Sunday, February 28, 2016

From Academia to Social Media

1. I was able to find the author of "Using goal-driven deep learning models to understand sensory cortex", Daniel Yamins, on Facebook.

2. Through Facebook, I discovered much more of the unpublished pieces by the author and much more of his educational background. I skipped the personal information available, but I found he spends his vocational time working at Princeton University and MIT as a researcher after graduating from Harvard. He even explains his in addition to neuroscience, he enjoys writing and researching the psychological aspects of the brain, as he made evident with his latest casual post on Facebook regarding the importance of prediction over explanation in psychological field.

3. His persona does not change much as he maintains his tone from his work to his social media compositions. He uses this other platform to explore a field he does not declare himself an expert in.

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