Swimming together in murky waters
Swimming together in murky waters
Basic research with animals as experimental subjects is essential if we hope to understand the brain. The ethical standards to which we hold ourselves and by which we conduct those experiments are a measure of our humanity.
Haldan Keffer Hartline (1903–1983) might always have been destined for a life in biological research [1].
A small Matlab mex tool for generating sparse matrices from disk.
The sea wall in Alghero
The sea wall in Alghero
This year at Capo Caccia we will be talking about how we can analytically decompose simple models of cortex; thinking about how competition in cortex can explain responses to natural stimuli, and discussing the anatomy of competition in cortex.
Sparse matrix storage is great, but the process for building a sparse matrices can consume a lot of memory. Here's how I dealt with the problem.