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For those who are frustrated with the lack of a fleshed out limitations section, it seems well covered under the peer review which is in the link above or directly below [0]

To me the paper is still very interesting, but concerns about computationally intractability and the hardness of approximation questions made me dig deeper.

> Specifically, our model aims to bridge biological circuits and computations of uncertainty in a tractable manner.

> To address this, we have carefully reframed our claims throughout the manuscript to emphasize that the model is a hypothesis generator rather than a definitive representation of biological circuitry.

Under the "All models are wrong, some are useful" I have no doubt this will be useful to some. But I will admit that their claims in the response to Reviewer Comment 4.5 that they "emphasize that the model is a hypothesis generator" doesn't match the published paper IMHO; and that negatively impacted my view of the claims in an admittedly probably unfair manner.

[0] https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs414...



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