Conversation with #hplusroadmap at Thu 03 Apr 2008 04:54:12 PM CDT on kanzure@irc.freenode.net (irc)

(2008-04-03 16:54:12) The topic for #hplusroadmap is: happy bunny day - day of the replicator || http://heybryan.org/ http://fennetic.net/
(2008-04-03 20:44:09) Enki-2 left the room (quit: Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer)).
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(2008-04-03 20:50:45) kanzure: Hey Enki-2.
(2008-04-03 21:36:19) Enki-2: hey
(2008-04-03 21:45:43) kanzure: mostly useless, but a good compilation - http://www.econphd.net/notes.htm economics lectures from across the web
(2008-04-03 21:45:56) kanzure: of course, economics is going to tank if any of our ideas are correct
(2008-04-03 23:13:05) kanzure: REQUIREMENTS:
(2008-04-03 23:13:05) kanzure: - something other than computation
(2008-04-03 23:13:05) kanzure: - simpler, more robust than the Winfree switch
(2008-04-03 23:13:05) kanzure: - what should we do with transcriptional switches, gates, circuits?
(2008-04-03 23:13:05) kanzure: - what can you do with transcriptional switches that are interesting, computationally?
(2008-04-03 23:13:05) kanzure: - carry out a computation / forment a new emergent property / the whole must be greater than the sum of the parts
(2008-04-03 23:13:05) kanzure: --- ex: ring oscillator
(2008-04-03 23:13:05) kanzure: - Sketch a circuit that can forment the emergence of a new property
(2008-04-03 23:13:05) kanzure: - to go beyond what you can predict (are emergent)
(2008-04-03 23:13:05) kanzure: - we're not going to beat electronic algorithmic execution, ever, so what are we trying to do?
(2008-04-03 23:13:05) kanzure: - Emergent properties are interesting because that is sort of what we are.  A bunch of genes ganged together and coupled with cellular machinery make us.  As Zack might say, we're 'matter computers.' (as opposed to what computers?)
(2008-04-03 23:13:05) kanzure: - amorphous computation, practical implementation of nucleic acid circuits
(2008-04-03 23:13:05) kanzure: - my DNA compiler project
(2008-04-03 23:13:05) kanzure: - tic-tac-toe implemented in DNA logic gates
(2008-04-03 23:13:13) kanzure: I am clueless. fenn, Enki-2?
(2008-04-03 23:33:41) kanzure: fenn: http://heybryan.org/chats/2008-04-03_self-replication_with_Tony.html