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

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
0101 Dec

UTMB race data

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

side project
8 min
1134515 May

3D Brains in Blender

A tutorial on how to visualize FreeSurfer brain data using Blender

published
11 min
03425 Apr

Free, safe & static email

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

side project
13 min
178205 Mar

The game Pickomino

Play Pickomino online against the computer and improve your play

side project
12 min
10512015 Feb

React audio player

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

side project
4 min
31619 Jan

Dynamic maps from GPX

Dynamically create maps from track files in Gatsby.

side project
6 min
02319 Nov

Secure files in WordPress

Secure WordPress files by restricting direct access.

side project
11 min
69623 Jul

Stability of MRI features

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

published
7 min
04330 Sep

Distributed machine learning

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

published674520 Sep

Reconstruction of CT with deep learning

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

published0519 Sep

Clustering songs

Audit Spotify playlists using high dimensional data clustering.

side project0501 Aug

Autoencoder compression

Domain specific auto encoders outperform ordinary compression.

side project0219 Jul

Multi-organ segmentation

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

published0419 Jul

Transaction classification

An app for automatic classification of bank transactions.

side project0219 Jul

76k Verbier Trail Run

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

sports13713 Jul

Downgrade AWS Lightsail

A solution to allow for downgrading AWS LightSail instances.

side project
6 min
031008 Jun

60k Trail in Norway

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

sports0804 Mar

Photo tagging

Organizing photos using large scale photo tagging.

side project3519 Feb

Static site development

How this website is developed.

side project0403 Jan

This sites backend

How this website is free, fast and fascinating!

side project0702 Jan

Scope of this site

Why I made a portfolio website.

side project0801 Jan

Ironman Vichy

Preparation and race report of my first full Ironman.

sports02022 Aug

Set passwords in WordPress

Stop WordPress sending plain text passwords.

side project
7 min
01519 Jun

Measuring the retina

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

published0219 Jun

Hiking Corsica, GR20

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

sports01219 Sep

Cycling to Rome

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

travel0830 Sep