Maxwell Shinn's Homepage

Software

PyDDM is a simulator for the Drift Diffusion Model (DDM) in cognitive neuroscience.
Paranoid Scientist is a runtime verification Python library for scientific software.
Notes3 is a scientific note-taking program based on Pandoc.
WriteType helps elementary school students experience success in writing
Find the versatility of a network. Code in Python and Matlab/Octave. For more information see the original paper.
ForceAtlas2-python is a port of Gephi’s ForceAtlas2 graph layout algorithm to Python (and NetworkX). Install with “pip install ForceAtlas2”.
There are also several abandoned projects.

I primarily use Launchpad but occasionally use Github. All software listed here is available under the GNU GPLv3 unless otherwise specified.

I occasionally update my quasi-scientific blog.

I am interested in using mathematical, statistical, and computational tools to understand the brain.

I am a joint graduate student in the Murray lab and Lee lab. Previous affiliations: Bullmore, Lehman, Nykamp, Netoff, Hamker, and Zelazo.

Sometimes I compose music.
Here is a music box soundfont which I am releasing as public domain.
Various executive function tasks and experiments from the Zelazo Lab
The figures from my book, Instant MuseScore, are available under the Creative Commons BY-SA License.
- Note that, if you are considering purchasing this book, I would highly advise against it. I wrote it for MuseScore 1.3, whereas MuseScore 2.0 has been released, making it more or less obsolete. Marc Sabatella wrote a brilliant book on MuseScore 2.0.
A new Wikipedia article per day, curated from a weekly category of broad general interest. RSS feed Atom
Here is a recent picture of me courtesy of (and copyright) Pat O’Leary.

Anyone who does scientific programming should read this paper on best practices.
The Free Software Foundation protects the digital freedom of software users and developers.
The Ada Initiative is a project to support women in computing.
MuseScore is a free software music composition program. I also used to build the GNU/Linux nightlies.
DuckDuckGo is a nice search engine that respects your privacy.
Here are some good (and not so good) books.

The best way to contact me is via carrier pigeon. Email works too, though.