FOMO of not being able to do #genuary this year. Maybe next year...

Got interested in algorithmic information theory this year and finally found some time to write out the main ideas for myself (mainly based on @hectorzenil.bsky.social's book Algorithmic Information Dynamics). michielstock.github.io/posts/2025/2...

What a cool introduction to hyperdimensional computing! HDC: where dimensionality is a blessing, not a curse. speakerdeck.com/michielstock...

Yesterday I had great fun teaching hyperdimensional computing, the algebra of concepts, to biodesign students. Learn how to build a brain: Slides🛝: speakerdeck.com/michielstock... Notebook🎈: kermit-ugent.github.io/HDC_tutorial/ Repo🐙: github.com/Kermit-UGent...

Slide deck finished. Looking forward to the practice session tomorrow!

A bit of work, but my hyperdimensional computing tutorial is progressing nicely!

New paper! 🚨 Is diversity and novelty the key to making machine learning open-ended, robust, and interpretable? Our latest paper reviews how #qualitydiversity algorithms can be used in the data-to-decision pipeline. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

New paper out! @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social We test whether optical fibres can be used to measure microclimate temperatures in the forest, and investigate what we can learn from it. 🧵👇 The full article is published Open Access: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Incerto books are written in a provocative style that may not appeal to everyone. Beneath the prose, each book explores a profound concept in probability theory. I tried to strip each to its bare bones. (1/6)

The Incerto books are written in a provocative style that may not appeal to everyone. Beneath the prose, each book explores a profound concept in probability theory. I tried to strip each to its bare bones. (1/6)

Small blog post on how to automate model building for mechanical systems using ModelingToolkit. #julialang michielstock.github.io/posts/2025/p...

The KERMIT (kermit.ugent.be) research unit at @fbwugent.bsky.social focuses on holistic modeling for life sciences. In my subunit, we are particularly interested in (stochastic, differentiable, evolutionary...) computation for plants and biotechnology.

Finally, a new blog post! The Walk on Spheres algorithm is an elegant method for solving elliptic PDEs. Minimal implementation using #julialang michielstock.github.io/posts/2025/W...

Submitted a project application today and feel really good about it! Research lines have really fallen into place in the last few years!

As everyone shares AI-generated images, I'll also post something I've created. I took up watercolors to relax, and my latest one I am quite happy about!

Open #PhD position alert! Join @chofski.bsky.social and me, in thinking about how we can use (in silico) evolution in synthetic biology and biodesign! repost = 🥰 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Looking for a #PhD that is at the intersection of #biodesign, #synbio, #openendedness, #evolution? Look no further. Great supervisory team too 😉

Open #PhD position alert! Join @chofski.bsky.social and me, in thinking about how we can use (in silico) evolution in synthetic biology and biodesign! repost = 🥰 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This beautiful paper extends the bias-variance trade-off for some losses to a bias-variance-diversity trade-off for ensembles. Diversity of the predictors always reduces the risk but might lead to more variance or bias. arxiv.org/abs/2301.03962

Low-key, I'm a bit depressed about having lost the Signal chat history with a new phone. I still have the history on the Desktop app, but I am afraid of relinking and losing years of memories and photos I shared with my partner.

Proud to have finally finished the new syllabus of my modeling course. 😌 We cover the fundamentals of modeling with ODEs and probability. I hope the students will also like it in a couple of weeks.

I recently finished Taleb's "Fooled by Randomness". Its main thesis is that a single random draw might not look random, especially after a selection process. Such processes would be vastly different if they were repeated. In a complex world, much is beyond our control.