Archive - arg min

December 2024

Systems-level biology is hard because systems-level engineering is hard.

Dec 20, 2024 •

Controlled Chaos

Perfect adaptation, overshoot, and stress response

Dec 17, 2024 •

Perfect Adaptation

And why integral action is necessary for adapting to the unknown.

Dec 13, 2024 •

Adaptive Ingredients

A common pattern in homeostatic systems looks a lot like gradient descent

Dec 12, 2024 •

Qualitative quantitative models

A systems view of calcium homeostasis and its implications

Dec 10, 2024 •

Wisdom without a brain

Thinking through my preparation of a lecture about homeostasis

Dec 5, 2024 •

Project Projections

A rough survey of submitted class projects

Dec 3, 2024 •

November 2024

Unbounded above

Some reflections on a semester of convex optimization

Nov 26, 2024 •

Going beyond the polls

Unmooring liberal politics from argument by numbers

Nov 23, 2024 •

and

Twirling Towards Freedom

Avoiding dynamic programming with dynamic programming

Nov 21, 2024 •

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