Well, I feel like I should apologize for such a long delay between posts. It’s been a crazy summer that has included some vacation time plus an overseas trip to a conference. Regardless, I’m finally back in the swing of things and ready to write up Part 3! To recap: Lesson 1 and Lesson 2 looked at how ODEs are solved numerically and how higher order solutions are more accurate than naive implementations. Today we’ll look at two simulations of living systems (Lotka-Volterra and SIR). Finally, the series will conclude with a post on model fitting and a post about chaotic systems.
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