A Halfway Decent LaTeX Writing Setup — I wouldn’t necessarily recommend writing anything in LaTeX unless you’re already in the cult, but if you are, this is how I’ve managed to write in a way that doesn’t make me curse us having
What's the Best First Guess in Wordle? — I was stuck at home and bored today, and saw @qntm’s post showing that the list of words for each day in wordle is actually hardcoded in the source of the site, so I tried
Public Records in Oregon — Writing down a bit of what I’ve learned about getting public records for a skillshare. This’ll focus mostly on Oregon, but most states have similar public records laws modeled off FOIA :). A lot of
Building the Basic Infrastructure That a Layperson Would Expect Systems Neuroscientists to Have Would Revolutionize the Discipline: A Vision for ONICE — Note: This was something I wrote hastily a long time ago, and my thinking has *dramatically changed* since this was written (read: i think most of this is wrong or at least too coy to
Past Art Vol 2: About a Year of It — There’s a folder on my computer that is named stupid_bullshit_projects that continually fills up with the things that i make and never end up telling anyone about. It is never in a hurry to get
NSF GRFP Advice and My Annotated Proposal — I saw this tweet from Mae with the brilliant idea to share her NSF GRFP materials & give a thread of advice: It's NSF GRFP season!I wanted to go ahead and share my (rejected) 2014
Music of Music and the Brain — I’m just finishing teaching another Summer Edition (tm) of my Music and the Brain course, and in an fit of raw grading-aversion and sentimentality needed to compile the music we listened to together into a
Automating Poll Tweets in the New Layout Hellscape — Yes, the new Twitter layout is so o o bad, but it also broke my bot that uses Selenium to post polls (a weird missing part of the Twitter API). Here are some new selectors
An Adversarial (re)Analysis of Zhou/Firestone 2019 — This post is a reanalysis of Zhenglong Zhou and Chaz Firestone’s paper “Humans can deciper adversarial images,” so let’s get some links out of the way Paper - Zhou Z, Firestone C. Humans can deciper
Correlation Isn't Connectivity — In a network analysis class this fall, I was unsurprised but more than a little annoyed to learn that the widespread practice of measuring “functional connectivity” by correlating voxelwise fMRI timeseries was essentially unvalidated. Of
Crudely converting OpenEphys to Neurodata Without Borders — Our lab is toying with the idea of moving our data to Neurodata Without Borders. Turns out it won’t be such a monumental task after all. I figured someone would have written a guide for
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