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Subject: Re: Autoregulate swappiness & inactivation
From: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>
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On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 13:12 -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
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> Timothy Miller wrote:
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> |
> | Con Kolivas wrote:
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> |> /me hides
> |>
> |> Umm sorry the control systems I look at are physiological and tend to
> |> be exponential, so ignore me.
> |
> |
> | No.  I see no reason to disregard your understanding of biological
> | control systems.  Millions of years of evolution have fine-tuned some
> | very complex and robust control feedback systems.  While I wouldn't
> | suggest that they're the only way to do the job, they're something that
> | we should definately pay attention to.
> |
> | Frankly, I think the cross-pollination that you bring from your
> | background in medicine can do nothing but help us.
> |
> 
> Con is a medic?  . . . . shit.  I'm 5 years overdue for my
> measles/mumps/rhubella shot

He's a Doctor, IIRC.