COSYNE 2024 workshop: “What are the learning rules of the brain?”
Organised by Tim O’Leary, Oleg Senkevich and Cian O’Donnell. Recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_JBETMQwx8.
Code
Code for fitting our Population Tracking statistical model to neural population activity data is available here: https://github.com/cianodonnell/PopulationTracking.
About doing a PhD
PhDs are mysterious to a lot of undergraduate and masters students. In October 2020 I recorded a 20 minute video covering my views on UK PhDs:
- What “doing a PhD” involves
- Reasons to do a PhD
- Reasons to not do a PhD
- How to find and apply for PhDs
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WNHHp2gT7s.
Slides pdf here.
It was originally recorded for Bristol Computer Science students but should be relevant for anyone interested in a Science/Engineering PhD in the UK.
About asking questions in meetings and seminars
We did a group brainstorming session on asking questions:
- Benefits of asking questions
- Types of questions
- Why people realistically often don’t ask questions
- How to construct good seminar questions
Slides pdf here.