> For a computer scientist, a biologist’s methods can seem insane;
I actually use biological methods all the time, now that I'm a dev. For instance in Biology, gene knock-out experiments are common, where you damage or delete a gene, and see what breaks. You then know that this gene is important for a given thing.
This is the equivalent to the debugging approach of "if I comment out this code, what happens?"
I actually use biological methods all the time, now that I'm a dev. For instance in Biology, gene knock-out experiments are common, where you damage or delete a gene, and see what breaks. You then know that this gene is important for a given thing.
This is the equivalent to the debugging approach of "if I comment out this code, what happens?"