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All-optical entirely passive laser scanning with MHz rates
Is it possible to let a laser beam scan over an angle without moving any mechanical parts to deflect the beam? It is. One strategy is to use a very short-pulsed laser beam: A short pulse width means a finite … Continue reading
The most interesting machine learning AMAs on Reddit
It is very clear that Reddit is part of the rather wild zone of the internet. But especially for practical questions, Reddit can be very useful, and even more so for anything connected to the internet or computer technology, like machine … Continue reading
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Tagged deep learning, machine learning, Python, theoretical neuroscience
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How deconvolution of calcium data degrades with noise
How does the noisiness of the recorded calcium data affect the performance of spiking-inferring deconvolution algorithms? I cannot offer a rigorous treatment of this question (Update August 2020: Now I have treated this question rigorously.) , but some intuitive examples. … Continue reading
A convolutional network to deconvolve calcium traces, living in an embedding space of statistical properties
As mentioned before (here and here), the spikefinder competition was set up earlier this year to compare algorithms that infer spiking probabilities from calcium imaging data. Together with Stephan Gerhard, a PostDoc in our lab, I submitted an algorithm based on convolutional networks. Looking … Continue reading
A blog about neurophysiology 