User:Paskari

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Hello this is a work in progress. I'm hoping to do all my research on this site, such that other students may benefit from my findings, and hopefully, they can help me as well

I am doing my PhD research in the field of artificial intelligence, most specifically pertaining to Neural Plasticity

Contents 1 About me 2 Wiki Pet Peeves 3 Journal Pet Peeves 4 Things that bother me on a general basis 5 Companies that have driven me insane 6 School 7 Studies 8 Motivation 9 Goal 10 Report 1 11 Report 2 12 Report 3 13 Reportex Maximus 14 Cities I've visited 15 pages to create images for 16 Books 17 See Also 18 Suggested Papers

[edit] About me

• I like visiting foreign countries such that I can learn to say 'I love you' in different languages
• I like going to parties with few women such that when I don't pick up I can claim that there were no girls there
• I like waking up with a hangover and claiming that I am never drinking again.

[edit] Wiki Pet Peeves

Here is a list of things that really pisses me off on certain wiki pages

1. pages with no pictures whatsoever
2. pages with too high a level of language
3. pages where the train of thought is hard to follow

[edit] Journal Pet Peeves

1. I hate scholars who purposely use big words like 'ambidextrous' knowing plain well no one knows what that word means
2. I hate scholars who use synonyms interchangably and without warning, for example : Neuron, Nerve cell, cell, nerve, or simply applying an action to it such as "the Sodium ion moves against its electrochemical gradient"
3. I hate scholars who push printers to their limit by making the text as small as humanly possible
4. I hate scholars that turn reading into carpet weaving by placing adjacent lines so close to eachother, that one could not fit a pubic hair between them
5. I hate how MIT actually expects me to dish out $10 US just for one of their pointless papers.
6. I hate how scholars exploit acronyms to the state of statutary rape: "Electronic stimulation of SCs, in the presence of the GABA type A (GABAa) elicit inward currents of NG2..."
7. Fnally, I hate scholars who try to paint a pretty picture about how Jane goodal discovered some interesting attributes of monkeys, and you're trying to incorporate that into your journal, and I think that's great, and your parents must be really proud, but I don't give a fuck.

[edit] Things that bother me on a general basis

1. People who send me an e-mail with 37 pictures which I have to first scan for a virus, then manually save it
2. When a girl tells me she isn't stubborn but then stubbronly defends her position

[edit] Companies that have driven me insane

1. Sky satellite: they make me enter a pin every time I want to watch a PG13 movie
2. BT internet: I get about 16 Kbps...if I wanted dial up, I would of opted for it
3. HSBC: how hard is it to mail my card to my home address?

[edit] School

I am a first year PhD student at the University of Southampton in the department of Electronics and Computer Science. I am studying artificial intelligence, but my main area of research is in Biologically inspired plasticity in a silicon cortex.

I receieved my undergraduate degree at York University in computer science in 2006.

[edit] Studies

I am currently involved in a project with the University of Manchester, creating a multichip computer called Spinnaker. We are hoping to model biological plasticity on a silicon cortex.

[edit] Motivation

I wanted to create this page for several reasons:

1. The wiki mark up language is incredibly powerful.
2. I am hoping other people will guide me in my studies
3. Notebooks lack the concept of a link
4. I'm hoping a hot older women were stumble across this site and take an interest in me

I am hoping to put together enough knowledge into this site, and get enough feedback from other people, that will allow me to better model neural plasticity on a computer

[edit] Goal

main article

My PhD requires that I build a computer with the following attributes

• models virtual neurons
• neuronal interaction carried out by virtual synapses
• virtual NGF ensures plasticity of neurons

[edit] Report 1

What is plasticity in Biology

Biological plasticity is the ability of an organism to adapt its biological structure to conform to certain environmental changes. Determining what causes this adaptation has proven to be nontrivial, even with the recent advances in biology and neuroscience. This paper will discuss some of the models which have been proposed for the plasticity of the human brain, as well as different computational models.

