Hello this is a work in progress. I'm hoping to do all my research on this site, such that other students may benefit from my findings, and hopefully, they can help me as well
I am doing my PhD research in the field of artificial intelligence, most specifically pertaining to Neural Plasticity
About me
I like visiting foreign countries such that I can learn to say 'I love you' in different languages
I like going to parties with few women such that when I don't pick up I can claim that there were no girls there
I like waking up with a hangover and claiming that I am never drinking again.
I like picking up a chic from a club, brining her home, then immediately scheming on how to 'pick up chix'
I like shooting down girls that are clearly interested in me then crying about it the next day
You twat!!
Wiki Pet Peeves
Here is a list of things that really pisses me off on certain wiki pages
pages with no pictures whatsoever
pages with too high a level of language
pages where the train of thought is hard to follow
Journal Pet Peeves
I hate scholars who purposely use big words like 'ambidextrous' knowing plain well no one knows what that word means
I hate scholars who use synonyms interchangably and without warning, for example : Neuron, Nerve cell, cell, nerve, or simply applying an action to it such as "the Sodium ion moves against its electrochemical gradient"
I hate scholars who push printers to their limit by making the text as small as humanly possible
I hate scholars that turn reading into carpet weaving by placing adjacent lines so close to eachother, that one could not fit a pubic hair between them
I hate how MIT actually expects me to dish out $10 US just for one of their pointless papers.
I hate how scholars exploit acronyms to the state of statutary rape: "Electronic stimulation of SCs, in the presence of the GABA type A (GABAa) elicit inward currents of NG2..."
I hate journals that start with 'we now have more knowledge on this subject...' well clearly you don't have enough fuckin knowledge to finish the research
I hate how journals list the bibliography alphabetically, but then make references to collections of papers chronologically.
I hate journals that use fancy dancy words like 'spatio-temporal' when 'time and space' would work just as well
Fnally, I hate scholars who try to paint a pretty picture about how Jane goodal discovered some interesting attributes of monkeys, and you're trying to incorporate that into your journal, and I think that's great, and your parents must be really proud, but I don't give a fuck.
Things that bother me on a general basis
People who send me an e-mail with 37 pictures which I have to first scan for a virus, then manually save it
When a girl tells me she isn't stubborn but then stubbronly defends her position
Clubs that play hip hop...get over it
People who are cheap
How windows takes 10 minutes to boot, but a mac only takes 15 seconds
How people are so indoctrinated that they think it's normal to purchase a new copy of MS Word every time MS dishes out a new crappy OS
People who are intolerant of other people's culture
The Dutch
Companies that have driven me insane
Sky satellite: they make me enter a pin every time I want to watch a PG13 movie
BT internet: I get about 16 Kbps...if I wanted dial up, I would of opted for it
HSBC: how hard is it to mail my card to my home address?
Easyjet: why are the queues longer than at the DMV?
For your eyes only: how hard is it to give me a lap dance?
I am currently involved in a project with the University of Manchester, creating a multichip computer called Spinnaker. We are hoping to model biological plasticity on a silicon cortex.
Motivation
I wanted to create this page for several reasons:
The wiki mark up language is incredibly powerful.
I am hoping other people will guide me in my studies
Notebooks lack the concept of a link
I'm hoping a hot older women were stumble across this site and take an interest in me
I am hoping to put together enough knowledge into this site, and get enough feedback from other people, that will allow me to better model neural plasticity on a computer
Goal
main article
My PhD requires that I build a computer with the following attributes
models virtual neurons
neuronal interaction carried out by virtual synapses
Biological plasticity is the ability of an organism to adapt its biological structure to conform to certain environmental changes. Determining what causes this adaptation has proven to be nontrivial, even with the recent advances in biology and neuroscience. This paper will discuss some of the models which have been proposed for the plasticity of the human brain, as well as different computational models.
In this second report I have to present a biological model which I can map onto the spinnaker project. The model has to be chosen from one of the options below:
an insect
a simple animal
a specific region of an animals brain
any help anyone could give would be greatly appreciated
In this report I will be focusing more on the LGN (Lateral Geniculate Nuisance) since that is where my project seems to be headed. As it turns out we have a case of The Three Bears; the retina is too simple and too well documented, the Visual Cortex is too complicated and completely unchartered, the LGN is just right. Unfortunately the LGN is also the biggest pain in the ass since there isn't enough documentation on it. As a side project I will also create a report on the visual pathway to get a better understanding of how the visual pathway operates, I shall call it Reportex Maximus