Comment by etatoby
8 years ago
– force the selected couples to mate
– these primitive bodies of data bumped together in their silicon logic cells
– penetrate the virgin domain
– the fruit of their digital loins
– the non-stop electronic orgy
– analogue shades of gray
– its single-minded thrust
– a sufficiently well-endowed FPGA
– strip away such limits and lay bare
Someone needs to get laid. And it's not the "Informatics" researcher.
Sure, a little caked in there. But I think it drives a point. Genetics is all about sex, even through bacterial conjugation. It's ultimately the exchange of DNA, of construction patterns. Every person reading this is a product of sex. Every person everywhere at any point in time, past or future, is a product of sex. We don't like to think of it in this way, but we simply can't and don't exist without it.
Way I see the point of that clumsy alliteration is that this particular, traditionally dry, compsci approach is about simulating sex. We find vulgar distasteful, and yet forcing circuits to evolve has a parallel to that vulgarity.