Giant Brain Discussion
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Carson Chow’s blog announced:
There is an epic discussion on the Connectionist mailing list right now.
He followed up with his two cents entitled “(Lack of) Progress in neuroscience”.
It’s an on-going, vibrant discussion on topics including big data & theory in neuroscience.
His posts had a link to how to join the mailing list, and some very old archives, but THIS is what you want to click if you want to read the current discussion.
Or, more directly, THIS, which will sort by thread.
Tangentially related:
Big Data Brain Drain
http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/10/26/big-data-brain-drain/
Which cites this:
“simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data”
Which is from:
http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/pubs/archive/35179.pdf
[…] Thanks to Labrigger for finding the link yo the thread […]
[…] Labrigger (via Carson Chow) pointed to a sprawling debate on the Connectionist mailing list concerning Big Data and theory in neuroscience. See the list here (“Brain-like computing fanfare and big data fanfare”). There seem to be three main threads of debate: […]