My dear friend from graduate school once confided to me that he could maintain only three major passions in his…
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(S)HIV analysis: primary infection in macaques with stem cell transplants
A few weeks ago, our JVI paper with experimentalists Dr Chris Peterson and Dr Hans-Peter Kiem was published online. The…
Intra-host HIV model with latency
The canonical model I end up doing calculations related to this model quite a bit, so I’m leaving it here…
Rotavirus
We were tasked for the SISMID summer courses with doing a little analysis of a virus. Our group ended up with…
Beyond white: simulating colored noise in stochastic differential equtions
In physics, and elsewhere, stochastic processes are often simulated as white-noise processes. These processes are idealized and typically justified as…
Adding beans to a pot
I’ve been reading through Crispin Gardiner’s `Handbook on stochastic processes’. It’s a really dense but helpful book, designed sort of…
Why can we assume equal a priori probabilities?
Given a state with many particles, if we want to guess about how we think the particles will be distributed,…
How to think optimally ignorantly
I often return to Jaynes’s wonderful 1957 paper “Information theory and statistical mechanics”. Starting from the entropy as defined by…
LaTeX blogging
I am looking for a new venue to write in, it requires LaTeX formatting, does WordPress have that capability? Let’s…
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