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In biology every single protein (or other biochemical entity) can be thought of as it's own core. It's parallel in an amazing and beautiful way. Or the most bor

In biology every single protein (or other biochemical entity) can be thought of as it's own core. It's parallel in an amazing and beautiful way. Or the most boring way possible. It just depends on if you are a computer scientist or biologist how you would see it.

bdamm 7y ago
There are to this day computer science researchers having conniptions about the impossibility of massively parallel lock-free architectures based on eventual consistency. Yet literally all they must do is open their eyes and see the truth!
- jplayer01 7y ago
  It helps that our brains and bodies are analog. It doesn't matter if a particular variable is changed by different factors at the same time. The total magnitude of all the changes is far more important. Thus, lock-free.
  - farazbabar 7y ago
    Kind of like CRDT (conflict free replicated data types for the biologists amongst us).
whatshisface 7y ago
Protiens? Every particle in every atom is solving exponential-time problems constantly, in parallel. That's the quantum chemistry perspective. :)
- shoo 7y ago
  physical reality seems fairly good at optimising for local energy-minimal solutions another stupid perspective: think of how many clever algorithms and how much computational hardware would be necessary to simulate a small rock from a QM level up. now, what if there was a bespoke piece of super-custom application-specific technology that could efficiently simulate that small rock? there is: it's the rock itself.
  - carrozo 7y ago
    I’m too stoned for this.
    - yellowapple 7y ago
      Yeah, it's really rocking my brain. More (or perhaps less) seriously, this train of thought has some pretty bizarre and mind-hurty implications for the whole "we're living in a simulation" hypothesis.
      - whatshisface 7y ago
        We're living in a simulation designed by aliens who are very vindictive about proving that their computers are better than ours.

bdamm 7y ago

There are to this day computer science researchers having conniptions about the impossibility of massively parallel lock-free architectures based on eventual consistency. Yet literally all they must do is open their eyes and see the truth!

jplayer01 7y ago
It helps that our brains and bodies are analog. It doesn't matter if a particular variable is changed by different factors at the same time. The total magnitude of all the changes is far more important. Thus, lock-free.
- farazbabar 7y ago
  Kind of like CRDT (conflict free replicated data types for the biologists amongst us).

whatshisface 7y ago

Protiens? Every particle in every atom is solving exponential-time problems constantly, in parallel. That's the quantum chemistry perspective. :)

shoo 7y ago
physical reality seems fairly good at optimising for local energy-minimal solutions another stupid perspective: think of how many clever algorithms and how much computational hardware would be necessary to simulate a small rock from a QM level up. now, what if there was a bespoke piece of super-custom application-specific technology that could efficiently simulate that small rock? there is: it's the rock itself.
- carrozo 7y ago
  I’m too stoned for this.
  - yellowapple 7y ago
    Yeah, it's really rocking my brain. More (or perhaps less) seriously, this train of thought has some pretty bizarre and mind-hurty implications for the whole "we're living in a simulation" hypothesis.
    - whatshisface 7y ago
      We're living in a simulation designed by aliens who are very vindictive about proving that their computers are better than ours.