I live in Boston and can't get anything more than 8 down 768 up from Comcast or 3.0 down (something slow up) DSL. No other options. (No Fios in Boston proper).
Even if Fios were available I don't think there are any options that will give 63mbps download speeds. And that's the apparently the Japanese average...
One of the major problems here is getting the data one would need to build predictive mathematical models. For example, at a cellular level there are well-established physical theories, like chemical kinetics and stochastic chemical kinetics, that can be used to model biological networks of interacting proteins. These theories have been applied successfully to many biological systems. The major problem is the amount of parameters needed for these models. We need maps of proteins interactions, DNA interactions, reaction rate constants... This data is just not available in general.
Another problem is lack of computational power. (Take that Intel!). One might want to simulate how proteins, DNA, and such interact. Again, here we know the physics of interactions, quantum mechanics, but can't resolve this scale for reasonably sized molecules (let alone on the scale of a whole cell). So, for computational reasons scientists often must use cruder, more heuristic models, like molecular dynamics.
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I live in Boston and can't get anything more than 8 down 768 up from Comcast or 3.0 down (something slow up) DSL. No other options. (No Fios in Boston proper).
Even if Fios were available I don't think there are any options that will give 63mbps download speeds. And that's the apparently the Japanese average...
What's the excuse here?
One of the major problems here is getting the data one would need to build predictive mathematical models. For example, at a cellular level there are well-established physical theories, like chemical kinetics and stochastic chemical kinetics, that can be used to model biological networks of interacting proteins. These theories have been applied successfully to many biological systems. The major problem is the amount of parameters needed for these models. We need maps of proteins interactions, DNA interactions, reaction rate constants... This data is just not available in general.
Another problem is lack of computational power. (Take that Intel!). One might want to simulate how proteins, DNA, and such interact. Again, here we know the physics of interactions, quantum mechanics, but can't resolve this scale for reasonably sized molecules (let alone on the scale of a whole cell). So, for computational reasons scientists often must use cruder, more heuristic models, like molecular dynamics.