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I know that what I know is not all I can know. Math geek, Neuroscientist to be. Postdoc at UPenn.
May 21, 2019 18 tweets 5 min read
1/ New paper on “Quantifying how staining methods bias measurements of neuron morphologies”:
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
The logic of the paper: 2/ The morphology of neurons has amazed neuroscientists from the dawn of neuroscience. Ramón y Cajal, the pioneering neuroscientist, drew many neurons using the Golgi staining method.
Apr 5, 2019 19 tweets 5 min read
(1/N) Just up on arXiv: "On the functions computed on trees".
arxiv.org/abs/1904.02309
A little tour around the paper... (2/N) Neural networks are versatile computational tools. Their math is simple: they repeatedly compose previously constructed functions with simple functions, e.g. linear and sigmoid. Which functions could be generated this way?