Month: September 2022

MANY DECORATIONS. “The ascaroside core structures originating from peroxisomal β-oxidation serve as scaffolds for the highly species-specific attachment of additional building blocks originating from diverse primary metabolic pathways, including fatty acid, citric acid, amino acid, carbohydrate, and nucleoside metabolism, to generate highly complex modular assemblies.” https://lnkd.in/d4DhYhz View in LinkedIn

POSSIBLY WIDESPREAD. “Highly complex modular ascaroside assemblies are not restricted to C. elegans and have also been characterized in the necromenic Pristionchus pacificus that is associated with scarab beetles. While the general building blocks utilized by C. elegans and P. pacificus are somewhat similar, the resulting modular assemblies are highly species-specific.” https://lnkd.in/d4DhYhz View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this two weekend fragment from nature on modular language by a type of worm that appears to have syntax rules and significant complexity. It seems that whenever we assume that a creature is simple, time reverses that conclusion, proving perhaps it is us who are simple. We only invented the printing press (in the west) in the fourteenth century; these creatures have been printing words for millennia. View in LinkedIn

INTERACTIVE ELEMENTS. "Imagine a variety of components: hardware and software modules, files, websites, interfaces, users... All these components interact by exchanging information. Assume that neighboring components have the capability to mutually adapt: by sending messages back and forth they negotiate until they achieve a common "understanding", in which they both can settle. But coordination does not stop there: it propagates back and forth between all components, until a globally stable order is created." https://lnkd.in/dkkAEiE View in LinkedIn

CODE ADULTERATION. "Several debuggers modify the target application’s code. The de-bugger by Vanegue et al., for example, injects its code into the debugged process. Other designs such as gdb also modify the target’s code to implement break-points, by replacing the target code with a software interrupt instruction." https://lnkd.in/dHTSZ_H View in LinkedIn

LOOPHOLE. "In a typical developer’s environment the available de-bugging and disassembling tools are not perfect and have limitations that can be exploited by self-modifying code." https://lnkd.in/dHTSZ_H View in LinkedIn

ENCODING. "Code can be encoded in many different ways, ranging from simple substitutions to more complex transformations, such as encryption or compression. Methods vary according to the granularity of encoding, space and run- time overheads." https://lnkd.in/dHTSZ_H View in LinkedIn

TOOLS AND HACKERS. "The concept of hacking entered the computer culture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1960s. Popular opinion at MIT posited that there are two kinds of students, tools and hackers.” https://lnkd.in/dF3neaQ View in LinkedIn

EARLY MIT CULTURE. “A “tool'' is someone who attends class regularly, is always to be found in the library when no class is meeting, and gets straight As. A “hacker'' is the opposite: someone who never goes to class, who in fact sleeps all day, and who spends the night pursuing recreational activities rather than studying." https://lnkd.in/dF3neaQ View in LinkedIn

"A HACKER is an aesthete. There are specialties within computer hacking. An algorithm hacker knows all about the best algorithm for any problem. A system hacker knows about designing and maintaining operating systems. And a “password hacker'' knows how to find out someone else's password." https://lnkd.in/dF3neaQ View in LinkedIn