https://sidcode.github.io/2014-06-16T22:43:56+00:002014-06-16T22:43:56+00:002014-06-16T22:43:56+00:00Siddhant Shrivastavatag:sidcode.github.io,2014-06-16:/letters/the-tree-of-life/

<p>Watching Cosmos [S01E02]. Neil deGrasse Tyson speaks about artificial and natural selection ( dog breeds, and polar bears; respectively ). He also talks that we share our DNA with plants, and furthermore, plants and humans share DNA with birds, etc..So we can backtrack in a similar inductive fashion to reason that …</p>

<p>Watching Cosmos [S01E02]. Neil deGrasse Tyson speaks about artificial and natural selection ( dog breeds, and polar bears; respectively ). He also talks that we share our DNA with plants, and furthermore, plants and humans share DNA with birds, etc..So we can backtrack in a similar inductive fashion to reason that life started as ONE COMMON ancestor.</p> <p>What I think? We have ML, and DM backtracking mechanisms available. Why not think in this direction, that we can establish a correlation between different species, a coming together of various kingdoms, in a way that both explains and justifies evolution - both in the artificial, and the natural way.</p> <p>My hunches are sometimes right, and mostly overstated. But we can try, right? It&rsquo;ll teach us a lot of things. Firstly it&rsquo;ll make us better at looking at ourselves, at the world as one great family (that&rsquo;s what Vasudev Kutumb is all about, right?)</p> <p>If we can use backtracking to predict disease vectors, and weather conditions (from the IIRS orientation session), I believe we can collectively develop a genealogy project for species all over.</p> <p>After all, why am I learning all the tools to process data, and to code? To make the world a better place, right?</p> <p>Remember, we don&rsquo;t need to save the planet, the planet is strong enough to sustain itself; we need to save ourselves, from the disasters we can cause artificially.</p>