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Apr 19, 2018
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Emily Mackevicius
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Andrew Bahle
The ability to identify interpretable, low-dimensional features that capture the dynamics of large-scale neural recordings is a major challenge in neuroscience. Dynamics that include repeated temporal patterns (which we call sequences), are not...
Embedded thumbnail for Dimensionality Reduction for Matrix- and Tensor-Coded Data [Part 2] (46:05)
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Alex Williams
Taught by: Alex Williams, Stanford University In many scientific domains, data is coded in large tables or higher-dimensional arrays. Compressing these data into smaller, more manageable representations is often critical for extracting scientific...
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Taught by: Alex Williams, Stanford University In many scientific domains, data is coded in large tables or higher-dimensional arrays. Compressing these data into smaller, more manageable representations is often critical for extracting scientific...
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Jul 12, 2017
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Pengcheng Zhou
[recording cut short due to technical issues] In vivo calcium imaging through microendoscopic lenses enables imaging of previously inaccessible neuronal populations deep in the brains of freely moving animals. It is computationally challenging to...
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Jun 16, 2017
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Samuel Gershman
This tutorial introduces the basic concepts of reinforcement learning and how they have been applied in psychology and neuroscience. Hands-on exercises explore how simple algorithms can explain aspects of animal learning and the firing of...
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Eric Denovellis
This tutorial focuses on best coding practices to develop code that is reusable, sharable, and bug free. It highlights issues such as documentation, version control, and unit testing, through hands-on computer exercises. Taught by: Eric Denovellis,...
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Apr 26, 2017
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Harini Suresh, Nicholas Locascio
Long Short Term Memory networks (LSTMs) are a type of recurrent neural network that can capture long term dependencies, which are frequently used for natural language modeling and speech recognition. This tutorial covers the conceptual basics of...
Embedded thumbnail for An Introduction to Spike Sorting (1:54:30)
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Mar 22, 2017
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Jai Bhagat, Caroline Moore-Kochlacs
In in-vivo animal models, neuroscience experiments in electrophysiology are commonly performed with the use of extracellular electrodes implanted in the cell layer of specific brain regions of interest. These electrodes record voltage traces and...
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Evan Remington, MIT  An introduction to the OpenMind computing resources, and best practices when using it. More information can be found here - https://stellar.mit.edu/S/project/bcs-comp-tut/index.html
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Satrajit Ghosh, MIT The tutorial will focus on singularity, an HPC container service, and how to incorporate it into your openmind workflow. More information can be found here - https://stellar.mit.edu/S/project/bcs-comp-tut/index.html Update from...

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