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MUTATIONS IN CODE. "Changing bits in the code will at best do nothing and at worse make the code cease to function properly. There is a field in computing called genetic algorithms which are designed to simulate evolutionary processes to arrive at a solution, but they are specifically tailored to a particular problem." https://lnkd.in/evQuB2z View in LinkedIn

COSMIC RAYS: what is the probability they will affect a program? (Just like DNA mutations). " ""It depends in part on where the program is being executed and how well it's shielded. On Earth, the cosmic ray flux is much lower than in deep space, or even near Earth orbit. The Hubble Space Telescope, for instance, produces raw images that are riddled with cosmic ray traces." http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2580933/cosmic-rays-what-is-the-probability-they-will-affect-a-program View in LinkedIn

SUPER-EFFICIENT CHIPS. "The likelihood of this being caused by a random error (or mutation) is almost none, since most errors in a code will just keep it from working. The error would have to be an entire line of code that fits into the existing code for it to work, and that just doesn't happen randomly very often." (Most bio-mutations are deleterious). https://lnkd.in/evQuB2z View in LinkedIn

ALPHA PARTICLE ERRORS. "A 2011 Black Hat paper discusses the real-life security implications of such bit-flips in the Internet's DNS system. The paper found up to 3,434 incorrect requests per day due to bit-flip changes for various common domains. Many of these bit-flips would probably be attributable to hardware problems, but some could be attributed to alpha particles." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_error View in LinkedIn

COSMIC RAY ERRORS. "One experiment measured the soft error rate at the sea level to be 5,950 failures in time (FIT) per DRAM chip. When the same test setup was moved to an underground vault, shielded by over 50 feet (15 m) of rock that effectively eliminated all cosmic rays, zero soft errors were recorded. In this test, all other causes of soft errors are too small to be measured, compared to the error rate caused by cosmic rays." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_error View in LinkedIn

SOFT ERRORS. "In electronics and computing, a soft error is a type of error where a signal or datum is wrong. Errors may be caused by a defect, usually understood either to be a mistake in design or construction, or a broken component." https://lnkd.in/dhsszwF View in LinkedIn

SELF-MODIFYING CODE. "In a programming language called Lisp, the source code to the program is data available to the program itself. It's pretty trivial in this environment to write self-modifying programs, and professional Lisp developers do this as a matter of course. Most of this self modification is bound within terms described by the programmer, but there's no reason a sufficiently sophisticated program couldn't have unbounded ability to self-modify." https://lnkd.in/evQuB2z View in LinkedIn

BIOLOGICAL MODEL. "There is great utility in algorithms modeled after biological processes. Google's Deep Dream is a neural net that was originally used to characterize pictures. Facebook uses such algorithms for face recognition. Lots of image and video processing use these algorithms. My late cousin used genetic algorithms in his Alzheimer's research. And, of course, many of these algorithms are used in video game AI." https://lnkd.in/evQuB2z View in LinkedIn

MACHINE LEARNING. "A whole industry, primarily around stock markets and statistical analysis, calls this Machine Learning, and they use algorithms which are designed to simulate analog signal processing, model neurons, or even simulate DNA and mutation over generations, to compute some result or another." https://lnkd.in/evQuB2z View in LinkedIn

REPRODUCTION IS THE GATE. "But programs do not self-replicate and there is no such thing as selection in a computer environment. You need all three (mutation, reproduction, selection) for evolution to occur." https://lnkd.in/evQuB2z View in LinkedIn