    Who out there is using DVC (Data Version Control) to keep track of machine learning experiments? Looks handy.

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    Jan 18

    Great job opportunity to work as a data scientist at the brand new Octopus Centre for Net-zero. One of the main projects will be building a data-driven simulation of the energy system, using a modern software stack. Applications close on 24 Jan:

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  4. Jan 18

    Want to know how to livestream environment soundscapes? Tech workshop next week by Acoustic Commons:

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    Jan 15

    Would your music go well with swans? What about colour-changing robot swans? have a £1500 arranging fee for a UK based early-career electronic musician to create a soundtrack for a floating installation - deadline 29 Jan. Full info here:

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    Jan 17

    A nice map of how the number 99 is expressed in Europe's languages, not least as it highlights how, er, unique Danish is ("ni og halvfems" literally translates as "nine and half-fives")

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    Jan 15

    My favourite public speaking tip: you can pause for longer than you think.

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  8. Jan 15

    Yo deep learning / machine vision researchers, think object detection is basically solved? Try this one: train against our dataset of UK solar panels, then detect all these Indian solar panels as they pop up. Anyone reckon they can do it? /cc

    Indian government offers $4.7bn in subsidy for solar water pumps and other onsite solar for farms, to reduce the $15bn annual cost of subsidising power to agriculture. 31GW of solar for farms expected by 2023. From .
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    Jan 14

    A very nice article about feedback loops in music recommendation. My two main take home messages: (1) "if you want to diversify your listening, you’ll have to put more effort into music discovery rather than allowing the system to do it for you" 1/2

    Interview with me and published in Wired: How to break out of your Spotify feedback loop and find new music
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    Jan 12

    "I've made a living out of making meals from thin air and hope - but you can't, you literally can't" has expressed their outrage at the food parcels which have been sent to families as part of the free school meals scheme. |

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    Jan 12

    The Chartwells/Compass free school meals package scandal is a teachable moment about capitalism. 1/ Why do so many families need free school meals? Because real wages have stagnated while profits soared...

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    Jan 11

    Some takeaways from 's impressive recent progress, including GPT-3, CLIP, and DALL·E: [THREAD] 👇1/

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    Jan 12

    Making noise WORKS. Schools seem to be able to opt out of the boxes and I’ve heard from quite a few this morning already who are GOING BACK TO THE VOUCHERS. Sometimes this hellsite can be used for good, so please keep exposing the corruption of the Free School Meals ‘hampers’.

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  14. Jan 12

    Post-doctoral researcher in "Machine Translation for sign and oral languages" at , Netherlands:

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  15. Jan 11

    "With a government this bad in charge of the UK during Covid, how do we respond?" - I'm sharing this article because the final paragraph offers a good, concise recipe to answer that question:

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    Jan 11
    Replying to

    The real cost must be far higher than this. So it's both a moronic line by the TPA, and obviously wrong. One of the most destructive forces in Britain. Actually makes me patriotically angry how much they damage our country.

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  17. Jan 11

    "This breakbeat does not exist":

    "NeuralFunk": A WaveGAN model trained on 5000 vintage drum loops
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  18. Jan 10

    She's right:

    Replying to @LucyLyons
    signal
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    Jan 8

    I've received several DMs from friends asking what do to about parents/family members who believe misinformation regarding the election, vaccines and COVID. Here's a research-based thread to help explain the roots of these beliefs and how to (and how *not* to) address them. 1/

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    Jan 7

    Here's a reason: I use it every day and I'm not dead yet.

    Replying to @Snowden @signalapp
    do we really trust signal? cause i see zero reason to.
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