As someone who doesn't have a degree that gets contracted to work with/help build (hardware/software) such tools like EEG devices and fMRI's to make them usable for people with PhD's where most don't really understand the physics behinds such systems and having seen first hand how bastardized the academic process™ has become, its laughable to think that just because things may have been one way in the past, means that it will continue to be the way in the future. So much waste, which means so much opportunity…
>You also don't have access to a NMR, or an fMRI, or any number of hundreds of others of tools that cost $100k - 1m+
I call bullshit, because if you think outside of the box and have a friend who has access (which many people on HN probably do know someone who does), you can always jump in on their pilots in exchange for whatever works for you both. But outside the box thinking is definitely not apart curriculum for most researchers… unless such was prescribed in the literature lol
>There is so much disrespect for institutions
Damn right, but doesn't stop them from trying to co-opt a generation after having loaded them up on debt to feed the gravy train, and I don't see why individuals can't do the same to institutions.
>…and what we as a people are capable of when we systemize.…
People are not limited to existing institutions, we can seek beyond.
>I understand the appreciation for decentralization and the FOSS model behind technology but there is so often a complete unwillingness to show any respect to any centralization at all, it's very strange.
Here's a hardware/software FOSS project[0] of a bunch of different people from many orgs and some without for electrophysiology research, and this stuff is just the beginning once all the contributors (and others like them) realize they can pursue their other interests in life with out constraining themselves to the academic process™.
If anyone in the boston/prov area is interested potentially doing some software/hardware work or want to connect more to stuff like this and has a software + mathematics + physics background or side interests and not involved now, you can contact me at my username at NSA's favorite email provider (gmail) :P
>You also don't have access to a NMR, or an fMRI, or any number of hundreds of others of tools that cost $100k - 1m+
I call bullshit, because if you think outside of the box and have a friend who has access (which many people on HN probably do know someone who does), you can always jump in on their pilots in exchange for whatever works for you both. But outside the box thinking is definitely not apart curriculum for most researchers… unless such was prescribed in the literature lol
>There is so much disrespect for institutions
Damn right, but doesn't stop them from trying to co-opt a generation after having loaded them up on debt to feed the gravy train, and I don't see why individuals can't do the same to institutions.
>…and what we as a people are capable of when we systemize.…
People are not limited to existing institutions, we can seek beyond.
>I understand the appreciation for decentralization and the FOSS model behind technology but there is so often a complete unwillingness to show any respect to any centralization at all, it's very strange.
Here's a hardware/software FOSS project[0] of a bunch of different people from many orgs and some without for electrophysiology research, and this stuff is just the beginning once all the contributors (and others like them) realize they can pursue their other interests in life with out constraining themselves to the academic process™.
If anyone in the boston/prov area is interested potentially doing some software/hardware work or want to connect more to stuff like this and has a software + mathematics + physics background or side interests and not involved now, you can contact me at my username at NSA's favorite email provider (gmail) :P
[0]https://github.com/open-ephys