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Tips on using crcns datasets
I’ve mentioned before that the CRCNS web site has a number of neural datasets available for download. To save you some time, here’s some tips to get you up and running for specific datasets. V2-1 data Jack Gallant’s V2 dataset is really interesting; I think it’s fair to say that we know very little about
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Scalable models workshop recap
Originally posted on Scalable models for high-dimensional neural data: [ This blog post is collaboratively written by Evan and Memming ] The Scalable Models workshop was a remarkable success! It attracted a huge crowd from the wee morning hours till the 7:30 pm close of the day. We attracted so much attention that we had…
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Running NX with Ubuntu 12.04+
Newer versions of Ubuntu use the Unity interface – a shell for GNOME. Unity doesn’t play nicely with NX, which is a remote desktop solution for Linux. By default, it doesn’t work at all – and when you do get NX to work with Unity, you get some serious glitches when switching windows. I couldn’t
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How real science labs work
I was reading The Antidote – an excellent book on negative thinking, stoicism and the bankruptcy of self-help; via this post on the New Yorker – and I stumbled onto a paper by the psychologist Kevin Dunbar on how science is made. It’s an illuminating read. Dunbar followed 4 molecular biology lab for a year,
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New feature: recently read papers
A little known feature of Zotero is that the online version can generate an RSS feed from a collection. The feed is served via https, which is fine for e.g. feedly. However, WordPress.com doesn’t like https RSS feeds, so I forwarded my feed using feedcat – a pretty terrible service, but it was the first
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Compressing wideband signals with FLAC
We’ve been recording neurons on Utah arrays for ~3 years now. That creates a lot of data, and we keep buying more drives (above – there’s about 30TB of storage on the hub computer). Drives themselves are cheap; it’s backing up the data which becomes expensive in the long run, both in terms of bandwidth
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