Richard Gao
“…I’m hoping for there to be a similar community for creating, curating, and contributing to a body of research that uses ML and AI to advance our understanding of neuroscience, neurobiology, and neurological disorders.” Me, January, 2024 Okay I’m gonna be real here, back when I first started...
Richard Gao
I didn’t forget about this. My laptop bricked back in February and somehow the one meaningful thing I lost was this uncommitted draft. The thought of re-writing it was dreadful, so I didn’t. Then life happened, and all of a sudden it’s August. Tale old as time itself. A brief recap: what’s the...
Richard Gao
2023 came and went, and I somehow logged exactly 0 blog posts…for the first time since starting this blog in 2014. So I’ve resolved (once again) to write more and write more regularly, and as a consequence, post less polished thoughts. With that in mind, I’m going to start the year with a bang and...
Richard Gao
Uhh so this whole thing got a bit long, and I thought about breaking it up into parts, but I just can’t be bothered to make two different posts and tweet it multiple times, so just use the table of contents above to jump to what’s interesting/relevant for you. The 3 sections are more or less...
Richard Gao
Last month, I served as one of the PhD application evaluators for my village’s local graduate school (IMPRS), and I took some notes while reading through the applications on what I looked for, in real time. It’s probably a bit late for this year’s application cycle to be immediately helpful, but I...
Richard Gao
Warning: a few sections have small to medium rants about higher education (in North America). The point is not my displeasure: the experiences that fueled them, especially if you’ve had similar ones as a graduate student or professor, serve as a stark contrast to further highlight the absolutely...