Maarten Poirot

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Hi, I am an AI scientist and health care professional. Here, I write on published works for a general audience, side projects, sports, and travel. Feel free to get in touch.

publishedside projectsportstravelAWS

A scanner took down WordPress

How a bot scanning non-existing URLs filled Apache's scoreboard on a small AWS Lightsail Bitnami WordPress instance, and what fixed it.

side project 00026 Jun

SilverBullet

An introduction and some handy tools for this simple yet powerfull documentation application

side project 00010 Feb

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 project
18 min
00919 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
022901 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
01238815 May

3D Brains in Blender

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

published
11 min
019525 Apr

Free, safe & static email

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

side project
13 min
0258705 Mar

The game Pickomino

Play Pickomino online against the computer and improve your play

side project
12 min
011622115 Feb

React audio player

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

side project
4 min
032819 Jan

Dynamic maps from GPX

Dynamically create maps from track files in Gatsby.

side project
6 min
003919 Nov

Secure files in WordPress

Secure WordPress files by restricting direct access.

side project
11 min
0710023 Jul

Stability of MRI features

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

published
7 min
004630 Sep

Distributed machine learning

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

published 0774820 Sep

Reconstruction of CT with deep learning

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

published 00919 Sep

Clustering songs

Audit Spotify playlists using high dimensional text-data clustering.

side project 001301 Aug

Autoencoder compression

Domain specific auto encoders outperform ordinary compression.

side project 00619 Jul

Multi-organ segmentation

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

published 00819 Jul

Transaction classification

An app for automatic classification of bank transactions.

side project 00519 Jul

76k Verbier Trail Run

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

sports 015413 Jul

Downgrade AWS Lightsail

A solution to allow for downgrading AWS LightSail instances.

side project
6 min
0042008 Jun

60k Trail in Norway

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

sports 001404 Mar

Photo tagging

Organizing photos using large scale photo tagging.

side project 03719 Feb

Static site development

How this website is developed.

side project 00603 Jan

This sites backend

How this website is free, fast and fascinating!

side project 001402 Jan

Scope of this site

Why I made a portfolio website.

side project 001101 Jan

Ironman Vichy

Preparation and race report of my first full Ironman.

sports 003322 Aug

Set passwords in WordPress

Stop WordPress sending plain text passwords.

side project
7 min
002119 Jun

Measuring the retina

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

published 00419 Jun

Hiking Corsica, GR20

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

sports 001919 Sep

Cycling to Rome

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

travel 001430 Sep