{"id":3869,"date":"2008-06-08T18:37:22","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T22:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2008\/06\/08\/3869"},"modified":"2008-06-08T18:37:22","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T22:37:22","slug":"bacteria-run-computer-solves-math-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2008\/06\/bacteria-run-computer-solves-math-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacteria-Run Computer Solves Math Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/news\/2008\/05\/28\/bacteria-computer.html\" rel=\"external\"><strong>May 28, 2008<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/weblog\/bacteria.jpg\" alt=\"bacteria\" class=\"pic_100px\" \/><strong>A new living computer, bred from E. coli bacteria instead of stamped from silica, has for the first time successfully solved a classic mathematical puzzle known as the Burnt Pancake Problem.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While this bacteria-based computer is more proof of concept than practical, a living computer might one day solve complex mathematical problems faster than silicon supercomputers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The computing potential of DNA far exceeds that of any other material,&#8221; said Karmella Haynes, a researcher at Davidson College and lead study author. &#8220;If we figure out how to increase that capacity in a practical manner we will have much more computing power.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/news\/2008\/05\/28\/bacteria-computer.html\" rel=\"external\"><strong>&#8230;more<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 28, 2008 A new living computer, bred from E. coli bacteria instead of stamped from silica, has for the first time successfully solved a classic mathematical puzzle known as the Burnt Pancake Problem. While this bacteria-based computer is more proof of concept than practical, a living computer might one day solve complex mathematical problems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog","category-geek-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}