Michael Biehl

Kennedy Withdraws U.S. Funding Pledge to International Vaccine Agency

Mass murderer.

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World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

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If AI can’t explain its decisions, how can we trust it?

Explainability isn’t a luxury — it’s a foundation for transparency, accountability, and human oversight.

XAI isn’t optional. It’s essential.

#XAI #AIUnpacked #ExplainableAI #ResponsibleAI

Show Your Stripes Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

showyourstripes.info/l/europe/ger...

Explainable machine learning for movement disorders - Classification of tremor and myoclonus Treatment for essential tremor (ET) and cortical myoclonus (CM) differs. As their clinical distinction can be difficult, with large inter- and intra-o…

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Open Access publication on explainable #MachineLearning in movement disorders, a collaboration
of the Expertise Center at @umcgroningen.bsky.social
and Intelligent Systems at the Bernoulli Institue
@rug.nl

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dear Machine Learners. I am very worried about the current #AI #hype: once people realize how un-intelligent, costly, and useless LLMs are and how questionable #genAI is, they will probably project onto serious #ML and discredit all our work. Any idea how to prevent being thrown into the same pot?

After submission, it took almost a year with 4 (four!) rounds of insignificant minor revisions requested by 6 (six!) different reviewers (new ones in every round!). Academic publishing - you got to love it.

Explainable machine learning for movement disorders - Classification of tremor and myoclonus Treatment for essential tremor (ET) and cortical myoclonus (CM) differs. As their clinical distinction can be difficult, with large inter- and intra-o…

Our work on
Explainable Machine Learning for Movement Disorders
a collaboration of the Expertise Center Movement Disorders at @umcgroningen.bsky.social and the Intelligent Systems group at the Bernoulli Institue @rug.nl
is now available online (open access):
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Imho it is time to break away from the AI hype and get serious again. I'm afraid it's too late to reclaim the (old) term Artificial Intelligence for reasonable use. Maybe we should give in and leave the term to the LLM, genAI and AGI crowd, to "big tech" and the media.

#machinelearning #AI #hype

1. I study how science works as a collective endeavor to make sense of the physical world.

I also study how misinformation about science spreads and affects society.

There are fewer examples more poignant than a Minnesota bill that would criminalize mRNA vaccines as weapons of mass destruction.

Three contributions to the
European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN 2025) are available online:

doi.org/10.14428/esa...
doi.org/10.14428/esa...
doi.org/10.14428/esa...

www.esann.org

Statue of Tommie Smith and Juan Carlos on the podium at the 1968 Olympic Games, gloved fists raise in silent protest.

Mr. Trump, this statute at the National Museum of African American History and Culture does not "undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States".

It does not "fosters a sense of national shame."

It does not "advance a corrosive ideology."

It is literally what might redeem the USA.

No, Trump has destroyed America in the eyes of the world.

Wir hatten uns daran gewöhnt, das Weltgeschehen,auch die Kriege, wie aus einer Theaterloge zu betrachten, anschließend nach Hause zu gehen und vor dem Schlafen gehen noch ein Glas Wein zu trinken.Der Verrat von Trump und Vance macht uns - hoffentlich - klar, dass das Theaterstück unsere Realität ist

Eine Schande

Ein Wahlbrief zur Bundestagswahl wird in einen Postbriefkasten eingeworfen

Höchste Eisenbahn! #bundestagswahl

Trump falsely claims Ukraine started war with Russia | CNN Politics After top US and Russian officials began peace talks without Ukrainians at the negotiating table, President Donald Trump criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and continued to repeat Russi...

Trump: „You (Ukraine) should never have started the war.“ - Wer sagt dem mächtigsten Mann der Welt, dass Russland die Ukraine angegriffen hat und in den besetzten Gebieten schreckliche Kriegsverbrechen verübt? Möglichst bevor er Putin die Hand schüttelt.

www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

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IRMA: Machine learning-based harmonization of $$^{18}$$ 18 F-FDG PET brain scans in multi-center studies - European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Purpose Center-specific effects in PET brain scans arise due to differences in technical and procedural aspects. This restricts the merging of data between centers and introduces source-specific bias. Methods We demonstrate the use of the recently proposed machine learning method Iterated Relevance Matrix Analysis (IRMA) for harmonization of center-specific effects in brain $$^{18}$$ 18 F-Fluorodeoxyglucose ( $$^{18}$$ 18 F-FDG) PET scans. The center difference is learned by applying IRMA on PCA-based feature vectors of healthy controls (HC), resulting in a subspace $$\varvec{V}$$ V , representing information not comparable between centers, and the remaining subspace $$\varvec{U}$$ U , where no center differences are present. In this proof-of-concept study, we demonstrate the properties of the method using data from four centers. After center-harmonization, a Generalized Matrix Learning Vector Quantization (GMLVQ) model was trained to discriminate between Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies. Results At the initial IRMA iteration, the system was able to determine the center origin of the four HC cohorts almost perfectly. The method required six iterations, corresponding to a six-dimensional subspace $$\varvec{V}$$ V , to determine the entire center difference. An uncorrected disease classification model was highly biased to center-specific effects, creating a falsely inflated performance when applying internal (cross-) validation. The cross-validation performance of the center-harmonized model remained high, while it generalized significantly better to unseen test cohorts. Furthermore, the framework is highly transparent, providing analytic reconstructions of the correction and visualizations of the data in voxel space. Conclusion IRMA can be used to learn and disregard center-specific information in features extracted from brain $$^{18}$$ 18 F-FDG PET scans, while retaining disease-specific information.

The final version of our article

IRMA: Machine learning-based harmonization of FDG PET brain scans in multi-center studies

is online (open access)

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How to find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see Several groups are working to preserve webpages, tools and data – some of which have already gone missing from government webpages since the start of the Trump administration.

🧪 theconversation.com/how-to-find-...

Berlin says Vance should not interfere in German politics A German government spokesperson said on Friday that U.S. Vice President JD Vance should not interfere in the German election campaign ahead of a snap poll on February 23.

Poutine on our East side , now Trump/Vance/Musk on our West side …. all culturing misinformation and ignorance as weapon of mass destruction ! We need to stand and educate 💪 🇪🇺

: www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Interpretable modelling and visualization of biomedical data Applications of interpretable machine learning (ML) techniques on medical datasets facilitate early and fast diagnoses, along with getting deeper insi…

Our article "Interpretable modelling and visualization of biomedical data" is available online (open access) at Neurocomputing!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Migrationsgesetz knapp abgelehnt. Schweigen im Bundestag.

Michel Friedman: Jüdischer Publizist verlässt CDU wegen Abstimmung mit AfD Nicht alle in der Union sind glücklich über die gemeinsame Abstimmung mit der AfD im Bundestag. Der Publizist Michel Friedman spricht von einer »katastrophalen Zäsur« und erklärt seinen Austritt.

and another one:

www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

Nach Abstimmung im Bundestag: Holocaust-Überlebender will Verdienstkreuz zurückgeben Hier finden Sie Informationen zu dem Thema „Nach Abstimmung im Bundestag“. Lesen Sie jetzt „Holocaust-Überlebender will Verdienstkreuz zurückgeben“.

An appropriate reaction that should make people like von Papen, sorry, I meant Merz, think. Unfortunately they seem to be neither able nor willing do so.

www.zeit.de/news/2025-01...