Two new planets for neuroscientists
No, not heavenly bodies, feed aggregators.
On jargon
When we speak of jargon, it is usually because we heard something we couldn't make sense of. We focus on how it adversely affects the listener. The truth is, it also affects the speaker if the speaker does indeed intend to get the point across. In this post I discuss how it affects my work and me and I try to document what I can do to improve my communications to make it easier for my listeners and me to understand each other correctly.
Using NEURON - Part II
Quickly scripting a grid-search for parameter tuning
Finding the right set of parameters is quite important in a lot of research - machine learning and computational neuroscience are two fields that I know of. I recently had to ascertain the optimal parameter set for my simulations too. I came up with a quick script to do it for me.
Using NEURON - Part I
Tinkering with OpenLayers and JS - Cajal - a hacked up neuroscience research map
I was tinkering with JavaScript and OpenLayers recently and came up with a web application that shows the different Neuroscience labs on the world and some summary information on them. Still needs a lot of data to be really useful, but it's a start.
Some tips and tricks for running simulations on a cluster
I use the cluster here at university to run my simulations in Nest. This post documents some tips and tricks I've come up with to make my cluster tasks easier.
sli.vim - syntax file for the NEST simulator's SLI language
Copr repository for neuroscience related packages
I now maintain a COPR repository where I host neuroscience related packages that Fedora users can use. These packages will be submitted for review to Fedora when I have time in the future.
CNS 2015 - Workshops
I recently attended the conference for computational neuroscience (CNS 2015) in Prague. This post is a summary of the event. These have not been proofread at all. They're just what I noted during the conference.