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"IN JUST OVER a day, a powerful computer program accomplished a feat that took physicists centuries to complete: extrapolating the laws of motion from a pendulum’s swings. Developed by Cornell researchers, the program deduced the natural laws without a shred of knowledge about physics or geometry." (Eurequa). https://lnkd.in/dEC3j_P View in LinkedIn

EUREQUA. "What took Newton years to calculate, Eureqa returned in a few hours on a decent desktop computer." https://lnkd.in/dEC3j_P View in LinkedIn

COMPLEMENTARY RESOURCE. "The competitive success of the Data Science Machine suggests it has a role alongside data scientists. We view the Data Science Machine as a natural complement to human intelligence." https://lnkd.in/dG_krDG View in LinkedIn

HOURS VS MONTHS. "But the win-loss record was not the most impressive takeaway from the competitions. While teams of humans sweat their predictive algorithms for months leading up to competition, the Data Science Machine took somewhere between two and 12 hours to produce each of its entries." https://lnkd.in/dG_krDG View in LinkedIn

HIGH SCORES VS HUMANS. "In 2 of the 3 competitions we beat a majority of competitors, and in the third, we achieved 94 percent of the best competitor’s score. In the best case, with an ongoing competition, we beat 85.6 percent of the teams and achieved 95.7 percent of the top submissions score." (MIT's Data Science Machine). https://lnkd.in/dG_krDG View in LinkedIn

DISTANT GENE SWAPS. "The GTAs then infect other bacteria or archaea, and the transferred DNA integrates into the recipient genome. In marine bacterial communities, the rate of GTA-mediated gene transfer appears to be quite high and often involves distantly related organisms." (GTAs = gene transfer agents). https://lnkd.in/dSemZpD View in LinkedIn

ORIGIN OF EUREQA. “Eureqa is descended from Lipson’s work on self-contemplating robots that figure out how to repair themselves. The same algorithms that guide the robots’ solution-finding computations have been customized for analyzing any type of data." https://lnkd.in/dEC3j_P View in LinkedIn

GENE TRANSFER AGENTS. "Perhaps the most striking showcase for dedicated vehicles of HGT are the gene transfer agents (GTAs), defective prophages that form virus particles in which they package apparently random fragments of the bacterial chromosome rather than the phage genome." (HGT = horizontal gene transfer). https://lnkd.in/dSemZpD View in LinkedIn

BURIED PATTERNS IN LARGE DATA SETS. "The program was unveiled in April, when it used readouts of a double-pendulum to infer Newton’s second law of motion and the law of conservation of momentum. It could be an invaluable tool for revealing other, more complicated laws that have eluded humans." (Eurequa). https://lnkd.in/dEC3j_P View in LinkedIn

CARGO GENES. "Both types of elements are transferred by the conjugation molecular machinery (type IV secretion systems) and typically carry ‘cargo’ genes unrelated to the transposon life cycle. Thus, these selfish elements are at the same time vehicles for HGT that mediate microbial adaptation by introducing new genes into the recipient genomes." (HGT = horizontal gene transfer). https://lnkd.in/dSemZpD View in LinkedIn