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EMERGENT TRAITS. "In the past, the approach has been to start with high-level intelligence and reproduce that in a computer. This is the opposite. We're showing how complex traits like memory can be built from the bottom up, from things that are really very simple." https://lnkd.in/dQNwFn2 View in LinkedIn

ADAPTED FOR ELECTRONIC MICROENVIRONMENT. "It seems that evolution had not merely selected the best code for the task, it had also advocated those programs which took advantage of the electromagnetic quirks of that specific microchip environment." https://lnkd.in/e5p4fXs View in LinkedIn

RUDIMENTARY CODE MEMORY. "Computer-simulated life forms which reproduce themselves inside their electronic world have evolved to produce basic intelligence. After thousands more generations, the Avidians had evolved something more impressive: a rudimentary memory. The environment sets up selective pressures so organisms are forced to come up with some kind of memory use - which is in fact what they do." https://lnkd.in/dQNwFn2 View in LinkedIn

PERPLEXING. "Dr. Thompson peered inside his perfect offspring to gain insight into its methods, but what he found inside was baffling. The plucky chip was utilizing only thirty-seven of its one hundred logic gates, and most of them were arranged in a curious collection of feedback loops." https://lnkd.in/e5p4fXs View in LinkedIn

POLY-FUNCTIONAL DNA. "Multiple Overlapping Genetic Codes Profoundly Reduce the Probability of Beneficial Mutation. There is growing evidence that much of the DNA in higher genomes is poly-functional, with the same nucleotide contributing to more than one type of code. Such poly-functional DNA should logically be multiply-constrained in terms of the probability of sequence improvement via random mutation." https://lnkd.in/d2ZFuRp View in LinkedIn

INFORMATION. "Communication in the case of software is 'exchanging information', or data. And it doesn't matter what language that process is in, as long as the means of exchanging data is understood by both." https://lnkd.in/dAzXuzv View in LinkedIn

LANGUAGE AGNOSTIC. "Software, no matter what language it is in, ends up being executed directly or indirectly by the processor. So it's very important to understand that no matter the level of the programming language, it all ends up on the processor dye, and it ends up doing nothing but manipulating data." https://lnkd.in/dAzXuzv View in LinkedIn

VOLTAGE LEVELS. "At the very basic level, plain text code eventually translates to 0's and 1's. These 0's and 1's represent low and high voltage levels. At this point, voltage levels control various circuits." http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3043048/how-does-software-code-actually-communicate-with-hardware View in LinkedIn

CONTEMPORARY REMINDER. “A new flaw has been discovered in the computer system for the Boeing 737 Max that could push the plane downward, according to two sources familiar with the testing, an issue that is expected to further delay the aircraft's return to service.” https://lnkd.in/d5ytNit View in LinkedIn

DIGITAL INFORMATION ROOT. "Software is stored in the hardware as magnetic domains on the hard drive or floppy disc, or as low and high voltages in computer chips. When you type on a keyboard, each character is converted into an electrical series of 0's and 1's which are then stored as low and high voltages in the computer chips called RAM." https://lnkd.in/d-JGnVK View in LinkedIn