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Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Untrue
This is a piece about the present state, and potential future, of fraud in scientific research which I wrote for a Responsible Conduct in Research course taught at Columbia. There seems to be a trend...
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Unsupervised Thinking: A new podcast on neuroscience and Artificial...
Hey All, Long time no blog! And, yes, as with most grad school bloggers that was initially out of too much work, distraction, and a touch of laziness. But more recently, it’s because I’ve started a new...
View ArticleIs Math Invented or Discovered?: An Argument for Invention
Steven Strogatz, the popular applied mathematician and educator, recently tweeted a link to a paper on the question of whether mathematics is something that was invented or discovered: Is mathematics...
View ArticleModeling the Impact of Internal State on Sensory Processing: An Introduction
Current wisdom says that–with the exception of those that go on to great scientific fame–a PhD student’s thesis will be read by at most the 5 or so professors on their dissertation committee. Because...
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Consciousness Revisited
A recent twitterstorm involving claims about the ascendance of theories of “panpsychism” and the damage that poor philosophizing can do to the study of consciousness has gotten me thinking about...
View ArticleDoes AI work like the brain? And how can we know?
A piece I wrote has just been published in the online magazine Aeon. It tries to tackle the question of whether AI—currently powered by artificial neural networks—actually works like the brain. And...
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Deep Convolutional Neural Networks as Models of the Visual System: Q&A
EDIT: An updated and expanded form of this blogpost has been published as a review article in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. If you would like to credit this post, please cite that article. The...
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Models of the Mind: How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our...
I wrote a book! As some of you may know, in summer of 2018 I signed a contract with Bloomsbury Sigma to write a book about my area of research: computational neuroscience. Though the term has many...
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An Introduction to the Lindsay Lab: What we are researching and why
Hello all! I have recently started a new position as an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Data Science at New York University. You can find my lab website here: lindsay-lab.github.io As you’ll...
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So you’re an academic who wants to help with the climate crisis?
With the hottest days in recorded history, oceans reaching 100°F, droughts, and wildfire air turning the sky orange, it takes little more than walking out your door to be reminded of the ongoing...
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