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by k9s9 2707 days ago
You maybe right. It took about a 100 years of thousands of weavers playing with punch cards, trying to increase loom efficiency, before Joseph Marie Jacquard perfected it. Until that happened, inspiring Charles Babbage, mathematicians had not produced any worthwhile computational machines. We have probably the same problem in biology. We need thousands of people playing and producing work like this before we see major mastery at the cellular level.