Posted by Jason Morrison | Feb 28th, 2008

Traffic is a routing problem

2 ideas and then 1 idea: <p>1. <span class="caps">GPS</span> devices need more information about real-time traffic information. The best source for this is other GPSes that are also stuck in traffic. If they could communicate, they could intelligently route traffic to optimally spread traffic over primary and alternate routes. There are products that do this. iPhone and Android would also...

Posted by Jason Morrison | Feb 6th, 2008

lolscience

I actually had to register for a LiveJournal account today (ack), but it was for a good cause: to post to lolscience. <ul> <li><a href="http://community.livejournal.com/lolscience/25744.html">imma chargin mah mRNA!</a></li> <li><a href="http://community.livejournal.com/lolscience/26008.html">teh central dogma: it goes &ldquo;VRMMMMMMMM&rdquo;</a></li> </ul>

Posted by Jason Morrison | Feb 6th, 2008

Cell signaling, computer architecture, functional programming, and AI blackboards

While thinking about synthetic biology, I find it useful to identify analogues of biological systems in a discipline I am already familiar with, computer science. This helps me better understand the new concept and can also raise questions about the new system that already have discussions around them in the CS world. Of course, the fidelity of such metaphors is not 100%, so I have to take care to ground such...