I don't either. It would require an entirely new code: a systematic way to "read" from the polypeptide. I don't think this is possible, because I know how you read from DNA/RNA, and the kind of regularity that is required. A polypeptide does not have that kind of regularity. Alphabet is too large.
More like taking a musical score, and taking the sequence of sharps, flats, naturals etc to create another sequence. It is related to the score, but has nothing to do with the music.
Thanks Phil, you saved me some time! Yes, you clearly could synthesize nucleic acids chains using all 4 bases, but it would use different information than what is actually encoded by the nucleic acids that code for the amino acids.
The common response to pointing this out, namely "They have people doing that" isn't really that different from "I would own slaves if it was legal".
I've long felt the urge to greet anyone I see returning a shopping cart with "Hello, fellow Democrat!"
A schematic representation of two orbiting black holes in their rest system, with amplified radiation between them, and stimulated coherent radiation emanating from them.
What is a black hole laser, you ask? I have the answer to that right here! adamilab.blogspot.com/2021/08/what...
In logic, also known as "ex falso quodlibet".
I once designed a quantum teleporting machine. I believe someone even built it. It teleports exactly one qubit. It does that pretty well.
One hour wait to access the @americanexpress.bsky.social Centurion lounge at Denver airport makes this lounge completely useless.
Going on in 15 mins at APS Summit to tell the world that we have incontrovertible evidence that wave functions do not collapse in quantum measurements arxiv.org/abs/2603.13974
Done with my talk “Beyond AI”
at APS Summit
I will be talking about our new technology IDSeq (extracting information from data without learning, fitting, or training) at APS Summit tomorrow Thursday Mar 19, at 3:30pm. summit.aps.org/events/MAR-W...
How unfortunate that my talk: "Beyond AI: Using information theory to extract information from data without fitting" is just a half hour before yours! summit.aps.org/events/MAR-W...
I‘m at the APS Global Physics Summit in Denver all week. Look me up or DM me if you want to meet. I am speaking Thursday about new methods beyond AI on Thursday, and about quantum measurement on Friday.
Letters AI in front of a black and green computer chip design.
MGI Professor Christoph Adami (@chrisadami.bsky.social) has a new article out in npj Complexity which addresses the question of whether we can use AI to promote a more cooperative society.
Read more here: tinyurl.com/3cjxujmm
Just came across this blog post that I wrote (and forgot about), about the hidden lives of pseudogenes. @philipcball.bsky.social would be interested, as it is "unconventional biology". adamilab.blogspot.com/2015/09/shad...
Can AI be programmed to make others play nice? Evolutionary Game Theory says you can! But not how you might think. Paper out at npj Complexity www.nature.com/articles/s44.... Blog post about the paper: adamilab.blogspot.com/2024/12/can-...
Post a banger that's not in English.
Jacques Brel: Amsterdam
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z0U...
To be clear, Szostak’s functional information is a special case of the “physical complexity” measure I introduced in 2000. It measures the information a sequence has about the environment within which it functions. @philipcball.bsky.social
Incredible that the article fails to mention that Szostak credited the idea of functional information to me in the article where he introduces it, and I wrote an entire book about it. Not great research by the Quanta team.
I’m hoping somebody will tell me how to turn off this bad behavior (I thought I was the only one being annoyed at it). If you have multiple windows open with multiple screens, it results in frantic “where did you go???” expletives.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
No matter how many times I click "Do not show this again", I am shown it again, very time. I feel like I'm part of a psychological experiment.
Here's what he missed. I've been trying to tell people for over 20 years. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... Arxiv link is here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.05642
The cathedral of Notre Dame all lit up for New Years. Instead of fireworks, every single bell in the steeple made itself heard
Happy New Year from Paris ‘y all!
"They found the coats on Thursday morning.
Fifteen winter coats. Good ones, not garbage. Hanging on the chain-link fence outside Lincoln Elementary.No note. No explanation. Just coats zipped up like ghosts waiting for bodies.
Principal Morris freaked out. Called the police. "Could be stolen"
