[Neurobureau-hubs] brainhacker school

[rbrto]

I want 12 months a year of that...

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Pierre Bellec
<pierre.bellec at criugm.qc.ca> wrote:
> @Cameron agreed, 2 weeks is more realistic.
>
> @Daniel, re Banff, there have an on-going program to host workshops in
> mathematics. They may have a long workshop format, I'll look into it. For
> locations, the problem is not much different than hosting a traditional
> brainhack, with maybe more emphasis on local attendants.
>
> @Roberto
> Re Nifti, that's recoding nii2mnc, or even re-inventing the minc format.
> Looks like some folks are taking this task seriously:
> http://www.frontiersin.org/10.3389/conf.fninf.2013.09.00069/event_abstract
>
> Re FSL, you never know what we'll discover.
> http://youtu.be/HdWRTleizFU?t=10m54s
>
> Re HCP, trying to test the level of actual security of their database may
> indeed be interesting & useful.
>
> Now, regarding what this brainhack school would look like, I guess it would
> be like a longer version of brainhack, with most of the time devoted for
> attendants to work on their own projects, self-initiated and managed. We
> would still have well identified education talks & experts of various tools
> available onsite, some general (version control, programming) and some more
> specialized (e.g. AFNI), again very much like brainhack. We could also have
> some more maker-oriented resources, such as 3D printing, EEG set, or even an
> MRI depending on the location (I am pretty sure this could be arranged in
> Montreal or Leipzig for example). Maybe even a vibrating shirt, who knows.
> In two weeks, participants may be able to take advantage of the availability
> of large datasets and computational resources, which has not been the case
> in the short version of brainhack. Also, unlike the short brainhack,
> participants may be able to actually deliver a concrete output. Finally, the
> event should be family friendly for obvious reasons :) I'm sure my kids
> could totally work their way through a two weeks lego projects, especially
> if we throw in some quadropters as well.
>
>
> Pierre Bellec
> http://simexp-lab.org/brainwiki/doku.php?id=pierrebellec
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> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:13 AM, rbrto <robertotoro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes!! Brainhacker school!! We teach people to read the nifti data
>> directly from the file with an hex editor, p0wn the unused fields and
>> write the results in new fancy formats!!! Make FSL do new types of
>> analyses by using buffer overflows, etc :)
>> I'm already loving it!!
>> (anyone tried sql injection in HCP??)
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Daniel Margulies
>> <daniel.margulies at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I love the idea, Pierre,
>> >
>> > Any leads on the possibility of doing this as a retreat at the Banff
>> > Center?
>> > Perhaps there are other locations that might be possible as well?
>> >
>> > Daniel
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:21 AM, Pierre Bellec
>> > <pierre.bellec at criugm.qc.ca>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi guys,
>> >>
>> >> Just ran into this:
>> >> https://www.hackerschool.com/
>> >>
>> >> We should probably try to organize a summer brainhacker school modeled
>> >> after this. 3 months is a tad long, but one month could be doable,
>> >> especially if we get, say, the banff center to host the event.
>> >>
>> >> Best,
>> >>
>> >> Pierre Bellec
>> >> http://simexp-lab.org/brainwiki/doku.php?id=pierrebellec
>> >> Telephone              (1) 514 713 5596
>> >> SIMEXP lab            http://simexp-lab.org
>> >
>> >
>> >
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