John Butler
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Maths/Stats/Comp/Neuro Lecturer @WeAreTUDublin and Neuroscience Researcher | @neuromatch | Husband | Dad | All opinions and typos expressed are my own | he/him
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I couldn't decide between these jokes for the last Sunday of Maths Week Ireland:
1) The amazing talking sheepdog and his shepherd are competing...
Dog: 'Well, that's all one hundred sheep accounted for.'
Shepherd: 'I only see ninety eight?'
Dog: 'Don't worry, I rounded them up.'
Q for clinical neurophysiologists and movement disorders specialists: what hardware and software do you use to perform and analyze simultaneous EEG and EMG, to investigate the cortical correlates of movements? RTs appreciated! #ClinicalNeuroph #EEG #AcademicEEG
As it is a slow news day.
Here is a retweet of my last years Maths Week Ireland podcast recommendations.
This year additions are:
+ BBC More or Less
+ The Joy of Why by Steven Strogatz
+ A Problem Squared by
Matt Parker & Bec Hill
#MathsWeek2022
Did you get today's special delivery in the The Irish Times?
Our #MathsWeek2022 poster celebrates women in maths and includes a brainteaser puzzle page. It's the perfect way to challenge your problem-solving skills!
Department of Education SETU President SFI Calmast SETU
Human Psychophysics on Bayesian Behavior was my life for well more than a decade. Now
Justin Brantley finds it in baseball on millions of pitches. Linear response to perturbations, manipulations of priors, human Behavior appears Bayesian.
Really impressive BrightClubIreland set by Richard Roche combining audience participation and frank sidebottom to illustrate the beauty of the visual cortex.
A Maths Week Ireland joke for 19th Sunday after Pentecost:
While he was still speaking to the crowds, Jesus said to them, 'y = x² + 3x - 4'. Afterwards, the disciples came and asked him, “Lord, why do you speak to them in parabolas?”
Great books about maths for Maths Week Ireland 2022:
• Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
• The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data
by David Spiegelhalter
• The Joy of X by Steven Strogatz
• Get in the Game by Tim Chartier