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@roaldarbol @bonsai_rx @opencvlibrary @BonVision_ @Raspberry_Pi Write-up hopefully will happen at the time of releasing 2.7 when we have a chance to smooth some of the rough edges.

@bonsai_rx + @opencvlibrary + @BonVision_ + Editor + Visualizers running on a @Raspberry_Pi. Testing out cross-platform support possibilities.

@roaldarbol @bonsai_rx @opencvlibrary @BonVision_ @Raspberry_Pi Only tried USB cameras so far, but if Pi cameras can be accessed through OpenCV camera capture then it should be possible to access them.

@roaldarbol @bonsai_rx @opencvlibrary @BonVision_ @Raspberry_Pi @code This is the actual @code :)

@PathogenDavid @tannergooding I would definitely tune in 😃

My @openneurosci @BonVision_ talk starting soon: 4pm UK, 5pm CET, 11am EST, 8am PST... I'll be demo'ing some exciting new features. We are v interested in feedback and discussing future developments!

Just a couple of years ago I would probably be sitting on the camp saying this is too crazy of an approach to work, but glad to have been proven wrong by @PathogenDavid. I now deeply believe this has the potential to revolutionize the way the .NET community does native interop.

@tiagogmarques @mjoanasa @manuel__pita So many fond memories! ☺️

@mjoanasa @manuel__pita That was a very special one for me as well. Second Ar event and first Ar event that I hosted. Interactive pong game made possible thanks to @glopesdev

@StevenDakin @BonVision_ @eLife We've contacted Tobii about this and unfortunately they clarified they don't support integrating their API into free open-source products without charging a commercial license, even if done for research purposes. Thoughts on Pupil Core?

@BonVision_ @eLife @glopesdev Eyelink 1000 is the closest to a standard we have so that’s a minimum. Tobii support would be next on my list but a VR-based tracker would probably be the most useful given your target applications.

The BonVision paper is now published @elife (elifesciences.org/articles/65541). BonVision is a software that allows easy creation and control of closed-loop visual environments – perfect for all your visual experiments.

We are incredibly excited to announce we are part of the eMOTIONAL Cities project, which will explore how the natural and built urban environments shape brain circuits and human behaviour. Join us to discuss the future of people-centred, robust cities: web2.spi.pt/eMOTIONAL-citi…

@peter_finnie @bonsai_rx @PatMont_ @TheFrontalLobe_ Thanks @peter_finnie it was indeed incredible fun, also my first time patching, thanks everyone for making it so enjoyable!

Which really emphasizes two things: 1) @bonsai_rx is an amazing flexible experimental control system, and.. 2) @glopesdev @PatMont_ @TheFrontalLobe_ and the rest of the team in Minho were brilliant instructors

This is an excellent resource for setting up behavioral/ephys/whatever-you-can-imagine experiments, from an amazing team

Open-source tools are revolutionizing neuroscience. Thanks to @neurogears @MiniscopeTeam @DeepLabCut @OpenEphys and many others, we now have free tools that can all be integrated through @bonsai_rx. We've published a quick guide to help you get started 💪 doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.…

@piamancini @NeilKNet @signalapp As an international umbrella of collectives, isn’t open collective already perfectly positioned to do this? It seems like it would basically be a kind of TransferWise in reverse: quora.com/How-does-Trans…

@NeilKNet @signalapp Because the rationale behind Canadá not letting you is that you pay taxes there and made a donation in theory to another country. It is dated legislation clearly.

Just donated to @signalapp and was happy to do so. But, as a Canadian I couldn’t claim a US 501c3 on tax returns. What infrastructure exists to make nonprofit donations claimable globally? cc @piamancini?

@pfau @jh_jacobsen What I feel is missing are more systematic attempts to articulate coherent frameworks of thought. Not sure about the best format is to encourage this, perhaps through focused collections of articles or even books?

@pfau @jh_jacobsen Aren’t all these replies taken together slightly contradictory? If both high-impact and low-impact journals are out, self-publishing through pre-prints or blog posts is out, and social media is out, what is left really?

Machine learning desperately needs more venues for review articles and position pieces. Normally there would be space for this in a journal, but in a field driven entirely by conferences, this kind of work usually ends up in a blog post or dumped on arXiv.

@StatesWarring In other words, having a receptive mind without an ability to figure out why things are happening leads you into “blind alleys”, which is exactly what we see happening to modern AI too, they get stuck in their own self generated biases, unable to transcend them.

@StatesWarring I take that is a valid argument (even if I disagree), but I still don’t see how it follows from your comments above on Taoism (which were great btw). It seems to me you are giving a specific ML technique way too much credit in understanding how the world works.

What’s the difference between studying and learning? This has come up a few times lately on ancient China twitter, so strap yourselves in, put on some lo-fi beats, and let’s do this.

@StatesWarring A great thread, but I really don’t understand how this claim about gradient descent follows from anything you have said above. Gradient descent is about a method of optimization w.r.t to a well-defined cost function. Human learning is anything but well defined.

In other words, learning is a gradient descent function: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient_…

@UnoPlatform @bonsai_rx We currently have the core fully ported to .NET 5.0 and would happily directly develop the port and even support it in several ways, including financially if there was a path to collaboration. This is FOSS but happy to DM for more details.

@UnoPlatform This is exactly what we would like to do for the @bonsai_rx IDE. Its a visual programming language, so depends heavily on its graphical interface for editing and debugging. Its basically a micro-VS on top of Winforms with a property grid, a nuget package manager, and debugger.

We are looking for a CHALLENGE - to dogfood Uno on a real project that's useful to developers. We want to port an existing OSS Windows project to WebAssembly, mobile, macOS, Linux. Something like NuGet Package Explorer or MSBuild Log Viewer. What should we port? Ideas👇please