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COMPUTER LANGUAGE. "The C language uses almost every character on the keyboard, but to be generous in my calculations I’ll only assume that we need the 26 lower-case alpha characters. How many 66-character combinations are there? The answer is 26 raised to the 66th power, or 26^66. That’s roughly 2.4 x 10^93 (10^93 is 1 followed by 93 zeros)." https://lnkd.in/dZqxxrU View in LinkedIn

AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS. "Computer vision, the combination of deep learning and reinforcement learning, natural language interfaces, and question-answering systems are all building blocks to make a physical system autonomous and interactive. Building these autonomous systems today is as much about integrating these methods as inventing new ones." https://lnkd.in/d4R2gad View in LinkedIn

"MACHINE INTELLIGENCE in the virtual world. This time we’re seeing it in the physical world, in the many flavors of autonomous systems: self-driving cars, autopilot drones, robots that can perform dynamic tasks without every action being hard coded. It’s still very early days—most of these systems are just barely useful, though we expect that to change quickly." https://lnkd.in/d4R2gad View in LinkedIn

"DATA TO ACTIONS. Our learning machine doesn’t just recognize one type of input, it comprehends relationships between all inputs. With an insatiable thirst for data, the AI-powered research engine distills potent insights from an ocean of information so that you can make the best–informed decisions possible. We examine data from every angle. We bombard it with hypotheses. We tweak it on every dimension. We squeeze out the most relevant insights. Often ones you didn’t know existed." https://lnkd.in/dDgxbbq View in LinkedIn

SEEING PATTERNS in huge data sets and applying hypotheses to yield better predictions. Robot scientists with big data. https://lnkd.in/dDgxbbq View in LinkedIn

CUT AND PASTE. "DNA transposons never use RNA intermediaries—they always move on their own, inserting or excising themselves from the genome by means of a so-called "cut and paste" mechanism." https://lnkd.in/GEpmJN View in LinkedIn

"VIRUSES as patterns in space-time. Viruses are represented by patterns of computer instructions that exist over time on many computer systems. Viruses are not associated with the physical hardware, but with the instructions executed (sometimes) by that hardware." https://lnkd.in/eCG7b3z View in LinkedIn

BOLT-ON ENTITIES. "Speakeasy’s approach to accomplishing the recombinant computing vision is to cast all devices and services on the network as “components” that implement a small, fixed set of programmatic interfaces which allow them to be “snapped together” at runtime by users." https://lnkd.in/drEH-9B View in LinkedIn

"LIFE is a pattern in space-time rather than a specific material object. Self-reproduction, in itself or in a related organism. Information storage of a self-representation. A metabolism that converts matter/energy. Functional interactions with the environment. Interdependence of parts. Stability under perturbations of the environment. The ability to evolve. Growth or expansion." https://lnkd.in/eCG7b3z View in LinkedIn

LIMITED EXPERIENCE. "This paper presents a case for “recombinant computing”—a set of common interaction patterns that leverage mobile code to allow rich interactions among computational entities with only limited a priori knowledge of one another." https://lnkd.in/dJu-E5i View in LinkedIn