Hey I'm Nick, and I originally came to Conduit as a data participant! After my session, I started asking questions about the setup to the people working there, and apparently I asked good questions, so they hired me.

Since I joined, we've gone from <1k hours to >10k hours, and I've been really excited by how much our whole setup has changed. I've been implementing lots of improvements to the whole data pipeline and the operations side. Now that we train lots of models on the data, the model results also inform how we collect data (e.g. we care a lot less about noise now that we have more data).

We're definitely still improving the whole system, but at this point, we've learned a lot that I wish someone had told us when we started, so we thought we'd share it in case any of you are doing human data collection. We're all also very curious to get any feedback from the community!

I thought that kind of career change only happened in The Sims :-)

The article seem to indicate fMRI as a modality, but I know that is not generally an affordable resource. Was it an ultra low field set?

Good story!

I have dreamed many times about same story but with apple or epic games. But they have millions of human beings testing their products FOR FREE in every place of the world, hahahaha