Thursday, December 2, 2021

Morning - going to work on literature review in block 1, then in block 2 I'll check out some NMC stuff and see what is on today.

https://compneuro.neuromatch.io/tutorials/W3D5_NetworkCausality/student/W3D5_Tutorial2.html
Don't forget this from Neuromatch, that in large brain systems correlation does not well match causation.

Check out this http://www.brain-score.org/#about
Check out neurallatents.github.io/

Still need to fully read the paper that Shane sent on to me.

Literature review - need to check the Zotero to see if covered everything.

Friday here:
Updated the literature review, seems fine for now - time to move on to finishing my paper and then chapter 3.

Brief neuromatch notes:
I need to grab the things from my journal, and check neural latents - but I have incorporated a lot of the grand ideas into my notebook.
A big thing of note (and this is a bit informal), is that there are many scientists (not all - some are very enthusiastic) who struggle with similar to me.
They think that scientific publishing encourages sheep behaviour (it is easy to say to encourage diversity but it is not currently rewarded).
That the grant system is too taxing.
That scientific loneliness is a problem (not able to bounce ideas).
That it can feel a little grim for the field that if we can't understand ANNs, how brains.
That we used to use the excuse of "not enough data" but that no longer applies - it is on us, and the methods just are not really developing.