Current Events > College student gets DOOM running on E. Coli Cells

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DnoOOgYxck

For going on two decades, amateur programmers and professional scientists alike have engaged in an unending quest to get the game "Doom" to run on, well, everything.

Now, an MIT doctoral candidate has taken the Doom thing to a whole other level by getting it to run sort of on some E. coli cells.

In a video about her stunning accomplishment and its accompanying pre-peer-reviewed paper, MIT biotech student Lauren "Ren" Ramlan admitted that getting cells to actually play Doom "would be a behemoth feat that I cannot even imagine approaching."

Nevertheless, the mad scientist points out that it's acceptable "within the culture" of "Doom runs on everything," or DROE to those within said community, to have the game's characteristic 8-bit frames "displayed on the screen of a novel device" and there are few screens more novel than Ramlan's gut bacteria cell arrays.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mad-scientist-gets-doom-running-on-e-coli-cells/ar-BB1hKzpl

Misleading topic title, as the student never succeeds at that as it would take a estimated 600 years to do that. Also the research dedicated to this a big waste of time, and possibly even money.

Number090684 posted...

Misleading topic title, as the student never succeeds at that as it would take a estimated 600 years to do that. Also the research dedicated to this a big waste of time, and possibly even money.

She did get it running it was just that the frame rate was 1 frame per 70 minutes and you'd need to play the game for 600 years to beat it.

But also it wasn't really running on cells. The cells were the screen. It was still running on regular computer hardware. I want to know when we have a front mission 1 style brain chip.

Umm wtf

i guess you could say the e. coli medium has a **** framerate

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b55f29b1.png

but in all seriousness that's incredibly impressive. though i am curious about whether there are general purpose applications of the neural-cellular chips mentioned, the engineering challenges associated with their durability, and the landscape of ethics considerations, as well as how they compare performance-wise with more artificial versions that seem more commonplace.

Number090684 posted...

Also the research dedicated to this a big waste of time, and possibly even money.

a research study isn't some machine that you put money into and a technological breakthrough pops out of

a lot of it is really about exploring the possibilities and identifying the constraints, the results of which go on to inform subsequent research

interesting studies like this also likely inspire others to pursue research in the same field

The cells aren't anything more than a monitor with a really, really bad resolution, bit depth and refresh rate. Doom is still being ran by a normal computer.