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This lesson gives an introduction to high-performance computing with the Compute Canada network, first providing an overview of use cases for HPC and then a hands-on tutorial. Though some examples might seem specific to the Calcul Québec, all computing clusters in the Compute Canada network share the same software modules and environments.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 02:49:34

This talk presents an overview of CBRAIN, a web-based platform that allows neuroscientists to perform computationally intensive data analyses by connecting them to high-performance computing facilities across Canada and around the world.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 56:07
Speaker: : Shawn Brown

This lecture covers concepts associated with neural nets, including rotation and squashing, and is a part of the Deep Learning Course at New York University's Center for Data Science (CDS).

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:01:53
Speaker: : Alfredo Canziani

This lecture covers the concept of neural nets training (tools, classification with neural nets, and PyTorch implementation) and is a part of the Deep Learning Course at NYU's Center for Data Science.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:05:47
Speaker: : Alfredo Canziani

This lecture discusses the concept of natural signals properties and the convolutional nets in practice and is a part of the Deep Learning Course at NYU's Center for Data Science.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:09:12
Speaker: : Alfredo Canziani

This lecture covers the concept of recurrent neural networks: vanilla and gated (LSTM) and is a part of the Deep Learning Course at NYU's Center for Data Science.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:05:36
Speaker: : Alfredo Canziani

This lecture covers the concept of inference in latent variable energy based models (LV-EBMs) and is a part of the Deep Learning Course at NYU's Center for Data Science. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:01:04
Speaker: : Alfredo Canziani

This tutorial covers the concept of training latent variable energy based models (LV-EBMs) and is is a part of the Deep Learning Course at NYU's Center for Data Science.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:04:48
Speaker: : Alfredo Canziani

This lecture covers advanced concept of energy based models. The lecture is a part of the Advanced energy based models modules of the the Deep Learning Course at NYU's Center for Data Science. Prerequisites for this course include: Energy-Based Models IEnergy-Based Models II, Energy-Based Models III, and an Introduction to Data Science or a Graduate Level Machine Learning course.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 56:41
Speaker: : Alfredo Canziani

This tutorial covers LV-EBM to target prop to (vanilla, denoising, contractive, variational) autoencoder and is a part of the Advanced Energy-Based Models module of the the Deep Learning Course at NYU's Center for Data Science. Prerequisites for this course include: Energy-Based Models IEnergy-Based Models IIEnergy-Based Models III, Energy-Based Models IV, and an Introduction to Data Science or a Graduate Level Machine Learning course.

Difficulty level: Advanced
Duration: 1:00:34
Speaker: : Alfredo Canziani

This tutorial covers the concepts of autoencoders, denoising encoders, and variational autoencoders (VAE) with PyTorch, as well as generative adversarial networks and code. It is a part of the Advanced energy based models modules of the the Deep Learning Course at NYU's Center for Data Science. Prerequisites for this course include: Energy-Based Models IEnergy-Based Models IIEnergy-Based Models IIIEnergy-Based Models IV, Energy-Based Models V, and an Introduction to Data Science or a Graduate Level Machine Learning course.

Difficulty level: Advanced
Duration: 1:07:50
Speaker: : Alfredo Canziani

This tutorial covers advanced concept of energy-based models. The lecture is a part of the Associative Memories module of the the Deep Learning Course at NYU's Center for Data Science. 

Difficulty level: Advanced
Duration: 1:12:00
Speaker: : Alfredo Canziani

This tutuorial covers the concept of graph convolutional networks and is a part of the Deep Learning Course at NYU's Center for Data Science. Prerequisites for this module include: Modules 1 - 5 of this course and an Introduction to Data Science or a Graduate Level Machine Learning course.

Difficulty level: Advanced
Duration: 57:33
Speaker: : Alfredo Canziani

This lecture covers the concept of model predictive control and is a part of the Deep Learning Course at NYU's Center for Data Science. Prerequisites for this module include: Models 1-6 of this course and an Introduction to Data Science or a Graduate Level Machine Learning course.

Difficulty level: Advanced
Duration: 1:10:22
Speaker: : Alfredo Canziani

This lecture covers the concepts of emulation of kinematics from observations and training a policy. It is a part of the Deep Learning Course at NYU's Center for Data Science. Prerequisites for this module include: Models 1-6 of this course and an Introduction to Data Science or a Graduate Level Machine Learning course.

Difficulty level: Advanced
Duration: 1:01:21
Speaker: : Alfredo Canziani

This lecture covers the concept of predictive policy learning under uncertainty and is a part of the Deep Learning Course at NYU's Center for Data Science. Prerequisites for this module include: Models 1-6 of this course and an Introduction to Data Science or a Graduate Level Machine Learning course.

Difficulty level: Advanced
Duration: 1:14:44
Speaker: : Alfredo Canziani

This lecture continues on the topic of descent from the previous lesson, Optimization I. This lesson is a part of the Deep Learning Course at NYU's Center for Data Science. Prerequisites for this module include: Models 1-7 of this course and an Introduction to Data Science or a Graduate Level Machine Learning course.

Difficulty level: Advanced
Duration: 1:51:32
Speaker: : Alfredo Canziani

As a part of NeuroHackademy 2021, Noah Benson gives an introduction to Pytorch, one of the two most common software packages for deep learning applications to the neurosciences.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 00:50:40
Speaker: :

In this hands-on tutorial, Dr. Robert Guangyu Yang works through a number of coding exercises to see how RNNs can be easily used to study cognitive neuroscience questions, with a quick demonstration of how we can train and analyze RNNs on various cognitive neuroscience tasks. Familiarity of Python and basic knowledge of Pytorch are assumed.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 00:26:38
Speaker: :

This lesson introduces the practical exercises which accompany the previous lessons on animal and human connectomes in the brain and nervous system. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 4:10
Speaker: : Dan Goodman