[koeng]

It's fundamentally different than a computer and arguably more complete.

The talk of "crawling along the genome" is kinda fundamentally wrong though and is a bit irking - CRISPR kinda just bumps around until it hits a PAM site, in which case it starts checking against sgRNA. Much more random than they make it seem

[anthk]

This is crazier: https://www.sciencealert.com/are-we-all-quantum-computers-wi...

About CRISP, it's like the ultimate Perl+Regex for the body.

[dagurp]

sounds more like sed

[anthk]

Perl and awk can do everything sed(1) does, but it an easier way.

[dagurp]

I know

[drjasonharrison]

"Bumps around until it hits" sounds like a set of magnets arranged to only mate up in a specific direction. Except we have four nucleotides rather than only two magnetic poles.