Reaction to headline: Now program them like computers to compute like computers. I want an exponentially growing CPU! Reaction to article: WTF is this garba

Reaction to headline: Now program them like computers to compute like computers. I want an exponentially growing CPU! Reaction to article: WTF is this garbage? We've been able to build RNA sequences forever. Anyone who has read ANYTHING about bioinformatics knows RNA works like 'computer code' to tell a cell how to make a protein. This is high school level biology. 'The researchers made their invention by first modelling all possible RNA sequence interactions on a computer.' No, they didn't. Jesus Christ no they didn't. I don't know what they actually DID, or what they even CLAIM to have done, but they did not do this. First off, there is no limit to the number of possible RNA sequences. Secondly, there is no limit to the variety of possible interactions. You know Folding@Home? It simulates protein folding? That's what happens after you feed some RNA into a cells protein factory. So even if you figured out the infinite variety of proteins possibly created by the infinite variety of RNA sequences interacting with themselves and all the rest of the cellular contents (including potential viruses or bacteria that snuck in), then you'd have to solve every single folding problem on all of them. Once you get to the actual words of the actual people doing the science, hey magic, it actually makes sense and sounds cool! But WOW, whoever wrote that press release up to the point where the closing quotation starts? That person needs to never write a press release for a scientific finding ever again. Humanity will be better off!