A colleague's presentation on how nerve cells in fruit flies take on different jobs struck computational biologist Ziv Bar-Joseph as being very similar to a distributed computing problem.
一位同事就果蝇神经细胞的不同分工做了报告，其中指出果蝇神经细胞的分工与分布式计算相似，这一发现让计算机生物学家Ziv Bar - Joseph着实感到吃惊。
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The flies' trick lies in using timing instead of a neighborhood census to determine which cell becomes a bristle, Bar-Joseph and his colleagues report.
The women at the bar had gathered around like flies. If we were friends of Collins that meant we were rich. It didn't matter that we had come in our old clothes; all Anglais dressed like that.