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Saturday Apr 21, 2012 #
Orienteering 1:47:04 [3]
thick, fun. Gorgeous day. Whidbey Island.
Orienteering race 21:26 [3]
Relay on Whidbey Island.
Thursday Apr 19, 2012 #
Note
Computer programs and logic circuits have often been used as metaphors for the function of cells. You could think of a cell as executing a program not unlike that of a computer. Given inputs such as the cellular environment, the cell “computes” outputs and behaviors such as secreted factors, shape changes, and cell division. Humans have 10^13 cells, of many different types, all “computed” from a single cell. Evolution itself can be considered a computation, and has inspired a class of computer algorithms variously called genetic algorithms, evolutionary programming or evolution strategies.
Sunday Apr 15, 2012 #
Walking in the woods 1:30:00 [1]
Setting controls for NEOC meet at Powissett. It was lovely in the woods, and I was glad to be there. I'd gotten up at 3 to take David to NH for a 5:30am flight to the west coast for a week of college touring with his dad, after being up late doing some prep work for the meet. So by the time the meet wrapped up I was pretty fried. Rogaine training. Dave and Isabel were awesome and helped pull the meet together. The usual stalwarts including Pete L, Joanne and Jim P were on hand as well.
Izzy ran brown. Dave ran red but quit partway through to report and deal with a missing control. Linc quit his course early because he had a hard cut-off to prepare for his birthday party later in the day. It was great to see Bridget finishing first on white. Spencer T was 2nd on yellow (I enjoyed talking to his dad who does biomedical engineering), and Ethan ran yellow but said he had some problems. Friends of ours came with their kids. Two dads with their young sons from the Graham and Parks school came; it was the first time for one of them, and he said: I see your posts on the school email list all the time, and now I know what it's all about!
The best part for me was driving home afterward with Izzy. I told her she could have anything she wanted because she had been so helpful with such a positive attitude. She wanted a bacon cheeseburger, with fries and a lemonade. Siri told us the nearest place to wherever we were (Lee's burgers in some Boston suburb). Fun conversation.
Izzy ran brown. Dave ran red but quit partway through to report and deal with a missing control. Linc quit his course early because he had a hard cut-off to prepare for his birthday party later in the day. It was great to see Bridget finishing first on white. Spencer T was 2nd on yellow (I enjoyed talking to his dad who does biomedical engineering), and Ethan ran yellow but said he had some problems. Friends of ours came with their kids. Two dads with their young sons from the Graham and Parks school came; it was the first time for one of them, and he said: I see your posts on the school email list all the time, and now I know what it's all about!
The best part for me was driving home afterward with Izzy. I told her she could have anything she wanted because she had been so helpful with such a positive attitude. She wanted a bacon cheeseburger, with fries and a lemonade. Siri told us the nearest place to wherever we were (Lee's burgers in some Boston suburb). Fun conversation.