Mary Balducci's Respones

The biggest discovery that I made while doing these readings was that there was so much similarity between the genetic code and computer code. I've taken biology courses before, so I knew that DNA worked using four letters that coded for proteins. However, I've never taken a computer science course so I never really understood how computer coding worked. It was interesting to read the connections made in the Digital Code of Life between the two. I think this has also given me a better understanding of computer coding, since I can relate it to something I already know about.
The thing I understood least from these readings was at the end of the Ode to the Code article. Hayes talks about the fact that there are 64 codons, but only 20 amino acids. One of the proposals for the organization of these is the 2x2x2x2x2x2 hypercube. I am confused about what this would look like, and how does it get across information differently than the 4x4x4 cube currently in use?
The genetic code and computer code are similar because they both code digitally. By doing this, there are less mistakes made between the information and the copy of the information. Both types of codes work by having letters or numbers that convey a meaning that the computer or cell carries out.