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A quantitative definition of organismality and its application to lichen
Eric Libby, Joshua Grochow, Simon DeDeo +1
The organism is a fundamental concept in biology. However there is no universally accepted, formal, and yet broadly applicable definition of what an organism is. Here we introduce…
A Likelihood Ratio Detector for Identifying Within-Perimeter Computer Network Attacks
Justin Grana, David Wolpert, Joshua Neil +3
The rapid detection of attackers within firewalls of enterprise computer net- works is of paramount importance. Anomaly detectors address this problem by quantifying deviations fro…
Dependence of dissipation on the initial distribution over states
Artemy Kolchinsky, David H. Wolpert
We analyze how the amount of work dissipated by a fixed nonequilibrium process depends on the initial distribution over states. Specifically, we compare the amount of dissipation w…
Reducing the error of Monte Carlo Algorithms by Learning Control Variates
Brendan D. Tracey, David H. Wolpert
Monte Carlo (MC) sampling algorithms are an extremely widely-used technique to estimate expectations of functions f(x), especially in high dimensions. Control variates are a very p…
The free energy requirements of biological organisms; implications for evolution
David H. Wolpert
Recent advances in nonequilibrium statistical physics have provided unprecedented insight into the thermodynamics of dynamic processes. The author recently used these advances to e…