{"id":362,"date":"2003-04-23T23:03:30","date_gmt":"2003-04-24T03:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cephas.net\/?p=362"},"modified":"2003-04-23T23:03:30","modified_gmt":"2003-04-24T03:03:30","slug":"biological-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2003\/04\/23\/biological-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"Biological Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/\">Kottke<\/a> and a couple other people <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticbag.org\/files\/misc\/annotating_biological_computing.txt\">blogged<\/a> Eric Bonabeau&#8217;s talk on Biological Computing using <a href=\"http:\/\/hydra.globalse.org\/\">Hydra<\/a>.  Biological computing is an amazing concept.  Seems like we programmers spend 99% of our time creating &#8216;palaces of abstraction&#8217;; (to steal a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netcrucible.com\/blog\/abstract.html\">phrase<\/a> from Josh), reducing the world to manageable bits.  Biological computing lets all that loose&#8230; Build it so that you don&#8217;t have control.  Add two parts of this and three of that and see what happens.  Fascinating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Kottke and a couple other people blogged Eric Bonabeau&#8217;s talk on Biological Computing using Hydra. Biological computing is an amazing concept. Seems like we programmers spend 99% of our time creating &#8216;palaces of abstraction&#8217;; (to steal a phrase from Josh), reducing the world to manageable bits. Biological computing lets all that loose&#8230; Build it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2003\/04\/23\/biological-computing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biological Computing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}