Motivation beats Salvation, this is my Workstation Vexation
This blog is about fun and casual experiments with neural data and models. My name is Maria and I work as a data scientist in Estonia. I have a master's degree in Applied Mathematics and I've been to neuroscience summer schools with scholarships in Princeton, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Berkeley, Obergurgl (Human Brain Project) and Tampere University. Computational neuroscience is my latent passion. It is my current dream to do a second master's in Computational Neuroscience at the Bernstein Center in Berlin.
I read a lot of papers. Academic papers are brilliant and dense. The mathematical derivations are often very involved. Mostly, the data that the papers are based on is not available. I often wonder, how did the authors of the papers get those ideas? How did they come up with the algorithms and the models? How does scientific discovery happen?
This blog is based on the idea that in the Brave New World of Neuroscience it is important to experiment and have fun:-). Even if your ideas don't yield State-of-the-Art results that can be published in Nature or Neuron, they can still give you a kernel of insight. I find it difficult to study theories without rolling up my sleeves and exploring a dataset or hacking around with a model. I think that understanding and intuition is predicated on experimentation. Most of the experiments fail. But if you do enough of them, you might just strike gold. You might find out something new about Nature.
So this is it. It's one neuroscientist's-to-be adventure without censure.
I read a lot of papers. Academic papers are brilliant and dense. The mathematical derivations are often very involved. Mostly, the data that the papers are based on is not available. I often wonder, how did the authors of the papers get those ideas? How did they come up with the algorithms and the models? How does scientific discovery happen?
This blog is based on the idea that in the Brave New World of Neuroscience it is important to experiment and have fun:-). Even if your ideas don't yield State-of-the-Art results that can be published in Nature or Neuron, they can still give you a kernel of insight. I find it difficult to study theories without rolling up my sleeves and exploring a dataset or hacking around with a model. I think that understanding and intuition is predicated on experimentation. Most of the experiments fail. But if you do enough of them, you might just strike gold. You might find out something new about Nature.
So this is it. It's one neuroscientist's-to-be adventure without censure.
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