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our relationship to computation got weird when we moved to digital computers. Like, I don’t think anyone was saying “life is like millions of slide-rules solvin
by jes5199 1y ago
our relationship to computation got weird when we moved to digital computers. Like, I don’t think anyone was saying “life is like millions of slide-rules solving logarithms
in parallel”. but now that computers are de-materialized, they can be a metaphor for pretty much anything
- mannykannot 1y agoGood point - maybe the analogy to computation arises simply because digital computation and the synthesis of DNA, RNA and proteins are all performed by discrete-state machines?
- jes5199 1y agodoes DNA/RNA keep state other than the position of the read head?
- mannykannot 1y agoNot as far as I know, but that is not saying much.