The golden age of AI and neuroscience, brain computer interface (BCI), from academia to FAANG with Patrick Mineault - The Data Scientist Show #034

Patrick Mineault is a neural data scientist. He has worked at Google and Facebook after he did a postdoc at UCLA. He worked on Brain Computer Interface (BCI) at Facebook Reality Labs, building a BCI that allows you to type with your brain. He tweets about neuro-AI @patrickmineault, and writes a blog (https://xcorr.net) sharing his career journey and learnings along the way. If you like the show subscribe to the channel and give us a 5-star review. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com/ for more on data science.

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How he got into data science (00:02:41)
His work at Google on A/B testing (00:04:17)
How he joined Facebook Reality Lab(00:23:53)
Projects on neuro-AI and brain computer interface (BCI) (00:27:13)
Skills needed for BCI research (00:34:37)
How AI influence neuroscience (01:34:28)
computer vision VS human vision (01:39:57)
model vs data, nature vs nurture(01:45:32)