Re: Any non-biological complex systems?

Posted by gepr on
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That's completely reasonable.  I suppose this was a bad example because it's difficult to decouple from its context.


On 06/07/2017 07:10 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> In this example, the discussion was more about the composition of functional relationships (ion transport, DNA repair) and their consequences than it is about objects.  
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> My concern isn't that a calculation work as intended, it is that the desire for formalism could be in opposition to quantitative prediction.   If your goal is to weed out intellectual disability, it might be better to use a statistical model method based on higher dimensional data (e.g. comparing raw sequences), than one that invokes biological concepts.


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