Re:DNA Data Storage Is Closer Than You Think
by angel_j on Friday July 05, 2019 @12:23PM
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If I can store data in DNA, can I use yeast for genetic algorithms?
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Re:DNA Data Storage Is Closer Than You Think
by zamalek on Friday July 05, 2019 @01:00PM
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You'd have to figure out how to encode the fitness function into the DNA/environment. We're only scratching the surface of how DNA works in its entirety and are likely decades away from being able to "compile to DNA."
Re:DNA Data Storage Is Closer Than You Think
by angel_j on Friday July 05, 2019 @02:42PM
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The genetic variability available to the organism can be treated as normalization / quantization of abstract encoding. Map your desired results to this abstract "latent space" and start breeding yeasts. Build environment with various factors' parameters controlled by actuators attached to computer doing ML, maybe even GAs. The environment is the function!
Re:DNA Data Storage Is Closer Than You Think
by signal_space on Friday July 05, 2019 @12:45PM
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The signal:noise:cost function is prohibitively high.