jdpigeon

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by jdpigeon 9y ago
I do this exact thing. And make jokes to my team about how I practice "beverage-driven development"
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
Too early to tell with regards to concentration, fatigue, or any measure directly related to productivity. We can get good classification of basic eyes-closed-alpha and are hoping our ML approach (RNNs + LSTM) and enough data will carry us
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
"In the morning, there is a peak of productivity around 10AM, then it decreases until lunch time. After lunch, it starts to increase with a peak around 4PM, then it starts to decrease from 4PM until 7PM. Then, again, starting from 8PM,
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
Mostly for fun, but also to 'optimize this experience', I'm building a Pomodoro android app that adjusts work duration based on brainwave data from an EEG headband: https://github.com/NeuroTechx/neurodo
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
If anyone's interested in neuroscience and machine learning, we're working on a fun little project to use EEG to track focus and optimize productivity here: https://github.com/neurotechx/neurodoro
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
Absolutely, though the fine-grained ness of that interaction won't be very good for a while. People are working right now on replicating some classic BCI paradigms with these consumer headsets (i.e. motor imagery and the P300 speller).
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
If you're interested in developing software for the Muse or other commercial EEG systems, check out the NeuroTechX community. We've got several open-source projects that we'd love to have some more contributors on. A lot of u
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
Former Alzheimer's researcher here. I've never heard of this before. Some cursory googling only turns up a sole author publication by Alan MacDonald in Medical Hypotheses and a few news pieces by dodgy organizations like the Spiro
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
Hang in there, buddy. It sounds like you've got a lot of actually useful skills and I think you and your family will do fine in the long run. Even if you end up going back to a "safe but soulless" job.
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
Absolutely my experience as well. The grad students I've seen make it to professorship positions are all the ones who: 1. Sacrifice all social life outside science. 2. Play the schmoozing and reputation management game very well (Twitt
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
No, I was actually pretty surprised by how ridiculous some of her statements sounded. Still, encouraging traffic to a site like campusreform.com makes me feel queasy.
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
Happened at the University of Toronto, which is definitely a large research university http://torontosun.com/2017/03/17/protesters-crash-controvers...
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
This website really seems to have an agenda and isn't a source I would qualify as good journalism. For anyone who's interested in the story, here's an interview with the professor. Admittedly, from an interviewer who's p
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
I volunteered at a few food co-ops and student-run cafes during both undergrad and graduate school. It got me out of my bubble of science/technology classmates and exposed me to a lot of this world. There was never any bad behaviour, j
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
This sounds almost too good to be true. It's published in a lower impact journal so I'm wondering if the sample size was very small. Also, how did they confirm the 'topography of the pathophysiology' (where the disease i
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
Instead of creating another level of abstraction that a dev has to learn, how about just creating smart IDE tools that help with Redux? E.g. noticing that you're creating another action and automatically creating a statement in the red
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
I'll be there to work on EEG 101, a neuroscience teaching app for Android that uses real EEG data from the Muse headband. https://github.com/NeuroTechX/eeg-101 I'm actually the main developer on the app and f
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
Mmmm, that sounds good. The first time HN has made me hungry.
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
It's interesting to consider this article in light of the fact that the most ubiquitous and successful bird species are all drab and without much sexual dimorphism (crows, sparrows, gulls)
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by jdpigeon 9y ago
I'm assuming it could run on a raspberry pi? Also, any plans to write plugins for Spotify or Google Play back end?
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by jdpigeon 10y ago
Their app does a fairly impressive job of giving feedback to help you stay on track during meditation. However, the cool thing about Muse, IMO, is that it's cheap, comfortable (moreso than the Emotiv), gives reasonable signal quality,
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by jdpigeon 10y ago
"In our research, we have found that financial dependence is associated with a lack of passion, creativity and drive, and is also associated with feelings of resentment towards whomever controls the purse strings. Money is a powerful r
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by jdpigeon 10y ago
I'd like to hear more about this as well as a community I'm a part of has been dealing with some issues around inclusivity
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by jdpigeon 10y ago
This was in my top 5 books I read last year. Highly recommend it. One good thing about it is it also includes biographies of lots of other interesting greats like Darwin and Muir.
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by jdpigeon 10y ago
Don't WFH days feel the best when they're in the middle of the week? That way they break up the 'daily grind' feeling and give you the opportunity for deep work right in the middle of a weekly sprint.
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by jdpigeon 10y ago
That was where my mind went as well. We can't ignore the incredible feats of neuroplasticity that undoubtedly happen in a split brain patient over a decade.That would make an interesting body of work in and of itself.
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by jdpigeon 10y ago
I'm worried about the inter-generational effect of UBI. What happens to the kids in a family who plays WoW all day? What if neighbourhoods become segregated between workers and non-workers? How are kids going to learn to develop market
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by jdpigeon 10y ago
That's another thing I was hoping he'd define sooner or later in the article. However, if this was extracted from a book it makes a little more sense.
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by jdpigeon 10y ago
This guy's writing style is insufferable. Basically, 'let me introduce an abstract, technical concept, criticize the reader for not knowing it, and then not define it until halfway through the article' Dropping words like &#x
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by jdpigeon 10y ago
It was the second year of my "read books like an adult" effort and there were some great ones: Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)* I was blown away by how completely delightful it was to read. I went in to it with a lot of tre

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