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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 1 Feb 2013

    Billion-Euro Brain Boondoggle? Gary Marcus on why we are not yet ready to simulate the brain - http://FT.com http://on.ft.com/XNAetQ 

    11:50 AM - 1 Feb 2013
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      2. KordingLab‏ @KordingLab 1 Feb 2013
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker @GaryMarcus Some new techniques might produce the necessary data in 5 years time http://buff.ly/WIsZH6  http://buff.ly/PUKq6K 

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      3. Gary Marcus‏ @GaryMarcus 1 Feb 2013
        Replying to @KordingLab

        @KordingLab even if we had all the "necessary" human brain data, would we know what to do with it? Am still waiting for a good @OpenWorm sim

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      4. KordingLab‏ @KordingLab 3 Feb 2013
        Replying to @GaryMarcus

        @OpenWorm How well can people sysID neural responses in the worm wrt the presynaptic neurons akin GLM models in cortex? THX @GaryMarcus

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      5. OpenWorm‏ @OpenWorm 3 Feb 2013
        Replying to @KordingLab

        @KordingLab not 100% clear what your question is but sounds interesting. Post on a q/a site like quora or stack exchange biology and link?

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      6. KordingLab‏ @KordingLab 3 Feb 2013
        Replying to @OpenWorm

        @OpenWorm Wrote down the question in some detail - thanks for pointing me to bio stack exchange - didnt know them.http://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/7055/systems-identification-in-small-neural-network …

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      7. OpenWorm‏ @OpenWorm 3 Feb 2013
        Replying to @KordingLab

        @KordingLab awesome! having a read over your paper and will answer but want to point @AndrewLeifer at this too:http://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/7055/systems-identification-in-small-neural-network …

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      8. KordingLab‏ @KordingLab 4 Feb 2013
        Replying to @OpenWorm

        @OpenWorm @AndrewLeifer Thanks for great answer athttp://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/7055/systems-identification-in-small-neural-network/7057#7057 …

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      9. OpenWorm‏ @OpenWorm 4 Feb 2013
        Replying to @KordingLab

        @KordingLab @andrewleifer 's answer wins- no need for us to weigh in :)

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      1. Gary Marcus‏ @GaryMarcus 2 Feb 2013
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        @sapinker @__Vandervell__ Tx for Brain Sim RT. You might also enjoy my sci and tech blogs at The New Yorker http://tinyurl.com/gfmtny 

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      1. Taurus Colvin‏ @tauruscolvin 2 Feb 2013
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        @sapinker As boondoggles go, I'll take it. 1.2B has been spent on worse. Go #bluebrain

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      1. Vytautas Kerbelis‏ @VKerbelis 1 Feb 2013
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        @sapinker Hans Lukas Teuber MIT pioneer on brain disease told me 1973 problem experiment is the moment you touch the brain changes forever

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      1. 3PP Movies‏ @3PennyMovies 1 Feb 2013
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        #Linguistics .@sapinker The Stuff of Thought http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/books/stuff/index.html …

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