Based on the title and the summary, I thought the guy was plugging wires into algae in a Petri dish and getting some magical output that lets him beat the marke

Based on the title and the summary, I thought the guy was plugging wires into algae in a Petri dish and getting some magical output that lets him beat the market. Turns out, he's crunching numbers with a computer using a mathematical model borrowed from computational biology. This doesn't sound all too different to what quant hedge funds do currently, unless I'm missing something?