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> Take the example of a spaghetti codebase. Take the example of a spaghetti codebase. I think this actually just further proves the GP more than correct. Comp
by braindeath 7y ago
> Take the example of a spaghetti codebase. Take the example of a spaghetti codebase.
I think this actually just further proves the GP more than correct.
Comparing the complexity of determining the root cause of some disease processes and biological processes in general to a "spaghetti codebase" just underscores the disconnect that programmers and engineers have with some of the complexity in nature. There is no manmade codebase shitty or otherwise, even large enough to approximate the complexity of understanding even some of the more rudimentary biological mechanisms, let alone extending that to actual clinical disease presentation.
In clinical medicine we don't necessarily think "the answer is in there somewhere", we don't know the answer, and further the full answer is most likely unknowable in our lifetime, so effectively as far as providing care is concerned, the answer really isn't there.
- stevenhuang 7y agoThe point of the comparison was only to illustrate the shared experience of lacking answers due to complexity, nothing more. I am aware of and entirely sympathetic to the order of magnitude differences in complexity between biological processes and digital constructs. It was not my intention to compare the two as if they were on equal footing, though I can see how it can be interpreted that way--my fault.