ROS activity in some region of the body is a function of antioxidant bioavailability, heat, and oxidant bioavailability. I imagine this relationship is the inverse of some chemical rate laws, i.e. dependent on which antioxidants we’re looking at. But since I expect most antioxidants to work as individual molecules, the relationship is probably 1ax, i.e. ROS activity is inverse w.r.t. some antioxidant’s potency and concentration if we ignore other antioxidants. The bottom term can also be a sum across all antioxidants, given no synergistic / antagonistic interactions!
Transistor reliability is probably a function of heat, band gap and voltage? I imagine that, in fact, reliability is hysteretic in terms of band gap and voltage! When the gap is lower, noise can cross more easily, and when it’s too high there won’t be enough voltage for it to pass (without overheating your circuit). And heat increases noise. I think that information transmission might be exponential or Gaussian centered around the optimum, parameterized by voltagegap. Does anyone have an equation for this?
Ant movement speed is probably an equilibrium between evolved energy-conservation priors, available calories and pheromones. Let’s just focus on pheromones which make the ant move faster. Energy (perhaps as kcalsec) and pheromones (say, mol/L) are probably each about O(√x) predictors of speed, since I’m imagining material stress of movement (O(v2)) to be the main energy sink. Let y=√e∗√p, where p=pheromones. I don’t know what the evolved frugality priors look like, but expect they can just map y→speed without needing the subcomponents e and p, at least as far as big-O notation goes.
This one was a lot of fun!
ROS activity in some region of the body is a function of antioxidant bioavailability, heat, and oxidant bioavailability. I imagine this relationship is the inverse of some chemical rate laws, i.e. dependent on which antioxidants we’re looking at. But since I expect most antioxidants to work as individual molecules, the relationship is probably 1ax, i.e. ROS activity is inverse w.r.t. some antioxidant’s potency and concentration if we ignore other antioxidants. The bottom term can also be a sum across all antioxidants, given no synergistic / antagonistic interactions!
Transistor reliability is probably a function of heat, band gap and voltage? I imagine that, in fact, reliability is hysteretic in terms of band gap and voltage! When the gap is lower, noise can cross more easily, and when it’s too high there won’t be enough voltage for it to pass (without overheating your circuit). And heat increases noise. I think that information transmission might be exponential or Gaussian centered around the optimum, parameterized by voltagegap. Does anyone have an equation for this?
Ant movement speed is probably an equilibrium between evolved energy-conservation priors, available calories and pheromones. Let’s just focus on pheromones which make the ant move faster. Energy (perhaps as kcalsec) and pheromones (say, mol/L) are probably each about O(√x) predictors of speed, since I’m imagining material stress of movement (O(v2)) to be the main energy sink. Let y=√e∗√p, where p=pheromones. I don’t know what the evolved frugality priors look like, but expect they can just map y→speed without needing the subcomponents e and p, at least as far as big-O notation goes.