Not A Box is about getting the small-scale details right, testing our human intuition with a blizzard of computation, and exploring the emergent behaviors inside of cells that humble our most complex human engineering.
Jonathan Alberts has degrees in Physics and Engineering, crossing over to the world of computational biology thanks to an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, working with the late Garrett Odell at the University of Washington and the Center for Cell Dynamics at Friday Harbor Labs, WA.
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In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
Benjamin Brewster
All models are wrong, but some are useful.
George E. P. Box
A mathematician (programmer) is a device for turning coffee in theorems (code).
Alfréd Rényi (techies)
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