Wow, neuro-everything. Also, for some reason I never made the connection until I read your description of it, but it turns out that Machine Learning is very related to what my dad does (I have sort of been trying to figure out for years what exactly my dad does and how to say it in one sentence, his title involves the phrase "biomedical informatics" which sounds interesting but doesn't narrow it much). Anyway, I might bug you if I need help with stuff for my Cognitive Neuroscience class :)
I've always thought informatics/data mining stuff was pretty interesting, mostly just for the mathematics aspect. I'm taking machine learning because even though the kind of work I'm doing is at a way more theoretical/philosophical level, I find the math background helps.
Neuroscience help is always available. I take a lot of neuro classes, because (as mentioned before) the kind of work I eventually want to do is in the whole neuroscience, cognitive science, philosophy of mind, epistemology intersection area. I'd like to take more philosophy oriented classes, but there is no philosophy program to speak of at my school (there is one, but I wouldn't speak of it.) So I've ended up with a kind of engineer's perspective on things, which (I hope) provides a solid base for reasoning about this stuff later on.
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Neuroscience help is always available. I take a lot of neuro classes, because (as mentioned before) the kind of work I eventually want to do is in the whole neuroscience, cognitive science, philosophy of mind, epistemology intersection area. I'd like to take more philosophy oriented classes, but there is no philosophy program to speak of at my school (there is one, but I wouldn't speak of it.) So I've ended up with a kind of engineer's perspective on things, which (I hope) provides a solid base for reasoning about this stuff later on.
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