[Neurobureau-hubs] brainhacker school

Tue Jan 20 11:24:29 PST 2015

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Alexandre Franco <eng.franco at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, it was intense. And it was only lectures.

hahaha, sounds more like brainwasher than brainhacker :D

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> If we would use this schedule as an initial guide, we would certainly have to update it and include some hands-on time.
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> On Jan 20, 2015, at 17:04, rbrto <robertotoro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> it's quite a lot of lectures....  is there any practical part ?
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Alexandre R Franco
>> <eng.franco at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This is what Cameron is talking about:
>>> http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/summer-schools/summer-school-mathematics-in-brain-imaging/?tab=schedule
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 20, 2015, at 3:50 PM, Cameron Craddock <cameron.craddock at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I would like to being back the old mathmatics in brain imaging format. That
>>> was two weeks and well attended.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Jan 20, 2015, at 12:43 PM, rbrto <robertotoro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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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