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Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

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  1. aakil · · focus · HN ↗
    This shows why biology is so much harder a problem area for LLMs than math, finding RTs is tedious but pretty doable today, they had to scope the problem down a lot from something that would be the equivalent of Navier Stokes in biology. Glad they’re doing it though, even if it’s just marketing.
    1. encyclopediai · · focus · HN ↗
      Every day now I expect that they or somebody alike will discover in our genes that we (ie life) are lambda terms, combinators or something similar to Universally Programmable Intelligent Matter <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.eecs.utk.edu&#x2F;~bmaclenn&#x2F;UPIM&#x2F;UPIM3.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.eecs.utk.edu&#x2F;~bmaclenn&#x2F;UPIM&#x2F;UPIM3.pdf or chemSKI <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imar.ro&#x2F;~mbuliga&#x2F;talks&#x2F;chemski-with-tokens.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imar.ro&#x2F;~mbuliga&#x2F;talks&#x2F;chemski-with-tokens.html

      All it takes is to identify the syntax, so to say.

      1. hardbass · · focus · HN ↗
        I have bookmarked the links to read later but until then I would ask in what sense? To my knowledge the known physics currently is all within the realms of a Turing machine, which is equivalent to lambda calculus.
        1. Paracompact · · focus · HN ↗
          A model of lambda calculus with a much smaller Kolmogorov complexity, them.
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