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HARD TO FIND. "Note that very few compilers will identify orphan code." https://lnkd.in/d9rVas9 View in LinkedIn

LIVING PROTEIN? https://lnkd.in/d7w5k54 View in LinkedIn

ORPHAN COMPUTER CODE. "Dead or unreachable code is code that will never be executed. It manifests itself as variables that are declared but never used, functions that are never called, or code that is skipped because of a branch. Since the dead code is not executed, it is an error, often a logic error. Dead code is created by cavalier programmers. An easy way to create dead code is by use of a goto statement and labels." https://lnkd.in/d9rVas9 View in LinkedIn

PRION PROTEIN FOLDING, or its 3D structure, conveys enough information to change a normal cellular protein into an infectious prion particle. As such, it is a protein gene, a rather controversial concept. https://lnkd.in/e3uKvuP View in LinkedIn

REMEMBER JUNK DNA? That hard-to-explain and rather significant chunk of non-coding DNA in humans and other creatures? Remember mutations, or genetic errors? All relevant to computer code. Remember jumping genes and imported DNA? View in LinkedIn

PROTO-LIFE. "Yet prions don’t reproduce the way living things do, using genetic material; they’re more like zombies in horror movies that turn their human victims into zombies as well. They’re not made up of cells, and they don’t have any kind of metabolism. Because they lack genetic material and a cellular structure, prions are less often grouped in with living things than viruses. https://lnkd.in/ddwhRte View in LinkedIn

SEMANTICS CAN BE DANGEROUS. As can analogies. We will encounter both in the roads ahead. But they can also be playful, ironic, whimsical and inspirational. You decide what works for you. This is not a court of law, but a colorful melting pot of marvelous ideas and concepts. View in LinkedIn

PRION EVOLUTION. "These shapes can evolve and adapt like lifeforms with DNA. As they 'replicate' by triggering shifts in other host prions there are an array of minor errors and changes, and in different conditions the best-suited shapes survive and multiply faster." https://lnkd.in/d4fjU7F View in LinkedIn

LINGUISTIC IMPRINT. "There are hundreds of programming languages, but they are not just separate mechanisms for more of the same — each language leaves an imprint in technological evolution and now scientists have learned how to track that down." https://lnkd.in/dY89BaB View in LinkedIn

INFLUENCE TREES. "Valverde and Solé sampled 347 programming languages spanning a period starting from 1952 when the first piece of code was written, up until 2010...the simple idea of influence trees can be extended to many other artifacts of technological and cultural innovation, way beyond programming languages, which only serve as an example of a highly dynamic change in seemingly homogenous field of ideas." https://lnkd.in/dY89BaB View in LinkedIn