I’ve spent the last two weeks in Finland visiting friends and colleagues*. As always, I enjoyed all the meetings and discussions, both planned and spontaneous – and had less time than expected for coding. So, this work lately post will be just a quick update on the status of ROI optimization. * And, the most …
Continue reading A good enough way to define brain network nodes
As one can see from my work lately posts (here and here), a significant part of my day-to-day work consists of programming. Nowadays I’m pretty used to that. However, sometimes I still stop to wonder what has happened. How did somebody like me with no interest to use computer for anything beyond reading email end …
Continue reading How I learned to code (and why everybody else should do the same)
Do you remember my post about optimizing spatial consistency of Regions of Interest (or ROIs), brain areas used as nodes of functional brain networks? There, we clumped similarly-behaving fMRI voxels together using a priority queues. This time, let’s see what’s up with my priority queues. At the same time, we’ll face a core component of …
Nowadays, the Finnish doctoral dissertations are typically article-based. In other words, the main body of the dissertation consists of research articles, typically around four, that have already been published or at least submitted to a journal. To tie these articles together, the dissertation starts with a summary part that describes the main research questions and …
The 3rd Brain Twitter Conference #BrainTC will take place on March 14th – that is, on Thursday this week. In the last days, I’ve spent quite a bit of time proof-reading the conference programme. Effectively, I’ve read all the presentation titles and most of the abstracts at least twice. Therefore, this may well be the …
Today is what I consider as my academic birthday: on this day last year I defended my doctoral thesis and, after a successful defense, got recommended to be awarded the doctoral degree. To celebrate my birthday, this post will be about the doctoral defense in Finland. Of course, defending one’s thesis is an essential part …
We received a record-breaking number of abstracts for #brainTC! The abstract evaluation is in progress and keeps me busy - I'll be back next week.
