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> The best and most literal parallel I can think of is DNA is like code. Yet I find it interesting, almost uncanny, that we discovered that right around the sam
by jakear 4y ago
> The best and most literal parallel I can think of is DNA is like code. Yet I find it interesting, almost uncanny, that we discovered that right around the same time we started developing prgoramming languages.
Eh... codons were only discovered in 1961 (Crick, Brenner et al. experiment), the Jacquard Loom was invented in 1804.
- dekhn 4y agoI think the better parallel is information theory and DNA coding, which happened around the same time, and there was a lot of flow from the IT folks to the DNA folks when people were trying to deduce the "code". See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3220916/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3220916/ and other things written by Schneider