Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org
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Senior lecturer at Edinburgh University and Zhejiang-Edinburgh Joint Institute (ZJE).
Undergraduate Programme Coordinator, Biomedical Informatics at ZJE.
I teach #imageanalysis & #dataanalysis with #RStats & #python.
My research is focused on how #heterogeneous behaviour in #pituitary (and other) cells shapes their function as a population.
I'm also very interested in #reproducibility and #openscience.
Joined Oct 2022
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204 Mastodon posts with the #PositConf2024 hashtag so far in my app! Search through them all here, on a Web page that includes NONE of today's advice on how to make Quarto docs or apps look nice 😅
https://apps.machlis.com/shiny/positconf/
@alastairmrushworth I'm surprised violin plots and swarm plots didn't make it in there. But as long as it's not barplots with error bars I'm happy 😀
@markjamesadams oh right, I did not realise that, I guess that makes slightly more sense although it still seems like a terrible move...
@markjamesadams I might be extremely naive but... what's the real selling point for Anaconda compared to other free and lighter alternatives like venv?
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Announcing Zotero 7, the biggest update in Zotero’s 18-year history
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Drawing: Possible causes of your problems. I've been appalled at the scenes we've witnessed over the last few days. It's utterly unacceptable that people should have to live in fear because of the colour of their skin.
[Polite comments only, please.]
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I wrote a thing about switching from Windows to Linux for music production. Not a step-by-step guide, but a bunch of (hopefully) helpful info and links for those who might be considering the switch. Will probably also be useful for those new to the whole computer music thing who are interested in Linux as a starting point.
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As a Blind person i never thought i would be on social media savoring photos. But the communal Mastodon alt text game is so strong that sweet, poetic or silly descriptions abound on my timeline. Thanks to legions of people who take time to write a meaningful description of the ephemera they post, i learn so much about insects, plants, buildings, memes — all dispatches from a dimension of the world that i otherwise wouldn't experience. If you're wondering whether anybody reads these things: YES.
@cybercow Hype and marketing, coupled with a general misunderstanding of how ML and AI work.
"Powered by AI" sells products faster, whether it's true or not that AI has something to do with the product, and whether it actually improved it in any way
"Arbaugh initially faced issues after his surgery when the tiny wires of his implant retracted, resulting in a sharp reduction in the electrodes that could measure brain signals. Reuters has reported *Neuralink was aware of this issue from its animal trials*. [...] Musk also said he has spoken with Donald Trump, who he has endorsed in the US presidential race, about forming a commission aimed at improving “government efficiency” through *reduced business regulation*, and would be willing to participate. Musk said that in his view US regulations hamper innovation."
Of course, ethical and safety considerations as usual are not in Elon Musk's book; nor is openness.
Brain computer interfaces are the last area where you want reduced regulation...
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Did you forget to write some slides? do you want something quick and easy? try using my new quarto revealjs plugin: loud
All text on slides are automatically centered and zoomed in to fill the screen
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"Our framework suggests that after accounting for heterogeneity, the probability that the tested hypothesis is true for the average population, design, and analysis path can be much lower than implied by nominal error rates of statistically significant individual studies."
#MetaSci #Methodology 🧪
Heterogeneity in effect size e...
@elduvelle well, it's unknown to me, as it's a small journal focussing on something I generally don't look at. However looking at the website it seems legit.
I've had emails in the past from really random, probably predatory journals asking for review, though (say an engineering journal asking for a review given my expertise in building cars or something :/ )
How do you folks deal with random invitations to #review for #journals you never heard of?
I usually just delete the email and not engage as usually these are random topics I have zero expertise in... today, however, I received a paper about something (kind of) related to some work I've done in the past. Reading the abstract I can already see very major issues with it so... should I put time and effort to prevent obviously bad work to be published? Or is this a battle not worth fighting?
@MCDuncanLab yeah I was a bit baffled by the stash of totes as well, although I did use to have a stash of plastic bags under the sink... However I'm fascinated by the marketing that goes around this.
@CrisLuengo right, that makes sense, thanks for clarifying!
Interesting article on "reusable" products
"An entire generation has been socialized to participate in environmentalism by way of consumerism"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/30/reusable-tote-bags
@CrisLuengo Thanks for raising that point. I have been thinking about this and I am wondering, though, wouldn't the same reasoning work for say, Sobel? Unless you threshold the gradient magnitude you are not really extracting edges by convoluting with a Sobel kernel.
Similarly, while the LoG is not per se an edge detector, finding its zero-crossings allows you to detect edges (indeed, you can also use LoG as a blob detector by finding its extrema).
So, is it just a question of semantics (LoG as a filter used in edge detection vs LoG as an edge detector), or is there more?
I am curious, as there is definitely a lot of literature saying that LoG is an edge detector.
New Python Shiny app for my image analysis course deployed!
This will accompany the lecture on edge detection methods.
https://apps.nicolaromano.net/EdgeDetection/
Source code is here, feel free to reuse!
https://github.com/nicolaromano/BIA4/tree/main/Apps/EdgeDetection
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Senior lecturer at Edinburgh University and Zhejiang-Edinburgh Joint Institute (ZJE).
Undergraduate Programme Coordinator, Biomedical Informatics at ZJE.
I teach #imageanalysis & #dataanalysis with #RStats & #python.
My research is focused on how #heterogeneous behaviour in #pituitary (and other) cells shapes their function as a population.
I'm also very interested in #reproducibility and #openscience.
Joined Oct 2022
