Nicolas F. Chaves-de-Plaza
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Nicolas F. Chaves-de-Plaza
@nicodeplaza.bsky.social
Visualization PhD at TU Delft interested in human-* interaction where * can be data, AI, models, computer, etc.
I kinda like ChatGPT’s approach to the question “who was I in another life?”. Mapping uncharted territories sounds like fun! Uncovering hidden patterns and structures, even better! #chatgpt #llm #prompt
March 18, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Goedemorgen! Mijn naam is Ramona Negrón (@ramonanegron.bsky.social), postdoc bij het KITLV in Leiden. Ik houd me vooral bezig met vroegmoderne koloniale slavernijgeschiedenis. Deze week deel ik hier wat mij zoal bezighoudt. Waar zouden jullie graag meer over willen weten?
March 10, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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i feel like one of the disappointments of current tech is that it frees you from mental tasks only to realize you weren’t going to do anything better with that mental processing
December 8, 2024 at 3:54 AM
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hi everyone!! let's try this optimal transport again 🙃
December 5, 2024 at 12:58 PM
One of the reasons I opted for a PhD instead of a more traditional path in tech is to have access to, what I perceived were, more complex problems
December 5, 2024 at 9:35 AM
The term human-data/information interaction captures more clearly what visualization means to me #dataviz
December 4, 2024 at 10:54 AM
Building a @napari.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy js-based widget to explore clustering results #dataviz
December 4, 2024 at 10:07 AM
1/n) Written language seems more suitable to express hypotheses than visual means #dataviz
December 2, 2024 at 1:28 PM
🎉 Excited to share that our paper, "Implementation of delineation error detection systems in time-critical radiotherapy: Do AI-supported optimization and human preferences meet?", has been published in Cognition, Technology & Work!

Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#AI #Radiotherapy #PhD
Implementation of delineation error detection systems in time-critical radiotherapy: Do AI-supported optimization and human preferences meet? - Cognition, Technology & Work
Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based auto-delineation technologies rapidly delineate multiple structures of interest like organs-at-risk and tumors in 3D medical images, reducing personnel load and faci...
link.springer.com
November 28, 2024 at 10:24 AM
The production level of @deep-mind.bsky.social videos is crazy. They don’t fail to motivate me in my own scientific pursuits. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGsy...
A New Age of Opportunity | AI for Science Forum
YouTube video by Google DeepMind
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Technology and knowledge is incredibly fragile. Delete a couple of hard drives and most of what we know how to do is gone. Right?
November 22, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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The 2025 SciVis Contest Data is available!

If you/your team/your students are looking for an exciting visualization challenge (it's about helping scientists develop new, sustainable materials), take a look at the contest data:

sciviscontest2025.github.io

#Visualization #IEEEVIS #SciVis #Contest
November 22, 2024 at 11:27 AM
From experience: #AI and #DataViz researchers need advanced domain understanding before building effective tools. Why not empower domain experts to create their own tools and tackle their research questions directly? Programming languages are an example of this idea, but can be too complex
November 22, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Listening to Demis Hassabis from @deep-mind.bsky.social talk about the future of applied AI research, specially for biology, fills me with energy and hope for the future www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQKm...
AI for Science with Sir Paul Nurse, Demis Hassabis, Jennifer Doudna, and John Jumper
YouTube video by Google DeepMind
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Epistemology and entanglements: two words that stayed with me from today’s very refreshing talk by @gotdairyya.bsky.social at TU Eindhoven. It’s always good to take a conceptual step back to find opportunities for improving and strengthening #dataviz practice 💪🏻 go check Derya’s papers to learn more!
November 19, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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What Giorgia Lupi has and is going through with Long Covid is horrendous, I am so sorry for her facing all this. In this piece for New York Timed she reflects on her experience with her typically exquisite flair

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | 1,374 Days: My Life With Long Covid
Chronic illness has a way of picking apart your mind and breaking your heart.
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2023 at 11:52 AM
We are witnessing a dramatic increase in the size of LLMs like ChatGPT. No one knows how big is big enough. Shouldn’t we instead try to attain human-level performance while keeping the model as concise as a human brain? How big is the human brain, actually (in LLM terms)?
December 8, 2023 at 6:49 AM
I couldn’t believe when they told me ChatGPT could reconstruct what I -mis-typed without looking at the keyboard … but it can 🤯, ChatGPT is also the best keyboard auto-correct it seems …
November 24, 2023 at 5:05 PM
If a task cannot be successfully fully automated, the user will need to play an often boring and fatiguing supervisory role. In these cases, a human-centered interactive intelligence approach should be favored …
November 16, 2023 at 9:19 PM
Like the term “interactive intelligence”
November 16, 2023 at 9:16 PM
A limitation of ChatGPT is that it cannot leverage models. For instance, it might “know” of e=mc^2. But it cannot compute with it. Therefore, there is a lot of knowledge currently being wasted…
November 16, 2023 at 4:48 PM
Is anyone aware of work that performs a user evaluation of the scalability and performance of spaghetti plots for ensemble analysis tasks?
Intuitively, with many lines they become too cluttered and their effectiveness reduces. But haven’t found a reference for this …
October 30, 2023 at 5:02 PM
Nice collection and perspective on some of this year’s #ieeevis papers
It's time for the IEEE Vis conference. I'm not in Oz this year, but the paper listing is online ieeevis.org/year/2023/in.... Authors are pretty good about putting their papers on arxiv ; I've been downloading and following along.
October 28, 2023 at 8:29 AM
Nature is like a genie that answers exactly the question we pose, not necessarily the one we intend to ask. But we have to believe […] that the answer to the question we wish to ask does exist in nature. - Judea Pearl
October 26, 2023 at 6:58 AM