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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

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

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

PERPETUATION IS SELECTED. "Natural selection has no foresight or intentions. In general, natural selection simply selects among individuals in a population, favoring traits that enable individuals to survive and reproduce, yielding more copies of those individuals' genes in the next generation." Sometimes not. http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/misconceptions_faq.php View in LinkedIn

NEEDS ARE NOT SELECTED. "Natural selection has no intentions or senses; it cannot sense what a species or an individual "needs." Natural selection acts on the genetic variation in a population, and this genetic variation is generated by random mutation — a process that is unaffected by what organisms in the population need." https://lnkd.in/dNENRRj View in LinkedIn

NO GREAT BLUEPRINT. "Evolution doesn't have plans, so it doesn't make mistakes. It does neither right things nor wrong things. It merely does things. If it did have intentions, then it would have a very strange sense of humor." https://lnkd.in/d5-KVFK View in LinkedIn

NATURE IS ALWAYS IMPROVING. "In living bodies, variation will cause the slight alterations, generation will multiply them almost infinitely, and natural selection will pick out with unerring skill each improvement. Let this process go on for millions of years; and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds." (Darwin). http://www.bartleby.com/11/6004.html View in LinkedIn

COULD-BE-WORSE-PERFECTION. "Nor ought we to marvel if all the contrivances in nature be not, as far as we can judge, absolutely perfect; and if some of them be abhorrent to our ideas of fitness...The wonder indeed is, on the theory of natural selection, that more cases of the want of absolute perfection have not been observed." (Darwin). https://lnkd.in/dWKSysJ View in LinkedIn

CONTEXTUAL PERFECTION. "The kind of perfection that Darwin sees in nature is a kind of temporary, fluctuating perfection that exists between different beings and between beings and their environment." https://lnkd.in/dWKSysJ View in LinkedIn