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The Art, Music And Computer Science Of DNA
Build6 writes "As part of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA's double-helix structure, many news publications are writing about what has been done with the discovery so far; The Economist has a very interesting one about DNA's use in art and music. ... You can read all about it either by picking up a copy of The Economist (it's well worth the money, I've subscribed for over a decade), or online." And Clint Harris writes "As part of its series commemorating the 50th anniversary of 'the first scientific description of DNA' NPR recently aired a story comparing DNA to software (RealAudio or Windows Media). 'For many, the best analogy for the way DNA works is that it's like a computer program at the heart of every cell. Some of its programming tricks bear an uncanny resemblance to ones the human brain has dreamed up...DNA is [like] spaghetti code because nature has been tinkering with the system for billions of years like a bad programmer.'"
Hey guys I met a real girl today and I think she likes me.
She gave me her phone # and it doesn't start with 555! I'm so
excited, I met get to score!
Anyhow, I just had to tell someone. I'm going to go call her
right now!
Wish me luck!
Anyone else find it funny that most gene sequences are proprietary, and hence even DNA isn't Open Source? --Scott
DNA is [like] spaghetti code because nature has been tinkering with the system for billions of years like a bad programmer.
English is not my first language. Can anyone please explain why the word "like" is in brackets, and what this means? Thank you.
If you do anything with a woman, do it in an illogical manner. Be as unreasonable and illogical as possible, and you will get the results. No, it doesn't make sense.
"As soon as YOUR code has had uptime of 120 years or so"
Uhm...it's more like 120 billion years, give or take.
Of course, I guess that's all considered legacy code by now, isn't it?
Let's try not to let fact interfere with our speculation here, OK?