Maarten Poirot

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As PhD candidate I develop and study statistical machine learning systems with applications in psychiatry. Here, I write on published works for a general audience, and on side projects, sports and travel. Feel free to get in touch.

publishedside projectsportstravelwebdevAWS

A RAG App for Local PDFs

A step-by-step guide to building a RAG app that uses AWS Bedrock API, ChromaDB, and Flask for local document retrieval and AI-based question answering.

side project0119 Feb

Connectle

Play this challenging puzzle game, solve the puzzles programmatically, and read about the relevance of this path finding problem to chip design.

side project
13 min
21801 Dec

UTMB race text-data

I scraped UTMB world, the biggest trail running race database containing text-data about 38.461 races, 7.1M participants and > 160.3M km ran.

side project
8 min
1236815 May

3D Brains in Blender

A tutorial on how to visualize FreeSurfer brain text-data using Blender

published
11 min
16825 Apr

Free, safe & static email

Tutorial on setting up free and safe e-mail for serverless sites.

side project
13 min
188705 Mar

The game Pickomino

Play Pickomino online against the computer and improve your play

side project
12 min
11619215 Feb

React audio player

A demo of the simple audio player used on this site.

side project
4 min
32719 Jan

Dynamic maps from GPX

Dynamically create maps from track files in Gatsby.

side project
6 min
03419 Nov

Secure files in WordPress

Secure WordPress files by restricting direct access.

side project
11 min
710023 Jul

Stability of MRI features

On the stability of brain MRI features and its effect on prediction.

published
7 min
04530 Sep

Distributed machine learning

Split Learning is a new way to collaboratively train models without sharing text-data.

published774820 Sep

Reconstruction of CT with deep learning

Physics informed ResNet reconstructs non-contrast CT from dual energy CT.

published0819 Sep

Clustering songs

Audit Spotify playlists using high dimensional text-data clustering.

side project01201 Aug

Autoencoder compression

Domain specific auto encoders outperform ordinary compression.

side project0619 Jul

Multi-organ segmentation

A 2.5D U-Net to automate eight hours of pretreatment planning.

published0819 Jul

Transaction classification

An app for automatic classification of bank transactions.

side project0419 Jul

76k Verbier Trail Run

A race report the UTMB X-Traversée in the wonderful Verbier, over the St Bernards pass and back.

sports14813 Jul

Downgrade AWS Lightsail

A solution to allow for downgrading AWS LightSail instances.

side project
6 min
038208 Jun

60k Trail in Norway

Race report of a local 60k trail run to the north of Oslo.

sports01204 Mar

Photo tagging

Organizing photos using large scale photo tagging.

side project3719 Feb

Static site development

How this website is developed.

side project0503 Jan

This sites backend

How this website is free, fast and fascinating!

side project01202 Jan

Scope of this site

Why I made a portfolio website.

side project01001 Jan

Ironman Vichy

Preparation and race report of my first full Ironman.

sports02922 Aug

Set passwords in WordPress

Stop WordPress sending plain text passwords.

side project
7 min
02119 Jun

Measuring the retina

A new way to measure calcification in the back of the eye.

published0419 Jun

Hiking Corsica, GR20

A three-week hike through the incredible terrain of Corsica.

sports01819 Sep

Cycling to Rome

Let guide you along our bike route to Rome and the magnificent places we visited.

travel01330 Sep