We explore the performance of MP-EST [ 5] and these boosted versions of MP-EST on a collection of simulated and biological datasets.
However, both boosted versions of MP-EST gave more accurate results on the biological amniota dataset, and so that is not likely to be the answer.
By contrast, boosted versions of MP-EST are likely to scale close to linearly with the number of species, and are embarrassingly parallel.
We tested these techniques on a collection of simulated and biological datasets, and showed that boosted versions of MP-EST were fast and highly accurate using these divide-and-conquer methods.
However, the trees found by MP-EST had ML scores that were at least as good (and most often better) than the trees produced in any iteration by the boosted versions of MP-EST.
Instead, the data suggests that the boosting technique leads to trees with better quartet support scores, and that using quartet support scores to select the best species tree might be helping these boosted versions of MP-EST to produce more accurate trees.
If 552bhp of insane is a little too insane for you, Porsche has also cooked up a 911 Turbo (no "S") with 513bhp from a lower-boost version of the same engine.
In many ways, "Madness, Rack, and Honey" reads like a steroid-boosted version of a commonplace book, those thinking persons' scrapbooks that became popular in early modern Europe and contained quotations from the classics, scraps of conversation, poem fragments, recipes, proverbs and lists of every sort.
Adi's brother Ramli was killed by the militia just before Adi was born, a petty criminal who was dragged out of prison along with hundreds of others and slaughtered so that the militia could boost their own version of a "bodycount" a righteous tally of supposed communist-slayings.
This momentarily boosts an inflated version of ourselves, but the high ego is just the flip side of the "low ego" -- the place where we are afraid we may not be "as good/successful/happy as...".
