Karin Bryan

@mfordNZ Congratulations!!

Four years of grind on a PhD and all I got was this lousy pdf. So proud of my flat mate/wife who submitted her PhD today. Such an effort during several covid lockdowns and endless kids things.

Just off the chain.

Please join us in the Diving Deep: Forecasting Sea Surface Temperatures and Anomalies challenge! @ECMLPKDD #deeplearning @wimlds #climate #aotearoa

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

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

🍥 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 around both sides of the mountain. Friction slows down the layer of air in contact with the mountain more than the air further away, causing a spin in the flow that creates eddies/whirls. 🔄 These eddies alternate forming on either side of the mountain and continue to spin downstream over a huge distance before dissipating. If there are clouds at the right height like today, we can visualise this beautiful flow pattern.

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.

@cpaintingnz @icdugg Retweeted (although I am not sure I tweet to the right crowd!)

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.

What does this teach you about life?

PhD Opportunity (fully funded)! Work with @SarahMac485 at the @UCNZ 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

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…

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

Can removing #mangroves aid coastal restoraion? Check out our exciting new findings published in @NatureComms: rdcu.be/dq5Mi. Kudos to the amazing team: @KRB_CoastsRule, @cocoltrane, @MetronomeUU, Christian, Steve, and Barend. 🌿Don't miss the forest for the trees🌿

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

@johnburnhamshaw We used to do the building stone tour of downtown Toronto, all the bank headquarters had really fancy stone

I want to run an intro lab where students find a bunch of "granite" countertops and deduce the minerals and basic petrology. Even hi-res photos are hard for mineral id though. Anybody have any experience in this?

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.

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