On: Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any other meat industry

[dokein]

Not "a" random number generator, but rather trillions of random number generators running in parallel.

[throwaway5752 → dokein]

The sad thing is that this understates the parallelism of the evolutionary process by ... many orders of magnitude. A single human gut has on the order of 100 trillion bacteria. Also, the gp poster seems to be unaware of plasmids and conjugation process, too. (unless it was sarcasm that went over my head, which it very well may have been)

[erikpukinskis → throwaway5752]

I would gladly take 1000 vacuum tubes over 100 trillion random number generators.

[young_unixer → dokein]

And a natural machine learning algorithm.

[erikpukinskis → dokein]

Same thing