Nice one! I gather that you were working for the Mosers. G
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 11:57:27PM +0100, Sturla Molden wrote: > On 21/02/15 23:20, Sturla Molden wrote: > > "I have discovered a truly marvelous proof, which this margin is too > > narrow to contain." ;-) > A more bizarre story... > Last time I said something like that was in 2004, when a postdoc, a > fellow PhD student and I had found some strange hexagonal patterns in > the activity of a type of neurons. It was beautiful, very regular and > unlike anything we had seen before. When we showed it to our supervisors > they thought it was an artifact in my computation, which they after a > while had to accept it was not. We submitted a paper to Nature, but > instead of refusing it -- which they had done to anything we had sent to > them before -- they strangely accepted it. The reviewer even said the > discovery was as important as the discovery of pinwheels in visual > cortex. That made us all laugh, because we knew David Hubel and Torsten > Wiesel had won the Nobel prize for that -- so obviously the reviewer was > exaggerating. But it is always nice to get good reviews. I stopped > laughing about that comment on October the 6th last year when I heard > our supervisors had gotten a phone call from Stockholm. > Sturla > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server > from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards > with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more > Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=190641631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Scikit-learn-general mailing list > Scikit-learn-general@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general -- Gael Varoquaux Researcher, INRIA Parietal Laboratoire de Neuro-Imagerie Assistee par Ordinateur NeuroSpin/CEA Saclay , Bat 145, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette France Phone: ++ 33-1-69-08-79-68 http://gael-varoquaux.info http://twitter.com/GaelVaroquaux ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=190641631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list Scikit-learn-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
