Michael Sokoletsky

Excellent talk and book. Highly recommend sharing with anyone you know who is interested in going into neuroscience! youtu.be/T4BBsSKkCBA?si=7rAH…

How should one learn machine learning? While formal courses can provide deep theoretical understanding, it isn't necessary when using ready-made libraries. In this video, I talk about the importance of intuition and breadth, rather than rigor and depth: youtube.com/watch?v=Ite8EWH6…

My hypothesis: 2AC is typically paired with discrimination, which is harder, whereas go/no-go is typically paired with detection, which is easier. But this conflates the stimulus and report paradigms. You can often change one without the other. For example.. (2/3)

I've trained mice on either the go/no-go or two-alternative-choice (2AC) lickport task with the exact same parameters (cue, stimulus, response window, etc.). Contrary to common belief, I found that the 2AC task isn't really harder for mice. So why is it thought to be so? (1/3)

I think it's unfortunate that most machine learning resources are so equation-centric, when by far the most important thing are the underlying concepts. StatQuest is an excellent YouTube channel which teaches these concepts: youtube.com/watch?v=Gv9_4yMH… Any other such resources?

(10/10) Tutorial #1: youtube.com/watch?v=uUhjfX37… Tutorial #2: youtube.com/watch?v=dBfGhFs2…. And if you want even greater capacity/speed, go read about RAID! Enjoy :)

(9/10) If it doesn't, no reason to worry! You most likely have a PCIe slot available (x4 or higher), in which case you can get an NVMe to PCIe adapter for an extra $10 and connect it that way (tutorial #2 below). This will be either almost or equally good.

(8/10) Say you're not currently using an NVMe SSD. How can you upgrade? There are two ways. First, you can check if your PC has a free M.2 slot (M.2 being by far the most common form factor of NVMe SSDs), and if so, just connect it directly (tutorial #1 below).

(7/10) How can you find out which one you have? The most universal way is to go to your computer's list of devices (Device Manager in Windows and System Report in Mac), look under drives, and Google the model name/number.

(4/10) SATA is the older and slower kind, with read/write speeds of 200-550 MB/s. NVMe is the newer and much faster kind, with read/write speeds of 3-7.5 GB/s. Both have lower capacities than HDDs but their cost is generally comparable, at about $200-300 for 4 TB.