Chris Rodgers / is on Nostr

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2025-03-08 17:05:57

@nprofile…uc38 With bioRxiv down for routine maintenance, I'm contemplating what academic life would be like without it. What do you think about a P2P version of bioRxiv that wouldn't require centralized funding? Sharing the PDFs should be easy with current technology, but the way I understand content sharing, you still always need some central and searchable index of what is available, which someone has to host / maintain / pay for / be responsible for. Is there a way to spread the indexing function over all the nodes?

2023-09-01 12:24:41

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@npub19d9…f02p @npub1e6k…ct64 In my opinion, the classic way to teach intro neuro is a bit reductionist bc the students spend weeks on molecular and biophysical principles (eg Hodgkin Huxley) before they get to systems neuro, if ever. This could be a good chance to invert that and start out with the kind of neuro that a lot of us love — large scale circuits and computations, based fundamentally on information theory and signal processing. Maybe focus some of the assignments around analyzing big datasets? Challenge with this approach might be to keep it grounded in behavior or biology and not just a data mining exercise