Keep your fancy ML models for MNIST — it is all chaos now.
Is it going to rain tomorrow?
Smartphones made answering such questions a very trivial task. While this is how most people interact with weather forecasts, I have never thought about how those forecasts were made in the first place. With all the press and hype around Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, one might assume that weather forecasts should rely on some sort of AI to predict the weather. …
A visual guide for those who were told to “just remember the formula” or those who don’t know why they should care at all.
One of the most central concepts in statistics is the concept of standard deviation and its relationship to all other statistical quantities such as the variance and the mean. Students in introductory courses are told to “just remember the formula” but, believe me, this is not the best way to explain a concept. In this post, I will try to provide a visual and intuitive explanation of the standard deviation.
Let’s say you got a list of grades, which in this case would be our real-world measurements. We want to “compress” the information in those measurements into a handful number…
How I used Python, Node.js and OpenBCI hardware to accurately read my brain signals
As originally appeared in my personal blog.
I love coding and I also study the brain — so why not tackle them both? In this post, I show you how you can hack your brain using both code and the amazing and low-cost hardware from OpenBCI to manipulate your brain signals. I started my neuroscience journey back in 2014. Since then, I have always wanted to explore the brain with the available EEG. This should be a required lab for every cognitive neuroscience student and researcher as it represents an opportunity to explore many neuroscientific questions. Anyway, I only bought…
What an analysis of 1M+ articles can tell us about modern neuroscience research
Neuroscience is a diverse field of science made of different disciples: biology, psychology, computer science, linguistics and many more. The primary goal of brain science(s) is to understand the nervous system. The paths leading to this noble goal, however, vary from one field to another. Such diversity stems from the fact that the brain (or nervous system in general) is the most complex organ in the known universe, entailing many levels of dynamics and complexity.
All this diversity makes it harder to mark the semantic boundaries of…
It makes us rather different
“Kids aren’t learning anymore, they spend all the time playing with their iPhones and can’t read or write a whole paragraph properly.” I heard this mantra over and over with different versions and I always wonder if this is really the case. Some have gone to an extreme end suggesting that “the human brain [..] is under threat from the modern world.” BOOM!!! Others are more skeptical about whether the ubiquitous technology will fundamentally change our brain structures or cognitive processes. In research, the bafflement is no different. Although we lack hard data about the neural changes of those who…
