Initial fuckery with field/spiking network hybrid models is over, now it’s time for polishing and paperwork (and maybe, just maybe, sleep).

Conclusions from the last few months:

• When in doubt, read Theoretical Neuroscience, by Dayan, P. and Abbott, L. F. (2001);
• MATLAB is a great tool but its language gets more atrocious the longer one uses it;
• The previous point can be remedied by just writing everything in Julia and not looking back;
• Converting average firing rates to individual spikes in a population of neurons by way of first converting the former into instantaneous firing rates for a group of Poisson “neurons” inserted between the neural field and the spiking population is not cheating, even if it kind of feels like that;
• BLAS/LAPACK is magic (both in the sense that it allows solving complex problems with a few short incantations and in the sense that it is a thing of nightmare and eldritch portent);
• I still can do double and triple all-nighters, fuck yes.