2025-09-13 –, Ballroom 3
You, by which I mean all the Eukaryotes in the audience, are running on an operating system a couple of billion years old. Every cell in your body is full of primordial libraries, monkey patches, self-modifying code, viral hacks and even containers embedding a different operating system. This talk is all about the freakish parallels between cell biology and computer architecture, and will leave you less confident than ever that your seemingly complex life is anything more than a molecule's way of making more molecules.
A fun talk intended to get the audience thinking about what programmers can learn from biology and biologists can learn from computer science, and to remind you that no matter how weird technology gets, nature has us all beat.
Nick has attended, presented and volunteered at multiple PyConsAU, as well as LinuxConfAU, BuzzConf, OSDC and various meetups. His consulting career has taken him to many industries and open source projects, and recently he's been developing tools for use in bioinformatics, supporting research into cancer and genetic diseases.