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Re:In the future, lab mice will live in computer chips, not ... by stewbrew on Friday July 03, 2020 @03:07AM (#23721720)
There are companies who make money by wasting time like that. I'm no expert in this field but from what I gather sometimes Mickey Mouse Models can help too. Economics is built on such models.
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Re:In the future, lab mice will live in computer chips, not ... by chrisco255 on Friday July 03, 2020 @05:42AM (#23722560)
The GDP of an economy can be described in 5 variables. The non-linear dynamic processes like what occurs at the cellular level and at the organism level in a biological system, cannot be modeled with any degree of certainty. The complex chemical interactions of medicines with complex organisms like mice cannot be modeled with any degree of certainty, neither in the short term nor the long term. Uncertainty is an exponential function of time in such systems.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory

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Re:In the future, lab mice will live in computer chips, not ... by stewbrew on Friday July 03, 2020 @06:35AM (#23722819)
You can't exactly predict next year's gdp with 5 variables. Retrospective analysis while accepting certain variation of error is another thing.
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Re:In the future, lab mice will live in computer chips, not ... by ausbah on Friday July 03, 2020 @09:26AM (#23723797)
domain bias much?
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