<story><title>Aging Is a Communication Breakdown</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/70/variables/aging-is-a-communication-breakdown</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexpetralia</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s always fun when people frame any given problem as an engineering problem. I&amp;#x27;d enjoy seeing the reverse: an engineering problem framed as an artistic or literary problem, for example.</text></item><item><author>gen220</author><text>Translating problems across domains alert (!).&lt;p&gt;This article got me thinking. Oncology research sounds like live-debugging the race conditions of a millions-year-old, self-mutating program with billions (trillions) of lines of source code... And to top it all off, it&amp;#x27;s written in a language whose syntax is elusive.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re lucky, you can sometimes observe some aspects of its execution, but always at the cost of context-depriving tunnel vision, and only with a really expensive and proprietary IDE.&lt;p&gt;If that analogy&amp;#x27;s anywhere close to the mark, I can&amp;#x27;t imagine the patience of the people doing this research; bravo, sincerely.&lt;p&gt;With that analogy, this article suggests that researchers have attached an information-theory-backed meaning to a previously-observed pattern in the observed life cycle of our cells. The black box is revealing itself, with deliberate observation, to be an increasingly intricate and beautifully-designed grey box. Every lumen of that box is hard-fought, and must be super rewarding!&lt;p&gt;Nature&amp;#x27;s one heck of an engineer :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sowhatquestion</author><text>I would recommend Kafka&amp;#x27;s short story &amp;quot;The Great Wall of China&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Aging Is a Communication Breakdown</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/70/variables/aging-is-a-communication-breakdown</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexpetralia</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s always fun when people frame any given problem as an engineering problem. I&amp;#x27;d enjoy seeing the reverse: an engineering problem framed as an artistic or literary problem, for example.</text></item><item><author>gen220</author><text>Translating problems across domains alert (!).&lt;p&gt;This article got me thinking. Oncology research sounds like live-debugging the race conditions of a millions-year-old, self-mutating program with billions (trillions) of lines of source code... And to top it all off, it&amp;#x27;s written in a language whose syntax is elusive.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re lucky, you can sometimes observe some aspects of its execution, but always at the cost of context-depriving tunnel vision, and only with a really expensive and proprietary IDE.&lt;p&gt;If that analogy&amp;#x27;s anywhere close to the mark, I can&amp;#x27;t imagine the patience of the people doing this research; bravo, sincerely.&lt;p&gt;With that analogy, this article suggests that researchers have attached an information-theory-backed meaning to a previously-observed pattern in the observed life cycle of our cells. The black box is revealing itself, with deliberate observation, to be an increasingly intricate and beautifully-designed grey box. Every lumen of that box is hard-fought, and must be super rewarding!&lt;p&gt;Nature&amp;#x27;s one heck of an engineer :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mushufasa</author><text>Read italo calvino!</text></comment>