[Neurobureau-hubs] brainhacker school

[rbrto]

work to publish a paper? like the 1 month things at Santa Fe institut
for complex systems... People were very happy to come, because they
would have a paper by the end of the month

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Chris Filo Gorgolewski
<krzysztof.gorgolewski at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a pretty cool idea, but Mike is right - we need to figure out how to
> make it easy for participants to convince their supervisors to get funding
> for this.
>
> Best,
> Chris
>
> On Mon Jan 19 2015 at 7:37:37 AM rbrto <robertotoro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> > Telephone              (1) 514 713 5596
>> > SIMEXP lab            http://simexp-lab.org
>> >
>> > 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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