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> probabilistic programming language whose operations are under the same amount of noise as a cell The reason for the probabilistic nature is that biological "
by nihzm 3y ago
> probabilistic programming language whose operations are under the same amount of noise as a cell
The reason for the probabilistic nature is that biological "computations" are eletrochemical reactions and feedback loops, which do not map very well to the concept of "executing code" as in programming languages. I think a closer analogy could be a hardware description language that sythesizes analog circuits for computations (cf. analog computers) which are then subject to noise from electromagnetic radiations in the environment.
So in a certain sense, this has already been done in a very rudimentary way during the pre-digital age of computing.
- dawnofdusk 3y agoAnalog computing is trendy again, though, especially for AI.