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mcderbyshire.bsky.social
Research project leader at Curtin University. Interested in plant breeding, agriculture, genetics, anything related to coding or mathematics. Proud dad. AI enthusiast. Downhill mountain biking, especially the jumps.
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In the midst of all the crazy things happening in the world, it has been nice to have a morning stroll through sunny Melbourne. Good for the soul. Feeling lucky.

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It was a pleasure presenting today. Had some really enjoyable and insightful discussions at day one of #GRDCUpdates, and saw many great talks. Looking forward to tomorrow.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Really looking forward to this event. Always great to see all the exciting grains R&D going on across the industry.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Something oddly satisfying about learning how large language models work from Google Gemini. It's also weirdly accurate on this topic. Lots of training data online and relatively simple algebra... or emergent narcissism?

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

This is an important and interesting preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2024... Any thoughts from people with neural network expertise? Papers describing these models often show plausibly that unsupervised training has learnt something about the data. Why is this no better than random for downstream tasks?

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

🚨Out now 🚨😎 Our latest paper published in @CommsBio led by the @jameskhane.bsky.social lab @theccdm.bsky.social shown the ⚖️balancing act of RIP vs negative selection in generating genetic diversity in a major🌾wheat fungal pathogen! Find out more! 👇👇👇

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A few years of practice later...

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So proud to say my uncle John Hawkins got an Order of Australia medal. Arriving as a child migrant, he became an important figure in ag, taking on the Australian Wheat Board to build a key market for growers. Full story here, requires Farm Weekly sub: www.farmweekly.com.au/story/887534...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Hi. I'm on Bluesky. What do you call Bluesky posts? Bleets? This is my first bleet.

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments