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Category: synthetic biology
I got a lot of interesting responses to my post about DIYbio and how modeling innovation in biotech on computer hacker culture may lead to a science that is less "democratized" than what is being proposed. My friend Adam pointed...
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Category: programming
I just saw this neat blog post about Conway's Game of Life projected into three dimensions. You can download the script and play around with it yourself!...
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Category: computer science
My first exposure to programming was as a nerdy elementary schooler playing with Logo, a simple computer language written for educational use as a way to teach basic concepts in programming and computer science. The language controls the behavior of...
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Category: artificial life
What does it mean to create life in a computer? In 1970, John Conway built a simple computer game where a user decides which boxes in a grid are populated and then hits start, letting the computer "evolve" depending on...
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