Blaise Aguera y Arcas: biology has been doing computer science for 4 billion years
ANR2ME · reddit · 2026-10-20
Blaise Aguera y Arcas writes that biology has been doing computer science for four billion years — before DNA's discovery, Turing and von Neumann worked out the logic of self-replicating machines, showing how matter folds into a system that reads and executes instructions to build itself. The attached image promotes Maxwell, billed by doubleAI as "the first Code Execution Model" claiming 38x faster data pipelines and 4.25x faster AI inference kernels.
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