Millions of chimeric cells on the same petri dish? That's 1PB on a single glass slide.
Depending on the sequencing tech paired with the rise of Spatial data, the read speed could be formidable.
Needlessly complex setup though. Let's just stick with metals for now.
Pretty sure the substack and main site are the same. First paragraph is at least.
It doesn't matter much, unless you use it to sneak in what you think we should care about, or use it to make philosophical arguments whose circularity is carefully hidden.
- DNA methylation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_methylation)
- Interactions of alleles (what article refers to as the "two versions of each base pair")
- Duplications, deletions, inversions, and other structural variations (https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Structural-Variatio...)
- Physical proximity interactions in 3-dimensional space (https://cmbl.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s11658-023-0...)
- Combinatorial effect (massive) of different alleles in complex systems
Overall, it's not sensible to compare a linear sequence of bits, like a CD (sibling comment) or DVD (the article), to the linear sequence of the genome and conclude that their information content, based on length alone, is in any way comparable.
rhelz•1d ago
This rules out pretty much every nutty theory which evolutionary psychologists propose. Such as we evolved for altruism, we evolved to believe in religion, etc etc. Complete B.S. Exactly how much information would you need to specify a behavior like being predisposed to a belief in religion??? There's less than 80 minutes worth of music's worth of information in our genomes, and most of that is concerned with just keeping us alive.
You are not predisposed to be anything. Go create the kind of person you want to be.
ruuda•3h ago
That’s a very misleading take, this is lossless audio and the majority of the bits are spent encoding noise. You can encode way more audio at perceptually but not technically lossless level in that space.
guilbep•3h ago
out_of_protocol•1h ago
Or awful lot of text information (state of art compressors can do up to 1:10 ratio for plain text, decoder itself is rather small, 750MB compressed could potentially contain like 7GB of text data).
Also, look at demoscene. 4k (4 kB is the size of executable) can do crazy things, and 64kB can fit a lot of nice 3D objects, music, text, complex effects etc. weight less than any screenshot of any moment of running demo. In 95kB you can have full game (google kkringer)
P.S. better example: full snake game in 56 BYTES https://github.com/donno2048/snake
For comparation the link above is 34 bytes, whole sentence is 83 bytes. It's possible to do a lot if we're talking about code
Valgrim•1h ago
Yet at the same time the result of this random code is extremely compressed, to the point we compare it to procedural generative code.
Not sure what we can do with this but it certainly seems like we can once again get inspired by nature on this one.
robviren•1h ago
To expand upon your compression idea, the index it is using exists outside the DNA encoding itself which means it could be holding an absolute ton of data.
Bonus: https://xkcd.com/3056/
bossyTeacher•24m ago
chromatin•20m ago
What an insanely bad take.
Not only did you not read and/or comprehend the article, the article itself undersells the information content of the genome (I'll post on this at the top level).
> You are not predisposed to be anything.
This does not logically follow your preceding statement, even if we were to accept the foregoing limited information content as factual