[Neurobureau-hubs] brainhacker school

Tue Jan 20 12:06:32 PST 2015

MBI was an exceptional workshop that has had a great impact on my career.
Unfortunately nothing similar to it exists anymore. I wouldn't advocate the
same number of talks. But I think it has to have more talks than a typical
brainhack. Maybe 50/50? We need to be able to show a clear course
curriculum with explicit goals so that it is a "no brainer" for supervisors
to send their students and postdocs.

I am not sure about the publication part. I think it is better if the
publication arises organically from the school rather than being a mandated
part of it. If it is the latter, I think we will fail.

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:24 PM, rbrto <robertotoro at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> >
> > If we would use this schedule as an initial guide, we would certainly
> have to update it and include some hands-on time.
> >
> >
> > 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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