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Arbie's Unoriginally Titled Book Blog
It's a blog! Mainly of book reviews.
Currently reading
Station Zero
Progress:
220/282 pages
The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition
Progress:
749/997 pages
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
The Uncertain Land and Other Poems
Progress:
8/160 pages
The Heptameron (Penguin Classics)
Progress:
152/544 pages
The Poems and Plays of John Masefield
Progress:
78/534 pages
Poems Selected
Progress:
4/50 pages
Selected Poems
Progress:
18/160 pages
The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse
Hainish Novels & Stories, Vol. 2
Progress:
133/789 pages
Reading progress update: I've read 172 out of 320 pages.
I would hazard a guess that Feynman's favourite science outside physics was molecular biology and it appears here in the guise of a naturally occurring "computer"; the copying of base sequences to mRNA is the computation at hand and is completely reversible. The computation is made to go in the desired direction by the relative abundance of necessary chemicals in the cell. Illustrates what reversible computing really means better than anything preceding.