Biologist explains DNA | Nick Lane and Lex Fridman
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Nick Lane is a biochemist at UCL and author of Transformer, The Vital Question, and many other amazing books on biology, chemistry, and life.
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One of the best clips I have seen - really like the guest - thanks for facilitating.
Thanks for the clips lex, nick, and clip guy/gal
Hell of a clip. the anology Lex put forward was literally *chefs kiss*
I agree with Lex. If we can get molecular biologists to look at their work like a programmer who is debugging, they can cure cancer. That's why billg is so interested.
if healthcare goes free market we will have cures but pharma is using the government to stop alternative treatments and such from happening and coming in like stem cells that's why you have to go to this world countries for certain stem cell treatments
Love the clip
Lex's favorite word lately = Propagate
Lol
Haha maybe it’s a *hint hint*
The word often comes up in an AI context (i.e. back propagation), so I'd assume that's where the connection is made. 😅
He should do aerodynamics interviews
Apparently
„Human genome is a mess, but we need the mess to function.” So we basically exist because of the equivalent of all that excel 97 files that our modern world relies on
I just imagine an old school C developer listening to Lex say Javascript (presumably Node) is taking over the backend programming. LOL
Well, I regret getting the mRNA vaccine . Rip
Good luck out there.
"Are you talking about javascript or the genetic code now"
Author Nick Lane with the jokes
"Junk DNA is "no junk!" But instead part of the heritage that will one day led you back to the wholeness of your identity"
-Ashayana Deane
The answer is always found in the last place you look. Once you have it, you stop looking. Maybe life started similarly. It found a not perfect answer and ran with it. Java ran life forms.
Love to all you wild freaky people.
And Lex.
Don't assume that what seems a mess and an accident to your small mind isn't actually a phenomenon several orders of magnitude beyond your mediocre understanding.
Then provide tangible evidence for such a bold claim :)
@TiMMoTEuS
Wut?
With enough computational power it may be possible to simulate other possible replacements of dna.
This is a simulation calculating how well this version operates.
@@darylbenson9682 maybe it is.
JavaScript wasn't the firs languaget in the browser, before that it was VBScript, before that it was Java applets. Also, JavaScript today is nothing like JavaScript back in the early 2000s you could say it's a totally new programming language, re-invented countless times.
Is it better today? I don't know... all I know is I liked VBScript much much better, but it was Microsoft and they messed it up otherwise front-end would be running on VBScript today.
Talk about the quadruple helix DNA structure found in the human body.
i dont get the js comparison
The most messy solution that just "sticks" versus the most robust solution that might need more work for it to be implanted. Contrary to intelligent design, biology starts from simple to complex, so a messy solution seems more natural. I am not saying that the JS metaphor is the best to use, just trying to answer your comment.
Biology runs on 4 nucleotides and 20 amino acids. But there can be many more of those, so why is it that biology uses only that particular set? There are two schools of thought on that: a) that it is a frozen accident b) that evolution has tried others but settled on those.
Lex is saying that JS is also a bit like that. The language itself is very bad by the standards of the modern languages, but it has taken over everything. Everyone kinda assumes that it’s a frozen accident in the above analogy but maybe it IS the optimal language that the evolution of languages has been leading to...
Hope it helps
So easy
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First!
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MRNA "Vaccine" ¿??¿
Lex just sucks at seeing the beauty in javascript especially with V8 and ES6 ... the speed of dev too
I enjoy javascript very much ( I know Python, C, Lisp, Assembler too). But the argument of Lex was, that there first was a crappy language and now it is getting better and better, because so many people put effort in it. The results are for example V8 and ES6.
God's creation!