It looks like I am following the herd (aka my age cohort) and I found myself into video game development. Saying that I enjoy the whole process is an understatement! In videogame development there is everything I love: UX/UI Story telling Programming Design The game engine of my choice is the fabulous Godot. It is … Continue reading
One year ago I was hired as the head of the behavioral core (Neuro-BAU) at the Department of Fundamental Neurosciences (University of Lausanne, – Switzerland, @UNIL). It’s been a year of success stories, learning new ways of doing research, and frustration, too. The following is a reflection on the role of behavioral neuroscience in … … Continue reading
I’ve been through a rather long period during which my creativity was virtually absent. This has already happened to me in the past and one of the tricks for getting out of it is to look at ordinary things with a different point of view (i.e. spending the commute time on the bus looking at … Continue reading
I used to spend many hours working on microscopes, but now that the job has changed I am no longer playing around with microscopes. So you can imagine my excitement when I had the opportunity to develop a behavioral setup for microorganisms. There’s plenty of interesting and fascinating questions to ask in the microcosmos but … Continue reading
Feeling so sleep-deprived lately… 🙂
This is a ~weekly Link Roundup of the most interesting content I found in the past week. News and Resources for Artificial Intelligence, and Neuroscience . What are the open research areas in Deep Learning? – www.quora.com Big data and biomedical informatics: a challenging opportunity – www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor? – journals.plos.org neuroscience is held … Continue reading
AKA How I managed to survive an armed toddler. I hide a gun in my house, it’s in a safe place. I have a gun (Smith & Wesson Shield) hidden in the top drawer of a chest of drawers by the main hallway. It’s conveniently located between the bedroom and the entrance door. It’s there for … Continue reading
This is a ~weekly Link Roundup of the most interesting content I found in the past week. News and Resources for Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience. Neural Episodic Control – arxiv.org Deep reinforcement learning methods attain super-human performance in a wide range of environments. Such methods are grossly inefficient, often taking orders of magnitudes more data than … Continue reading
News and Resources for Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience & Data Science. Abstracts – neuroinformatics2017.org Abstract submission is open for the Neuroinformatics conference. Workshops- COSYNE 2017 – www.cosyne.org The conference is long past, but the list of abstracts is the best way to catch up with what is (and will be) trending in neuroscience, and brain-based artificial intelligence. … Continue reading
