tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-457368530622792487.post6822152927212250597..comments2023-03-03T00:21:12.673-08:00Comments on Procedural Graphics: NatureDave Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13478596509691546658noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-457368530622792487.post-28969952140360969592011-12-30T05:23:09.730-08:002011-12-30T05:23:09.730-08:00more thoughts:
Biology is the act of trying to de...more thoughts:<br /><br />Biology is the act of trying to debug life, the most complex code in the universe.<br /><br />Debugging a computer program quickly teaches you a deep respect for empiricism.<br /><br />People used to think that bits of DNA they didn't understand were 'Junk DNA', but more and more activity, networks & processes are found in it. DNA is well conserved over massive amounts of replication at great expense, it is unlikely nature wouldn't have optimised it away.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity says that complexity of a string is measured by how hard it is to compress. Or the reverse, the higher the kolmogorov complexity, the better machine you can build with the least amount of resources. Nature is the ultimate demoscene.<br /><br />DNA is of course very hard to compress (nature uses -O11) and the low-complexity areas are probably shaped that way for a higher-level structural reason (ie affecting overall charge of the long strand of DNA and deciding how it will curl up into the shape of a chromosome) so there's more information there, just another step higher up in the system.Dave Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13478596509691546658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-457368530622792487.post-40437032102526848902011-11-02T05:18:51.020-07:002011-11-02T05:18:51.020-07:00http://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-...http://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-To-ComputeDave Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13478596509691546658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-457368530622792487.post-8265609523950318782011-09-27T05:59:50.262-07:002011-09-27T05:59:50.262-07:00Hi Jeb, this really fascinates me too, and I'v...Hi Jeb, this really fascinates me too, and I've recently changed from Java programmer to Bioinformatician.<br /><br />Biologists could do really well learning to code, and coders could learn from biology too. At the moment I'm ridiculously busy coding Perl scripts, but one day I hope to come back to this!Dave Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13478596509691546658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-457368530622792487.post-29367854467742975902011-09-12T04:07:46.359-07:002011-09-12T04:07:46.359-07:00Dude I love the way you think! Great ideas and con...Dude I love the way you think! Great ideas and concepts I follow you. I thought about these concepts while in a biology class in college. Let me know what comes of your discoveries (^.^)b! I would love to see or even help you with this goal.jebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09537726597751154451noreply@blogger.com