Full Report

[edit] Report 2

In this second report I have to present a biological model which I can map onto the spinnaker project. The model has to be chosen from one of the options below:

• an insect
• a simple animal
• a specific region of an animals brain

any help anyone could give would be greatly appreciated

Full Report

[edit] Report 3

In this report I will be focusing more on the LGN (Lateral Geniculate Nuisance) since that is where my project seems to be headed. As it turns out we have a case of The Three Bears; the retina is too simple and too well documented, the Visual Cortex is too complicated and completely unchartered, the LGN is just right. Unfortunately the LGN is also the biggest pain in the ass since there isn't enough documentation on it. As a side project I will also create a report on the visual pathway to get a better understanding of how the visual pathway operates, I shall call it Reportex Maximus

Full Report

[edit] Reportex Maximus

This is just my pitiful attempt to remove some of the clutter of the visual pathway since books are so poor at doing it.

Full Report

[edit] Cities I've visited

Abu dhabi

Amsterdam

Aswan

Athens

Barcelona

Baku

Bonn

Boston

Brussels

Buffalo

Cairo

Cancun

Cannes

Colon/Koln

Corfu/Keykyra

Dallas

Dubai

Dusseldorf

Edinburgh

Edmonton

Frankfurt

Geneva

Hamburg

Ibiza

Interlock

Istanbul

Kelowna

London

Los Angelas

Las Vegas

Luxor

Maine

Mauii

Miami

Milan

Monte Carlo

Montreal

New York city

Nice

Orlando

Ottawa

Paris

Pheonix

Phillidelphia

Puerta Vallerta

Rome

Seatle

Sharm El Sheikhe

Skagway

Tehran

Thessaloniki

Toronto

Venice

Washington

[edit] pages to create images for

Supervised learning

[edit] Books

here is a list of books I have recently read (updated regularly)

1. In Search of Enemies (John Stockwell)
2. Praetorian Guard (John Stockwell)
3. Rogue States (Noam Chomsky)
4. Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (Noam Chomsky)
5. Imperial Ambitions (Noam Chomsky)
6. Failed States (Noam Chomsky)
7. Rogue States (Noam Chomsky)
8. Media Monopoly (Ben Bagdikian)
9. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (Daniel Yergin)
10. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ (Sue Townsend)
11. The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (Sue Townsend)
12. The Trial of Henry Kissinger (Christopher Hitchens)
13. The Missionary Position (book) (Christopher Hitchens)
14. No One Left to Lie to (Christopher Hitchens)
15. Born to Steal: When the Mafia Hit Wall Street ( Gary Weiss)
16. The End of Oil: The Decline of the Petroleum Economy and the Rise of a New Energy Order (Paul Roberts)
17. How Companies Lie: Why Enron is Just the Tip of the Iceberg (A.Larry Elliott)
18. Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution (Chrystia Freeland)
19. The Twelve Caesars (Suetonius)
20. Globalization and Its Discontents (Joseph E. Stiglitz)
21. The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome (Robin Lane Fox)
22. Ten Days That Shook the World (John Reed)
23. China Inc.: The Relentless Rise of the Next Great Superpower (Ted Fishman)
24. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Noam Chomsky)
25. What's This India Business? Offshoring, Outsourcing and the Global Services Revolution (Paul Davies)
26. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: volume 1 (Edward Gibbon)
27. I, Claudius (Robert Graves)
28. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden (Steve Coll)
29. The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (Robert Fisk)
30. The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 (David Ray Griffin)
31. The Gas We Pass (Shinta Cho)

[edit] See Also

Dynamical system
Polychronization
Blue Gene
Spike timing dependent plasticity
Connectionism
Self-organizing map
Self Organizing map 2
Self Organizing map 3
Self Organizing map 4
Brain-computer interface
Perceptron
Radial Basis Function
Glial cell Metaplasticity

[edit] Suggested Papers

Letter to the editor
Neural Networks and Physical Systems (Hopfield)