We have come to the end of my journey at EyeWire. I plan to venture into the office every so often in the coming months, but I will no longer have an official schedule. So let us reflect on the experience. First off, I am so glad I had the opportunity to involve myself …
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A Potpourri of Posts
Hello people of BlockFeatures! I come to you from the land of 50 degrees, at last we have Spring in Boston! Today’s post will be heavily illustrated with photos! Moving on from 3D doodling, I’m going to present you with two photos from the common space at WeWork, the coworking office space that …
I’m “Digging” EyeWire (See First Photo For Evidence)
Last week the Great Office of EyeWire had another visitor from the Colorado College Neuroscience department. Here, Michael is having his first virtual reality experience using the Oculus DK. He is suspended in a neuronal circuit in the retina, so all he sees is neurons in space. When he turns his head to the right, …
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Farm to Function: Pre-Research Rambles
“What is it you research here?” The German guy in the backseat asked in broken English as we drove out of Frans Josef and towards Fox Glacier on the West Coast of New Zealand. His name was David (pronounced Dah-veed) and the first of many hitchhikers to ask me about my research. Initial conversation with …
On Automation. Read Me Even Though There are No Photos.
Happy St. Patty’s day-week from the land with Sean Fitzpatricks o’ plenty! This past week I’ve been thinking a lot about automation. (Excuse me while I go on a tangent, I promise to return to the topic of EyeWire soon) With the current technological boom paving the way for computers and robots to automate most back …
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PAXperience
Ugh guys I’ve been horrible about taking pictures. This past weekend I went to PAX East, the massive game convention. I took some un-representative pictures while there. These are unrepresentative because they don’t show that there were hundreds of tables where people were playing board/card games and at least a hundred booths for game companies …
FYErtility, Creationism, and Readbaiting Titles
In my FYE (First Year Experience course) a man named Dennis McEnnerney played professor. He did outstandingly. During some of our discussions he would claim that the small liberal arts college scene was a matchmaking business in disguise. He would claim that going to one of these colleges was a way for young, fertile, intelligent, …
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Desk Job Jests
Due to the “desk job” -esque nature of my last week at EyeWire, here are the photos I have taken: It looks like the 3D printed neurons shown are a bistratified ganglion cell and a J Cell, both found in a mouse retina, but both found in the human retina as well. Work isn’t actually …
MySQL, YourSQL, HisSQL, HerSQL
I went to the Jewish Community Day School in Watertown to speak about EyeWire during the middle school STEM day. Presenting is always difficult for me but this day was fun nonetheless. The kids were super psyched on science and this has provided me with an opportunity to directly chat with some teachers who know more …
BLOCK BREAK NO RULES
Just kidding I have work tomorrow. Let’s see where I left off… Well there has been another snowstorm so that’s another 1.5 feet on Boston. I didn’t work Tuesday because the MBTA stopped service. Every transportation method, even walking, was non-functional. When I have been in the office, I have experienced Google Hangouts(video calls) non-stop. …
