
Frances Arnold: From taxi driver to Nobel Prize
The Life Scientific
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Evolution Is Right in Front of Our Faces
When faced with a complex and difficult problem, that one should look to the processes that work. Evolution is right in front of our faces as an engineer would be foolish to go and do something difficult like design from first or even third principles. So why not blanket the system with changes and let the system tell you what matters? I said, let's just find the answer first and then try to back out what the rules are. But it turns out it's wonderful to get the answer. Your funder runs off shortling with joy and you've got five years to figure out what on earth did you do to get this answer?"
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