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23 What the Butler Saw with John Butler

23 What the Butler Saw with John Butler

FromThe Function Room


23 What the Butler Saw with John Butler

FromThe Function Room

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Length:
58 minutes
Released:
May 24, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

John Butler is a mathematician turned computational neuroscientist, a professor of maths and statistics at TU Dublin who looks at the brain mathematically and tries to figure out why the brain does what it does
We talk about the senses, why it’s good to get your questions from a child, what an neural network ‘cares about’, lots of stuff but first of all, what is a computational neuroscientist.

Find out more about John and his work here: https://johnsbutler.netlify.app/
Released:
May 24, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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A podcast about the big numbers, the hard sums, the mathematics that defines, runs, shapes, changes, begins, ends, every things our lives and the world around us. Hosted by Colm O'Regan. An award-winning radio broadcaster, comedian, novelist and it turns out lapsed engineer who is trying to feel useful again. Each episode sheds light on a tiny corner of a giant subject with entertaining guests and accessible talk.