Month: September 2022

SELECTION OF THE PERFECT. "On the other hand, very many enzymes appear not to be involved in metabolic control...and for these we can ask to what extent the selective pressures of evolution have produced the perfect catalyst....In this Account we shall suggest one measure of perfection." http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ar50112a001 View in LinkedIn

PERFECT FITNESS. "We speak of the perfection of nature but also, and even more frequently, of that of human productions, which we customarily call perfect when they are entirely in accord with the purpose for which they were produced." https://lnkd.in/dGdFrHS View in LinkedIn

PREVAILING PERFECTION VIEW. "The concept of perfection in the natural world was integral to pre-Darwinian rationalizations of nature as evidence of the designing hand of a providential Creator." https://lnkd.in/dqgy8Hd View in LinkedIn

BREAK WITH THE PAST. "Perfection and progress were abstractions that had no place in Darwin's pragmatic and relativistic scheme." Yet there were many nods towards the older (and religious) viewpoint. https://lnkd.in/dqgy8Hd View in LinkedIn

PROGRESS TOWARDS PERFECTION. "As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection." (Darwin). https://lnkd.in/dWKSysJ View in LinkedIn

MARCH OF PROGRESS. "In one particular sense the more recent forms must, on my theory, be higher than the more ancients; for each new species is formed by having had some advantage in the struggle for life over other and preceding forms." (Darwin). https://lnkd.in/deybuH5 View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this first weekend on the theme of perfection in nature. Humans want to see order in the universe, stability, and perfection. Some of the recent ideas that humanity has encountered are those of chaos, instability and change, and imperfection. These ideas are unsettling to many, and to the collective consciousness that has been fed an ordered hierarchical world. And the quantum world in particular has put the fox in with the pigeons. View in LinkedIn

BACKDOOR. "Unused gates still present parasitic loading. It can affect timing and therefore the output waveforms." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn

GENETIC PROGRAMMING. "My 'ant colony' produced ants that got progressively better at finishing the first 80% of the maze, but the maze got more difficult towards the end, and as things got more difficult, they got stuck - so they would get faster and faster at getting 80% of the way there and then, unable to figure out the next bit, just hide to maximize the 'points' my system would grant them, and their chances of survival - how awesome is that! - my own (extremely basic) computer system outsmarted me." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn

AI TEMPER TANTRUM. "Oh man. We've done it. We've finally forced an AI to ragequit." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn