I am a 5th year computational biology student, and have yet to take any real coursework in theoretical biology, despite the fact that mos...
I am a 5th year computational biology student, and have yet to take any real coursework in theoretical biology, despite the fact that most of what I do could be broadly classified as exactly that. Theoretical biology seems to be the black sheep of both the wet-lab biology and simulation communities, a situation that I wish were different, but honestly it can be difficult to make a compelling case for the role/yield of theory in biology beyond a few simple models and natural selection etc. It's frustrating, because I think the most fruitful area we can work on is developing a better understanding / mathematical formulation of the incredibly high dimensional, nonlinear, stochastic spaces that biological systems live in, but it's difficult to see the way forward because no on (that I know of) is putting time into thinking about it.
Posted by donovanr on Jul 15, 2015, 11:12 PM
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C++ is the "just here to deliver" language.
He is not weirdly political, he has just more normal views, I know that is something hard to grasp for some tech bro.
Of course you don't have a right to murder anyone.
Unify Control and Container nodes, allow children to pick the behavior
I was talking about this the other day with someone - broadly I agree with this, they're absolutely fantastic for getting a prototype so ...
In theory you could express most things as a flowchart but the complexity of doing that quickly escalates.
It's not really hard to onboard new engineers with Scala, Clojure or even Ruby backgrounds.
Very understanding (or even no) partners is probably a large percentage of it!
I am a 5th year computational biology student, and have yet to take any real coursework in theoretical biology, despite the fact that mos...
I am a 5th year computational biology student, and have yet to take any real coursework in theoretical biology, despite the fact that most of what I do could be broadly classified as exactly that. Theoretical biology seems to be the black sheep of both the wet-lab biology and simulation communities, a situation that I wish were different, but honestly it can be difficult to make a compelling case for the role/yield of theory in biology beyond a few simple models and natural selection etc. It's frustrating, because I think the most fruitful area we can work on is developing a better understanding / mathematical formulation of the incredibly high dimensional, nonlinear, stochastic spaces that biological systems live in, but it's difficult to see the way forward because no on (that I know of) is putting time into thinking about it.
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