This space is for sharing thoughts that touch on neuroscience, biology, science, and even broader topics, but that don't fit into the other categories on this website.
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| Chaos in the brickyard (1963) Bernard K. Forscher. A cautionary parable about atheoretical culture in Biology, a trend which has mostly gotten worse since this was written.Note: this looks like it's behind a paywall, but in fact the entire one-page essay is readable on the "preview". |
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| A quote from Helmholtz about the experience of pursuing science |
| If Biology has been using Statistics wrong, how did it get so much right? (2021) A brief comment about the p value pretense, in the context of the reproducibility crisis and science reform. Originally drafted as a letter to the editor of a journal, but not published. Also note that I optimistically created a blog just to post this one entry, but never posted another one. |
| What is the function of the brain? (1996) A very brief statement written with care at the beginning of my career as a Theoretical Neuroscientist, capturing the essential framework that has underlain my subsequent work. |
Some other historical documents I may eventually more fully edit or annotate; for now accessed via the Wayback Machine.
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| Natural Scene Statistics, Monterey CA 1995 (Notes from a workshop at the CNS'95 meeting) |
