Prof Mick Thacker (@dibbygibby) 's Twitter Profile
Prof Mick Thacker

@dibbygibby

tries to be intelligent - occasionally succeeds ! (if when twitter dies you can find me on mastodon [email protected])

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calendar_today15-01-2010 13:41:48

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Fish Legal (@fishlegal_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAKING: THIS IS BIG! Judgement today in our judicial review with Pickering Fishery Association against Defra UK and Environment Agency. WE WON!🎉 In one of the most significant UK rulings affecting water protection policy in years. Welcome to your new role Steve Barclay. A mega thread... 🧵

BREAKING: THIS IS BIG! Judgement today in our judicial review with <a href="/pickeringfish/">Pickering Fishery Association</a> against <a href="/DefraGovUK/">Defra UK</a> and <a href="/EnvAgency/">Environment Agency</a>.

WE WON!🎉

In one of the most significant UK rulings affecting water protection policy in years.

Welcome to your new role <a href="/SteveBarclay/">Steve Barclay</a>.

A mega thread... 🧵
Maxwell Ramstead (@mjdramstead) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Stanhope AI continues to be one of the coolest players in the AI space and a genuine thought leader in active inference based AI applications in industry

Prof Mick Thacker (@dibbygibby) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Anyone who has had online communication with me over the last eight years will have heard our loud lovely boy Otto - sadly after a short illness we had to have him put down, we are devastated - there is now a huge void in our life but so many great memories - go well mate

Anyone who has had online
communication with me over the last eight years will have heard  our loud lovely boy Otto - sadly after a short illness we had to have him put down, we are devastated - there is now a huge void in our life but so many great memories - go well mate
Annina Schmid (@anninabschmid) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Do you have a basic science background and are interested in doing a PhD at Oxford University? Fully funded UK studentship available for 2025 intake to study the role of B-cells in human neuropathic pain To apply please see here: lnkd.in/e9P4rqkm

Michael Levin (@drmichaellevin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The official paper is out - Chris Fields and I on the origin of life: tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10… "We argue here that the Origin of Life (OOL) problem is not just a chemistry problem but is also, and primarily, a cognitive science problem. When interpreted through the lens of the

Maxwell Ramstead (@mjdramstead) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I’m happy to share the new Noumenal Labs preprint, “Dynamic Markov blanket detection for macroscopic physics discovery,” by Jeff Beck and me arxiv.org/abs/2502.21217: Here’s a thread! This paper resolves a key outstanding issue in the literature on the free energy principle

Maxwell Ramstead (@mjdramstead) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New blog post by Noumenal Labs: “WTF is the FEP? A short explainer on the free energy principle”: noumenal.ai/post/wtf-is-th… Really happy to share this one! We discuss the free energy principle: What it is, what it is not, what promise it holds, why it can be extremely useful, and

Maxwell Ramstead (@mjdramstead) 's Twitter Profile Photo

To all those interested in the free energy principle and active inference: I'm thrilled to announce that I will be hosting a monthly Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on the free energy principle, active inference, and Bayesian mechanics. The event will be open to all 1/2

Maxwell Ramstead (@mjdramstead) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The date of our inaugural AMA session will be announced shortly, and it will feature Karl Friston himself as a special guest! 2/2

Matt Fillingim (@fillingimmatt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thrilled to share our new paper in Nature Human Behaviour! nature.com/articles/s4156… We show that combining biological 🧬 and psychosocial 📋 data offers a much stronger, more reliable path to predicting pain and diagnosis. 🧵

Thrilled to share our new paper in <a href="/NatureHumBehav/">Nature Human Behaviour</a>!

 nature.com/articles/s4156…

We show that combining biological 🧬 and psychosocial 📋 data offers a much stronger, more reliable path to predicting pain and diagnosis. 🧵
Maxwell Ramstead (@mjdramstead) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New blog post by Noumenal Labs: “Applying the free energy principle: Does the FEP stand on its own?”: noumenal.ai/post/applying-… Here’s the tl;dr: • In this blog post, we discuss the application of the free energy principle (FEP) to model real-world data-generating systems. Our

Maxwell Ramstead (@mjdramstead) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The premiere session of our new monthly Ask Me Anything series on the FEP, active inference, and Bayesian mechanics will be live-streamed on the new Noumenal Labs YouTube channel on May 30th at 12:30 PM EST and will feature special guest Karl Friston: youtube.com/@noumenal_labs

Hadi Vafaii (@hadivafaii) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📜 preprint : arxiv.org/pdf/2410.19315 💾 code : github.com/hadivafaii/Ite… Before we dive into details, let me share this ear candy with you : 🧠Reproducing the Nobel-prize winning Hubel & Wiesel experiment using a model "neuron" during inference👇 🧵[2/n]