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About Abstraction

04/04/2017 19:12
I recently started working as a Statistical Programmer at a company specializing in the statistical analysis of clinical trial data and epidemiological data. As a consequence, I work with other people's code, validating it, trying to understand what it's doing with the data. It seems a good idea,...

Vis

01/03/2017 16:22
With the advent of large-scale neural simulations and recordings, the question that I really have is, how do we make sense of the data that these modalities generate and generate scientific insights? I ran a simple rate-based simulation (e.g. each neuron is characterized by an instanteneous rate...

Implants

26/01/2017 16:12
I cannot predict the exact time point when I will die. But in that moment of my consciousness of disappearing, I wish to have no regrets over my life. I wish to take full advantage of the chance event of my conception.   I dreamt that I am a machine. A nanomesh altering neural activity and...

Modes of Flight

25/01/2017 17:31
International flights are a special space between two timepoints. As I am physically lifted into air, my mind is similarly upheaved. At this particular flight, I was contemplating the idea that a mind can understand its physical realization, the brain.  I woke up in the morning and packed a...

Anything that You can Imagine, You can Create

03/11/2016 20:16
My definition of Engineering is the Imaginative Application of the Laws of Physics. You are always constrained by what is Physically Possible, but the Opportunties afforded by Physics turn out to have a Combinatorially Many Degrees of Freedom. Nature Computes. Sensory systems, cortical processing...