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Basically, this is how you serialize flowers.
by nine_k 2y ago
Basically, this is how you serialize flowers.
- ravedave5 2y agoThis made me laugh then ponder. That's exactly it.
- echelon 2y agoThis looks a lot like SMILES [1], which is another serialization scheme. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Molecular_Input_Line_Entry_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Molecular_Input_Lin...
- dekhn 2y agoI was just going to post that you could probably make an autoencoder over flowers and use it as an embedding to probe genomic alterations that tweak the flower generator functions
- astroalex 2y agoDNA is how you serialize flowers!
- nine_k 2y agoDNA serializes the whole plant. A cherry tree flower can be described more compactly than the entire cherry tree.
- pvaldes 2y agoNope. DNA is not really useful for show boundaries between species, because we all share a lot of it and an only a very specialist expert would know what genes make the flower. Is also very expensive and time consuming. Plant families have consistent, easily recognizable and often stable floral formulas [1], that don't change among entire tribes. Finding an interval of families to classify our sample is much easier this way, does not need expensive machines and can be done in the middle of a jungle at 1000 Km of the next laboratory. In any case floral formulas are just a small part in the whole picture. [1] This was the master plan; and now here come the tropics with its own agenda.