Patrick and I mostly discuss his path from a technician in the then nascent Jim DiCarlo lab, through his graduate school and two postdoc experiences, and finally landing a faculty position, plus the culture and issues in academia in general. We also cover plenty of science, like the role of eye movements in the study of vision, the neuroscience (and concept) of attention, what Patrick thinks of the deep learning hype, and more.
But, this is a special episode, less about the science and more about the experience of an academic neuroscience trajectory/life. Episodes like this will appear in Patreon supporters' private feeds from now on.
Show notes:
Megan and I discuss her work using metacognition as a way to study subjective awareness, or confidence. We talk about using computational and neural...
Ida and I discuss the current landscape of reinforcement learning in both natural and artificial intelligence, and how the old story of two RL...
It’s generally agreed machine learning and AI provide neuroscience with tools for analysis and theoretical principles to test in brains, but there is less...
