Showing posts with label biological complexity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biological complexity. Show all posts

Modular complexity, and reverse engineering the brain

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The Forbes columnist Matthew Herper has a profile of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen who has placed his bets on a brain institute whose ...

Physics, biology and models: A view from 1993 and now

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Twenty three years ago the computer scientist Danny Hillis wrote an essay titled " Why physicists like models, and why biologists s...

Three reasons why nobody should be surprised by junk DNA

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Science writer Carl Zimmer just wrote an article  in the New York Times about the junk DNA wars and it's worth a read. Zimmer prese...
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Modular complexity and the problem of reverse engineering the brain

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Bell's number calculates the number of connections between various components of a system and scales exponentially with those comp...

Precision medicine is not precision engineering

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From the NYT, a plea for not getting carried away with the vision of 'moonshot medicine' as precision engineering. The op-ed is...
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"Clueless machines being ceded authority far beyond their competence"

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Edge.org which is well-known for asking big-picture questions and having leading thinkers offer their answers to the questions has a...
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What if the Manhattan Project had been like an Alzheimer's disease drug discovery project

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The vast K-25 gaseous diffusion plant at Oak Ridge - an engineering endeavor (Image: Nuclear Secrecy Blog) Every once in a while you wi...
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