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"SIMPLICITY, it would seem, is a simple matter." (Raymond D. Havens, 1953). https://lnkd.in/d_4wdkS View in LinkedIn

OCCAM'S RAZOR. "Einstein proclaimed that we could discover true laws of nature by seeking those with the simplest mathematical formulation." https://lnkd.in/dP8cmJN View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE. Only 4 nucleotides to make DNA and RNA; only 64 unique codon triplets make amino acids; only 20 amino acids make proteins; only 102 elements make all the planets. Such a small toolkit. And yet our living world and our universe appear to know no limits. How is it that from such simplicity such profound complexity can arise? We will unpack each of the Dutch Dolls from smallest upwards to look at the small toolkit that can amplify so greatly. View in LinkedIn

"THINKING MACHINE. Imagine a software that can consider billions of possible hypotheses at scale...Instead of manually testing a hypothetical outcome against a dataset, SparkBeyond scans massive amounts of data and sifts it through a range of clarifiers – equations, definitions sentiments, locations – to build the best predictive model with a measurable business goal in mind. As the data changes the model adapts using adaptive machine learning algorithms." https://lnkd.in/dDgxbbq View in LinkedIn

RECOMBINANT CODE. "A startup in Israel is working on just such a concept. SparkBeyond, founded by Sagie Davidovich, is creating an engine that will comb all of the code in GitHub and then assemble parts as needed to create new application programming interfaces (APIs). A developer would just need to specify the sort of functions he or she wants and SparkBeyond would assemble it automatically. Call it recombinant code." https://lnkd.in/d5Pn4rH View in LinkedIn

RECOMBINANT COMPUTING. "Interoperability among a group of devices, applications, and services is typically predicated on those entities having some degree of prior knowledge of each another.” https://lnkd.in/dJu-E5i View in LinkedIn

FINITE SIZE RANGE. "Proteins exist in a finite range of sizes with a limited amino acid alphabet. We find that these restrictions set an intrinsic limit to designing protein interfaces that can bind selectively to target proteins, while remaining relatively repulsive to all other protein interfaces." https://lnkd.in/eTyvTV7 View in LinkedIn

MONKEYS, TYPEWRITERS AND SHAKESPEARE. "How many random variants of these 66 characters will compile? How many will link and execute at all, or execute without fatal errors? Assuming that our program has already been written, what is the chance of evolving it into another, more complex program that will compile, link, execute and produce meaningful output?" https://lnkd.in/dZqxxrU View in LinkedIn

C LANGUAGE COMBINATIONS. "To get a feel for this number, it is estimated that there are about 10^80 subatomic particles in the known universe, so there are as many 66-character combinations in our example as there are subatomic particles in 10 trillion universes. There are about 4 x 10^17 seconds in the history of the universe, assuming that the universe is 13 billion years old." https://lnkd.in/dZqxxrU View in LinkedIn

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