• May 15, 2016

  Multi-arm bandits and the conflict between exploration and exploitation

  We have recently started a reading group on reinforcement learning with a group of colleagues, following the draft of the second edition of Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction by Sutton and Barto. The PDF version of the book is available on the book website; we are using the draft from October 2015 (currently the latest one).

• Feb 4, 2016

  How to download Human Connectome Project data from Amazon Web Services

  All public releases of data produced by the Human Connectome Project (HCP) are available online through the ConnectomeDB. Nevertheless, I’ve had trouble running the Aspera Connect browser plugin – that’s required to download data from the database – on my Ubuntu machine (it crashes whenever I want to initiate a download).