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Sometimes I wonder what would be the smallest program to generate humans DNA. How many operations would it take and how would it compare to real world iteration

• wood_spirit 3y ago
  Interestingly, dna programs are quite compressible https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_of_genomic_sequencing_data https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_of_genomic_seque...
• arketyp 3y ago
  Not sure what kinds of selection pressures there has been for shorter DNA strings, but presumably you could compress it a great deal putting it in a .zip file. Now imagine the havoc caused by random mutations on that format though.
• amelius 3y ago
  If we ever find a perfect theory of physics, then that might be the smallest program to generate human DNA.