Peter Gamma (Physiologist & Director) Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS)

Why are Russian programmers the best in the world – explained in the example of BrainFlow developer Andrey Parfenov from Russia

Last Updated on April 17, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

Coder from Russia have an excellent reputation internationally. Russian programmers are known to be thes best in the world:

https://www.rbth.com/science-and-tech/333855-why-are-russian-programmers-best-in-the-world

  • And even in Zurich Switzerland there are or where coders from Russia who worked there.
  • For instance in the Brain Research Institute of the University of Zurich we know of one coder.
  • A coder from Russia worked there who was a very calm person.
  • But he was an excellent coder who was able to update software only him was able to update.
  • But we only know little of him and what he did.
  • He was always coding and was working there and did hardly talk to other people.
  • But as far as we know he updated a software to do experiments with monkeys.
  • He was in the group of the scientists who worked there, had lunch with those, but hardly spoke to those.
  • But he did an excellent job and he was highly appreciated.

Another great coder from Russia is BrainFlow developer Andrey Parfenov:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreyparfenov

Here he shows some examples of his skills with BrainFlow:

  • And here are the board which are supported by BrainFlow:

https://brainflow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/SupportedBoards.html

Muse

  • We had in the past issues with the Muse and sensor streaming.
  • the SDK is not available anymore since years.
  • The Mind Monitor offers OSC examples.
  • But who want an Android App in the path for developements?
  • BrainFlow supports the Muse.

OpenBCI

  • And also with OpenBCI streaming there where issues.
  • LabStreamingLayer for instance does require for x86 processors, so it does not run on Raspberry Pi.
  • On the contrast, BrainFlow runs on the Raspberry Pi, as for instance shown in this example with BrainFlow and OpenBCI and Raspberry Pi:

https://medium.com/@basoph2002/using-brainflow-with-openbci-eeg-recorder-on-a-raspberry-pi-e578dca675ce

  • There are OCS streaming examples for OpenBCI, but we do not know of any people who still use it.
  • There are Python examples for OpenBCI.
  • But the latest development for OpenBCI streaming is BrainFlow from Andrey Parfenov

InfluxDB

  • Years ago, we learned in the Matlab forum that it is not far from LabstreamingLayer to InfluxDB.
  • And we suppose from BrainFlow to Python and from there to InfluxDB is not far.
  • We have Python BrainFlow examples to solve this problem.

An example of a very negative experience with a coder from America was Matlab supporter Adam Danz

  • In the Matlab forum, all of Peter Gamma’s posts where deleted by Matlab supporter Adam Danz:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/profile/authors/25613423

  • The post deleting was illegal.
  • We hasked for recovering those,
  • Then these posts where deleted again.
  • Peter Gamma is sure that he would win the case against Adam Danz with his lawyer.
  • But it was not worth it to this date since it is a lot of work.
  • He stopped using Matlab and the Matlab forum instead and uses Python now.
  • This is an example of a very negative experience with the coder and Matlab supporter Adam Danz from America.
  • You can still find the negative traces of the deletion of Matlab supporter Adam Danz on Peter Gamma’s GITHUB where all the links to MATLAB are dead:

https://github.com/PeterGamma

  • And the consequence of this all that this is an argument that the 1000 USD fee for the MATLAB licence is not worth it.
  • On the contrast to negative experiences with coders from America Adama Danz, we made positive experiences with Russian coders

We made positive experiences with coders from Russia such as Andrey Parfenov who supports BrainFlow in his slack:

https://openbraintalk.slack.com

  • And BrainFlow is very active on GITHUB:

https://github.com/brainflow-dev/brainflow/issues

  • 20 issues are open, 226 are closed.

And the Author’s contact information of BrainFlow is Andrey Parfenov

https://brainflow.org/contact

And you can find an interview with BrainFlow developer Andrey Parfenov in the OpenBCI community:

https://openbci.com/community/brainflowqa

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