Year: 2022

ACTIVE LEARNING. "The Robot Scientist makes use of an iterative approach to experimentation, where knowledge acquired from a previous iteration is used to guide the next experimentation step. This is a process known as Active Learning, where the learner can plan its own agenda, i.e. decide how best to improve its knowledge base and how to go about acquiring this information." https://lnkd.in/dUdRjJH View in LinkedIn

ACTIVE LEARNING "uses abductive logic programming to generate valid hypotheses that explain the observations; and uses these hypotheses to determine the next most informative experiment." https://lnkd.in/dUdRjJH View in LinkedIn

ABDUCTIVE ACTIVE LEARNING. "At the beginning of any investigation, the Robot Scientist has not discovered any information, therefore all possible hypotheses are equally valid. As the directed discovery process continues, each new observation (or experiment/interpretation cycle) will invalidate some of the hypotheses, thereby excluding incorrect discoveries. The experiment selection process aims to choose the experiment most likely to refute the most hypotheses." https://lnkd.in/dUdRjJH View in LinkedIn

"COCKROACHES: Indestructible, and Instructive to Robot Makers. The cockroach structure and motion could work better than other, more wormlike designs for robots to explore sites where war or natural disaster has caused buildings to collapse. “This is the model for soft robots. Roaches could end up being the source of inspiration for machines that save people’s lives. https://lnkd.in/dQSTw9D View in LinkedIn

THRUSHES" "Terrifying are the attent sleek thrushes on the lawn," "More coiled steel than living - a poised" "Dark deadly eye, those delicate legs" "Triggered to stirrings beyond sense - with a start, a bounce, " "a stab" "Overtake the instant and drag out some writhing thing. " "No indolent procrastinations and no yawning states," "No sighs or head-scratchings. Nothing but bounce and stab " "And a ravening second."" "(Ted Hughes). https://lnkd.in/drHWmQF View in LinkedIn

AMOEBA. "Although developing software by self-replication, evolution and natural selection sounds like science fiction, Amoeba has already demonstrated the remarkable fact that in the digital world, order can indeed arise out of chaos. Ironic, perhaps, when our experience with today's software is often quite the reverse." https://lnkd.in/dJPTA3e View in LinkedIn

UNDIRECTED EVOLUTION. "Amoeba draws its inspiration from the 'Tierra' simulator developed by artificial life researcher Thomas Ray, but with one crucial difference: in Tierra, life-forms must be manually introduced into the soup; in Amoeba, the soup is seeded with random instructions, and life-forms spontaneously appear, as if by magic." https://lnkd.in/dJPTA3e View in LinkedIn

ONLY FOUR NUCLEOTIDES BUILD DNA. "There are basically four nucleotide bases, which make up the DNA. Adenine (A), Guanine (G), Thymine (T) and Cytosine(C)." (You knew that, but I am building my case)." https://lnkd.in/e7TPGqw View in LinkedIn

ONLY 20 AMINO ACIDS MAKE PROTEINS. "There are 22 standard amino acids, but only 21 are found in eukaryotes. Of the 22, 20 are directly encoded by the universal genetic code. Humans can synthesize 11 of these 20 from each other or from other molecules of intermediary metabolism. The other 9 must be consumed in the diet." https://lnkd.in/eeMC3wc View in LinkedIn

FINITE SIZE RANGE. "Proteins exist in a finite range of sizes with a limited amino acid alphabet. We find that these restrictions set an intrinsic limit to designing protein interfaces that can bind selectively to target proteins, while remaining relatively repulsive to all other protein interfaces." https://lnkd.in/eTyvTV7 View in LinkedIn