Uploaded May 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Patrick Mineault is an independent neural data scientist. He did a postdoc at UCLA and later worked at Google and Facebook. He worked on Brain Computer Interface (BCI) at Facebook Reality Labs, building a BCI that allows you to type with your brain. He talks about neuro-AI on Twitter (twitter.com/patrickmineault), and writes a blog (https://xcorr.net) sharing his career journey and learnings along the way.

We talked about his work in neuro-AI, brain computer interface, understanding the brain through artificial neuronetwork, the connection between computer vision and human vision, and his journey from post doc to Google and Facebook. If you like the show subscribe to the channel and give us a 5-star review. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on dalianaliu.com for more on data science.

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Highlights:
00:00 Intro
00:02:41 how he got into data science
00:27:13 projects on neuro-AI and brain computer interface (BCI)
00:34:37 how to get into BCI research
00:37:17 the challenges when he worked on processing the images and texts
01:07:01 the cake metaphor
01:34:28 how AI influence neuroscience
01:39:57 computer vision VS human vision
01:45:32 model vs data, nature vs nurture

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