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LATERAL GENOMICS. "The wide spread of gene exchange and loss in the prokaryotic world has prompted the concept of ‘lateral genomics’ to the point of an outright denial of the relevance of phylogenetic trees for evolution." https://lnkd.in/dSemZpD View in LinkedIn

MORE EFFICIENT. "Code that's capable of altering its own instructions while it's still executing has been around for a while. Typically, it's done to reduce the instruction path length and improve performance, or to simply reduce repetitively similar code. But for all intents and purposes, there are no self-aware, self-improving AI systems today." https://lnkd.in/dp3ZKye View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE for this and next weekend contemplates lateral or horizontal gene transfer. This has been a fly in the ointment for traditional Mendelian genetics. Along with the idea of engulfment of entire organisms in an extreme form of symbiosis that separately gave rise to the mitochondria and the chloroplast, horizontal gene transfer has significantly mucked up tidy vertical inheritance trees. View in LinkedIn

VALUABLE TOOL. "Self-modifying code is a piece of software which achieves its goal by rewriting itself as it goes along. It is almost universally Considered Harmful now, but it used to be a neat trick in the toolbox of programmers of small or old computers." https://lnkd.in/dknBRJD View in LinkedIn

FROM DATA TO LAWS. "We have demonstrated the discovery of physical laws, from scratch, directly from experimentally captured data with the use of a computational search. We used the presented approach to detect nonlinear energy conservation laws, Newtonian force laws, geometric invariants, and system manifolds in various synthetic and physically implemented systems without prior knowledge about physics, kinematics, or geometry." https://lnkd.in/dJJ9HmD View in LinkedIn

"SELF-MODIFYING CODE allows for code injection attacks such as “Stack smashing”, “Format string attacks” and many others. In these attacks, the injected code is written to a program’s memory as input data to which control is subsequently transferred. The majority of attacks of this kind are prevented today at the hardware level by marking writable memory pages as non-executable." https://lnkd.in/dHTSZ_H View in LinkedIn

LIPSON'S EUREQUA was capable of "deriving Newton's second law of motion from a data set of positions and velocities of a double pendulum." Breathtaking achievement. Read again. https://lnkd.in/dHKcrCf View in LinkedIn

CODE VERSUS DATA. "Self-modifying code weakens the distinction between program code and data." https://lnkd.in/dHTSZ_H View in LinkedIn

PROFESSOR HOD LIPSON. "Beginning in 2009, he and his Cornell University graduate student Michael Schmidt developed software named Eureqa capable of deriving equations, mathematical relationships and laws of nature from sets of data." https://lnkd.in/dHKcrCf View in LinkedIn

FEW LIMITS. "Metalearning (or Meta-Learning) means learning the credit assignment method itself through self-modifying code. Metalearning may be the most ambitious but also the most rewarding goal of machine learning. There are few limits to what a good metalearner will learn." https://lnkd.in/dgfxJ_E View in LinkedIn