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The GitHub example actually is pretty spot on. If you wrote a non trivial piece of code in 2016, then in 2020 it was used verbatim in another program, what woul
by thehappypm 5y ago
The GitHub example actually is pretty spot on. If you wrote a non trivial piece of code in 2016, then in 2020 it was used verbatim in another program, what would your conclusion be?
- fastaguy88 5y agoFor a non-trivial piece of code, the conclusion might be that it was copied (horizontal code transfer??). But the 6 amino acids is not a "non-trivial piece of code" -- it is a trivial short string of letters. So the more relevant question is, how often do we see "dogcat" in GitHub (468 repository names). Or perhaps something more nonsensical: "ifdlog" (6 letters from "goldfish" reversed): 1 repository and 25 code results. "hsifdl" - 1 code result. Random things occur at random.
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- thehappypm 5y agoSure I will not argue that the code showing up somewhere is statistically interesting. What’s interesting is that it showed up exactly once and in a Moderna patent. What’s the probability of that? That of the random strings in the Moderna patent that it would be an exact match to a string in the COVID genome but nowhere else?
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