Tag: data engineering

An essay prompted by Alan Kay's 2011 talk on why the Internet and living systems scale while most software does not, with his numbers checked against real sources, and what the argument implies for a personal molecular data system built from a genome, a blood panel, and a glucose trace.

Why the data structure chosen for a genome, a variant set, an expression matrix, or a phylogeny decides which questions can be asked and what runs in reasonable time, prompted by a Boundary talk on coding agents.