Algorithms In The Field (8F)

Ref.:Algorithms In The Field (8F)

這是前幾天在 DIMACS, NJ 舉辦的研討會, Algorithms In The Field, 縮寫是 8F, 因為 A-I-T F 唸成 8F. 科科. 我是沒有機會參加, 不過 D. Eppstein 倒是寫了兩篇 posts 介紹 (1,2,3).

一開始我覺得還漫可惜的, 怎麼沒有生物資訊相關的主題. 不過看了 David Eppstein 的文章, 才知道其實還是有的.

John Doyle: "We have theories, but they're fragmented, incoherent, and incomplete." We have problems that have arisen from the solution to other problems (autoimmune diseases from an immune system that responds well to infectious diseases) and the need for those solutions is now less strong than it was when they evolved. From which he concludes that we should go back to having more infectious diseases in order to better control our autoimmune diseases. Or at least that's what I got from his talk. Also: you have ten times as many signals going from your brain to your eyes than vice versa. The way our eyes work is that the brain sends a fat pipe of predictions out to the eyes and gets back a much narrower pipe of differences from the predictions. That's why we dream so vividly. Also also: DNS is a mistake, because it breaks the layering structure of the internet by allowing the top application layer to gain access to a much lower addressing layer.

不過內容似乎是偏向 complex systems, 或者說是 systems biology.