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Atrial Fibrillation

Last edited: August 8, 2025

AFIB is a heart conditinos, which is augmented during heart surgery.

“Endogeneous extrolluculor proteases damage to Kv1.5 in the atria contributes to AFIB”

  • WBC’s secretion of proteases, such as calpain when it is inflamed

Authoritarianism

Last edited: August 8, 2025

autism

Last edited: August 8, 2025

autism is a spectrum disorder that are caused by both environmental and genetic factors.

Key Question: how can different chromatin regulators lead to the same set of symptoms named “autism”.

autism gene signature

The gene signature of autism can be measured in clean and quantitative assays.

Automatic Differentiation

Last edited: August 8, 2025

Forward Accumulation

First, make a computation graph.

Consider \(\ln (ab + \max (a,2))\)

Say we want \(\pdv{f}{a}(3,2)\).

Let’s begin by tracking, left to right, both the value of each node and its derivative.

Layer 1:

  • \(b = 2, \pdv{b}{a} = 0\)
  • \(a = 3, \pdv{a}{a} = 1\)

Layer 2:

  • \(c_1 = a\times b = 6, \pdv{c_1}{a} = b\pdv{a}{a} + a \pdv{a}{b} = 2\)

and so on; until we get to \(c_4\)

autonomous ODEs

Last edited: August 8, 2025

an First Order ODE is “autonomous” when:

\begin{equation} y’ = f(y) \end{equation}

for some \(f\) of one variables. Meaning, it only depends on the independent variable \(t\) through the use of \(y(t)\) in context.

This is a special class of seperable diffequ.

autonomous ODEs level off at stationary curves

for autonomous ODEs can never level off at non-stationary points. Otherwise, that would be a stationary point.

See stability (ODEs)

time-invariant expressions

For forms by which: