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Dr. Jennifer's avatar

One critical remark/addition - these dynamic behaviors have been amply studied in ecological theory with 2 and 3 species systems since Robert May's work in the 1970s. Some of these behaviours have been incorrectly characterised in other literature as "tipping points".

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Torri Callan's avatar

I believe that the inverse of this problem will be extremely valuable if solvable. By that I mean, given the output data of some biological system, and no prior knowledge of the underlying dynamics, can you infer the existence and properties of certain steady states in the system?

I wonder if many disease processes are well-described by changes in the underlying dynamics of a governing system, and if therapeutic interventions are better thought of as inputs into a system, rather than a patch to what is broken.

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Calvin Yeo's avatar

I’m learning about processing PPG signals this semester, so it’s rather interesting to see the term “noise filtering” in the context of decision-making “by” the cell’s machinery, in contrast to the human-driven noise filtering needed for physiological data.

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