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Great, thank you Ted, I look forward to your toy example! As for the biological significance, here is the paper for you to enjoy. Webster-Wood, Victoria A., et al. "Control for multifunctionality: bioinspired control based on feeding in Aplysia californica." Biological Cybernetics 114.6 (2...

I am collaborating with a biologist who would like to incorporate Boolean switching elements (like McCulloch-Pitts units) into a network model. Is there an artificial cell that has a 2-state (or n-state) discrete "membrane potential", e.g. V is either 0 or 1; the artificial cell can receiv...

Many thanks, Ted! Sorry I didn't know that one -- it doesn't appear under the general "math" entry
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This post may win the "most pedestrian" award. I'd like to add a curve to a plot of the form f(mod(t,period)) and I don't see a command equivalent to "mod" (or "rem") in the programmer's reference. The following works as a substitute: atan2(sin(t*2*PI/period),cos(t*2*PI...

Ted, dperakis: If you have N poisson processes each with mean firing rate alpha, and you aggregate all the events (i.e. spikes) into a single list, it will be as if you had a single poisson process with mean firing rate N*alpha. The Poisson process is unusual in this regard. Why not take advantage o...

Ted, when you refer to a "negative exponential distribution", are you actually referring to an exponential distribution? The Binomial and Negative Binomial distributions are two closely related discrete distributions. (see e.g. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BinomialDistribution.html and htt...