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SO ENDS this two weekend noodling on the evolution of genetic and cultural complexity. For sure there are ancient creatures that have taken the path of outsourcing and streamlining their capacities, such as viruses, and thus appear deceptively simple. As usual, with nature there is rarely a single answer or a single path, but rather, a bewildering diversity of schemes that keep us forever fascinated with the flickering panoply of biology. View in LinkedIn

"SELF-MODIFYING CODE is used to build worms and viruses." https://lnkd.in/dcT_V2k View in LinkedIn

IS THE INFO TECH REVOLUTION not just an extension of our biological evolution and the increasing global information is a consequence of our genetics? View in LinkedIn

WIDELY USED. "Self-modifying code (SMC), in this paper, broadly refers to any program that loads, generates, or mutates code at runtime. It is widely used in many of the world’s critical software systems to support runtime code generation and optimization, dynamic loading and linking, OS boot loader, just-in-time compilation, binary translation, or dynamic code encryption and obfuscation." https://lnkd.in/dzAS74T View in LinkedIn

FASTER CHANGE. "Cultural evolution is expected to be faster than biological evolution because of its Lamarckian nature, and because cultural information is transmitted through different routes than genetic information." https://lnkd.in/du2rR_7 View in LinkedIn

CONCEPTS WITHIN CODE. "Sarkar’s team is trying to develop software that analyzes not only text, but also the concepts expressed in code, regardless of the programming language it’s written in. Sarkar hopes this will enable PLINY to suggest even large chunks of code that can seamlessly integrate with what a developer has already written." (A DARPA venture). https://lnkd.in/d42vHmf View in LinkedIn

PAUSE A MOMENT. "The human brain and the internet are converging." https://lnkd.in/dASsZrK View in LinkedIn

DIMINISHING IMPULSE CONTROL. "The time between a person’s need and the ability to satisfy it through the web is shrinking." https://lnkd.in/dASsZrK View in LinkedIn

TEXT SEARCH PREDICTION. "IF YOU start typing something into Google, it tries to guess what you’re looking for. Type “Wi,” and it might suggest “Wikipedia.” PLINY will index massive amounts of opens source code gathered from the web to power a prediction engine that the researchers hope will be able to predict what coders are about to type." https://lnkd.in/d42vHmf View in LinkedIn

MOD 94 TERRAIN. "Malbolge was designed to be the most difficult language to program in. Not surprisingly, it uses self-modification as one of its tools to do this. After each command is run in Malbolge, it “encrypts” itself, changing to the same command mod 94 (each command is an encoded number). Many of the resulting commands do nothing, but some are functional." https://lnkd.in/dScXnfT View in LinkedIn