The document discusses several topics related to biology and genetics including Mendel's discovery of heredity, Watson and Crick's discovery of the structure of DNA, the difference between genotype and phenotype, and how concepts from biology like locality sensitive hashing could be applied to other domains like digital forensics. It also questions whether information theory applied in biology could also be useful for data loss prevention.

1. All That’s Old Is New
again.
jcmurphy@jeffmurphy.org

2. Pay Attention To History Or Repeat
It
Biology - Too Much Data
A Problem of Scale

3. Pay Attention To History Or Repeat
It
Biology - Mendel (1856)
Father of genetics/heredity

4. Structure From Noise
Biology - Watson and Crick* (1953)
Discovered Structure of DNA
* not without controversy

5. Structure From Noise
Genotype - whether or not you carry gene(s)
that manifest the characteristic
Phenotype - Physical/Observable traits
...Blue eyes

6. Structure From Noise
hypothetical analogue:
program structure = genotype
init - subroutine1 - sub2 - sub3
A - T - G - C - … X - Y - Z

7. Structure From Noise
hypothetical analogue:
sandbox activity = phenotype
writefile - resolvedns - openconnection
A - T - G - ...

8. Structure From Noise

9. Kinda Sorta The Same
Similarity Searching:
Locality Sensitive Hashing
Perceptual Hashing

10. Kinda Sorta The Same
Similarity Searching:
Traditional Hash: low collisions, hard to
reverse, small ∆input = large ∆output
LH/pHash: small ∆input = small ∆output

11. Not All That Glitters
Going In The Other Direction:
Applying Information Theory to Biology
Could it apply to DLP?

12. Thanks
Questions: jcmurphy@jeffmurphy.org
Complaints: Wes