Marcus/Glen -
On 9/12/13 6:23 PM, glen e. p. ropella wrote:
Or do you also need [..] doping [..]
Saw this on /. this morning.
http://people.umass.edu/gbecker/BeckerChes13.pdf
Yikes..
Reading this article reminded me of the following:
UNM/HPC did some Visualization work for Sandia regarding both MEMS and
IC "diffing" back around 2000 that was impressive at the time. Part of
the challenge was partial data from multilayered work. I was doing
ad-hoc (e.g. free) consulting with them at the time and found it one of
the more interesting problems... among other things, we looked at the
equivalent of "blink comparators" and also dabbled with "stereopsis" as
a method for looking for *significant* differences among the plenitude
of noisy, *insignificant* differences.
This level of "mutation" seems precedented in various parts of Molecular
Biology and I'm reminded how intrinsically "digital" molecular biology
is, despite living in an analog milieu, yielding idealized random
numbers from the (brownian) environment. My limited understanding of
(some) viral mechanisms seems to be a good analogy... the goal being
to introduce differences which affect function of host cellular
machinery without being detectable by simple inventory style means.
Every time this "arms" race escalates to a new strata (in this case
chemistry within the morphology), a new level of indirection or degree
of freedom is added to the system... it seems as though (can't conjure a
good example without going off on a tangential ramble) there is a
structural or phase space imperative that stacking too many degrees of
freedom will lead to a complexity collapse. It may be part of the
story of punctuated equilibrium?
- Steve
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