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Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. ~~ G. K. Chesterton |
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| Monday, December 07, 2009 |
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| so, after long last, my meta-analysis has been accepted, which is some pretty amazing stuff considering i'm still more or less a nobody. my favorite part so far of the tying-up-loose-ends portion of the exercise is that the editorial team, for some inscrutable reason, needs a paper copy of the manuscript, which i fully intend to send to them in a nice hefty cardboard box. i think it's always been one of my dreams to send someone a manuscript in a nice hefty cardboard box. it feels so like something jane austen would do, although she probably never did. |
| posted by The Corgi of Mystery @ 12/07/2009 08:32:00 PM |
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| Tuesday, December 01, 2009 |
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| here's an interesting take on "professional opinions" by josh olson. i don't think i have personal experience with this on any level, but i totally appreciate what he's trying to say. |
| posted by The Corgi of Mystery @ 12/01/2009 09:51:00 PM |
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| Wednesday, November 25, 2009 |
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| i got the proofs for our neuroimage paper a couple of days ago, and was slightly disgusted with the number of errors that remain in it even after the copy editor had (supposedly) done his job. i may not have mentioned this on here, but after i gave the thumbs-up to the final version, one of our co-authors (who shall remain unnamed) took it upon himself to make a few "improvements" just before making the submission. there's nothing egregious -- a few omitted and extraneous words, and some stylistic clunkers -- but it annoys me that i should still have to make those corrections at this late stage of the game. there should be a rule in collaborative writing where one, and only one person is the grammar guy, and that person gets to be the last guy to touch anything before the final version is locked down. and by 'one person', i mean not the native chinese speaker who doesn't believe in indefinite articles. |
| posted by The Corgi of Mystery @ 11/25/2009 04:19:00 PM |
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| Sunday, November 15, 2009 |
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| von's post yesterday reminded me a little of a talk i attended recently by brian knutson, who studies neuroeconomics and how decision-making is instantiated in the brain. through various studies over the last decade or so, we've shown pretty convincingly that there are certain areas in the reward pathway and frontal cortex that give us the power to predict decisions a person will make above and beyond their stated preferences. it also seems that the more difficult the decision is, the more incremental validity the neural information gives us. in other words, in cases where we have trouble a lot of making up our minds, it may be that having direct access to neuronal activity in these regions of interest may tell us what we "really" prefer (i.e. laceration, or broken phone). so, von, for $500 and a trip to philly, you can have your answer. i'll even throw in a couple drinks of scotch. |
| posted by The Corgi of Mystery @ 11/15/2009 07:23:00 PM |
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| Tuesday, November 10, 2009 |
| erdos number = 8 |
more than a year after first trying to figure out what my erdos number, is, or if i even have one, committee member geoff has come to the rescue by posting his on his lab profile. in 4 days, i'll officially have an in-press co-authored paper with dr. detre (hold your applause), which means the chain goes thusly:
Step 2: John Detre with Eric Zarahn: Aguirre GK, Detre JA, Zarahn E, Alsop DC. 2002. Experimental design and the relative sensitivity of BOLD and perfusion fMRI. Neuroimage. 2002 Mar;15(3):488-500.
Step 3: Eric Zarahn with Karl J. Friston: Friston KJ, Zarahn E, Josephs O, Henson RN, Dale AM. Stochastic designs in event-related fMRI. Neuroimage. 1999 Nov;10(5):607-19.
Step 4: Karl J. Friston with Michael Breakspear: Breakspear M, Terry JR, Friston KJ. Modulation of excitatory synaptic coupling facilitates synchronization and complex dynamics in a biophysical model of neuronal dynamics. Network. 2003 Nov;14(4):703-32.
Step 5: Michael Breakspear with Jalal M. Fadili: Bullmore E, Fadili, J, Breakspear M, Salvador R, Suckling J; Brammer M. Wavelets and statistical analysis of functional magnetic resonance images of the human brain. Stat Methods Med Res. 2003 Oct;12(5):375-99.
Step 6: Jalal M. Fadili with David L. Donoho: Bobin J, Starck JL, Fadili JM, Moudden Y, Donoho DL. Morphological component analysis: an adaptive thresholding strategy. IEEE Trans Image Process. 2007 Nov;16(11):2675-81.
Step 7: David L. Donoho with Charles Kam-tai Chui: Chui, Charles; Donoho, David Special issue on diffusion maps and wavelets. Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis. 21 (2006), no. 1, 1-2.
Step 8: Charles Kam-tai Chui with Paul Erdős: Borosh, I.; Chui, C. K.; Erdős, P. On changes of signs in infinite series. Anal. Math. 4 (1978), no. 1, 3-12.
Yes! One more thing to strike off the bucket list! |
| posted by The Corgi of Mystery @ 11/10/2009 07:37:00 PM |
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Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
About Me: 1980: Born. 1989: Sudden affliction of self-awareness. Things downhill ever since.
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