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Can you explain how the analogy is stretched? It’s my personal belief that biologists tend to be fairly implementation focused from how they learn about the sys
by domnomnom 9y ago
Can you explain how the analogy is stretched? It’s my personal belief that biologists tend to be fairly implementation focused from how they learn about the systems involved.
In biology there is 2 factor authentication to protect against parasitic spoofing, intrusion detection systems, protected kernel memory, memory hierarchy, policy based permission. It a very nice operating system IMO.
- Cybiote 9y agoAnalogies can help but if taken too far, will provide only illusionary knowledge from superficial similarities. Consider, if you trace out the hierarchies induced by interactions in biological networks and then do the same for an OS's call graph, you find quite different topologies reflecting their different priorities. In computers, in part, efficiency and reuse. In biology, robustness, minimized interdependencies, developmental stability and more. There are things that concern our electronics that do not matter for biology and there are many things biology must allow for that our hardware cannot. Tying things down to the peculiarities of our systems too narrows the scope of applicable models and understanding. Sometimes it is more useful to think in terms of stochastic differential equations than in terms of operating systems.