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I think a lot of it has to do with tribal politics from a the outset of the project that were never reconciled. The goal of the project was ambitious and inspir
by buboard 7y ago
I think a lot of it has to do with tribal politics from a the outset of the project that were never reconciled. The goal of the project was ambitious and inspiring, but such project requires contribution from everyone in the neuro community. Sadly it has not delivered usable output as a project. It has not produced landmark datasets and i have not found any important software to use from it. I still believe the vision is valid but it needs an Apollo-level focus in execution
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- Jweb_Guru 7y agoThe neuro community correctly viewed this project as a massive scam. Blaming them for not going along with it seems shortsighted to me.
- buboard 7y agoI think criticism was overblown as well. The many thousands of small electrophysiology projects testing a single hypothesis also cost a ton of money and mice lives, and do not have ambitious goals. A concerted, centralized effort often breeds spectacular results.
- marmaduke 7y agoAfter the community push back in 2015, this is no longer true. Most of the software is being open sourced, and the data from the BigBrain project is already open and will complement similar sized data from Allen Institute and the HCP. I work for a work package leader for the next round of funding, and the European Commission seems to be demanding a Apollo level focus nowadays.
- dmix 7y agoHow can they get Apollo level focus if they can’t get early NASAs complete buy in from academic and private industry (across multiple nato countries). It seems it’s having trouble even getting credibility with in neuroscience. Which is absolutely necessary if you want the level of talent that Apollo required.