Nucleotide

And we're going to do a DNA healing on him.

Last, and DNA, of course, is the recipe that tells the cells how to behave, comprised of four nucleic acids represented by four letters, A-T-C-G.

One strand can have anywhere from 100,000 to a billion letters on it, and I'm watching those letters get resequenced.

So we're taking the DNA back to a normal recipe.

It almost suggests that sort of all the functions for a living cell or a living entity or a living whatever it is, and evolving whatever it is, could have been supported by RNA.

And if you look at it sort of from a mathematician's point of view, you know, what is RNA? It's a string of A-T-C, well, A-U-C-G, very similar to DNA's A-T-C-G.

One might argue that DNA also, if it has the same kinds of capabilities, is sufficiently rich in its behavioral repertoire to support all the things that life needs without the proteins, without the RNA, and so forth.

And I know that there are four nucleotides that play the role in DNA.

You have all sorts of interactions between chromosomes.

Are any of those complex phenomena reliable enough and describable enough and repeatable enough and so forth that you could call it ground truth? Maybe, but it's also possible that we're not there yet, right? We don't know what's fundamental beyond the ATCG.

It's quite possible that there are a lot of fundamental things that are there, but we just don't know them yet.

One example, I guess, would be the genetic code, right? We have a triplet code where three bases will specify an amino acid.

So yes, I will mourn.

I would assume that he, 'cause he likes to throw in little references to, to other IPs in his stuff, so, uh, I would expect that Master Chief was going to mow down a bunch of ETs.

That would be awesome.

Yeah, I was just thinking that.

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Xbox employees announcing a new initiative called Xbox Labs.

Claiming to be inspired by a bunch of vibe-coded decomp projects she saw online, the initiative itself aims to take those projects and turn those concepts into something that Xbox players can actually play.

Taken at face value, the memo sounds as though Sharma got a shotgun blast in the face of X's algorithm and decided to run with it, seeing the flood of infinite posts that get pushed into the feed on the site.

Um, and this is all lots of, you know, lots of sequence data.

So looking at ATCG over and over again.

Um, and luckily there's computer people that are way smarter than I am that can take a whole bunch of data and distill it down into some, some easier answers.

I'm sure they're using AI these days too to help that as well.