vetta project

My thesis is now available at lulu.com.  As promised, it’s at cost, which works out at $18 plus shipping.  It’s all under a creative commons licence and in a few months I’ll put the pdf online for free.  I’ll also write a post shortly on all the tricks involved in publishing on lulu.com with LaTeX, [...]

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If Roadrunner is a bit beyond your budget, simulating neural networks with GPUs might be an option:

The next generation of Nvidia GPUs will support enhancements such as double precision floating point in order to make them more suitable for general purpose highly parallel computation. There will also be cards with no graphics interface [...]

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I just saw another neuroscience paper on neural correlates of consciousness. When I first heard about this idea in a lecture series given by Christof Koch, I thought it was a good idea. I now suspect, however, that this line of research is going to produce very little. What it will probably [...]

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– Henry Markram in this article.
Maybe, but I suspect he will be beaten by people working on ANNs.

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I’ve been invited to give a talk next week at the Gatsby Unit in London. Gatsby is known around the world for its research into theoretical neuroscience, computational neuroscience and machine learning. It’s home to famous researchers such as Peter Dayan, David MacKay and, until recently, Geoffrey Hinton. I’ll also get to [...]

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“But we need to improve 106-fold or more,” says Denk, who estimates that this would shrink the three billion person years it would take to trace a cortical column down to about two years. “I’m confident in the end that we will be able to do it,” he says. “But I don’t know how long [...]

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