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PLATFORMS OVERCOME LINGUISTICS. "There are a couple of ways in which code in languages can interact directly. As long as the data being passed between the code is in the right format, at the bits and bytes level, then there is no reason why different languages can't interact. This approach is used in traditional windows DLL development. Even on different platforms, if you can get the format correct (look at big/little endian if interested) it will work as long as your linker (not compiler) knows how to join code together." https://lnkd.in/dQCMwwX 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

BOOSTING EVOLVABILITY IN HOSTS. "We demonstrated that coevolution promotes complexity and dissected how it does so. Instead of simple escalation, we found that a diversity of coevolving lineages must arise for coevolution to drive complex traits. Surprisingly, coevolution had a second effect; it promoted the evolution of more evolvable hosts." (In silico modeling). https://lnkd.in/dUUFYJe View in LinkedIn

NICHE CONSTRUCTION. "The phenomenon of a species creating an important aspect of its environment and stably transmitting this environment across generations, known as niche construction, is a widespread form of epigenetic transmission. Niche construction includes gene–environment coevolution, because a genetically induced environmental regularity becomes the basis for genetic selection, and gene mutations that give rise to novel niche elements will survive if they are fitness-enhancing for their constructors." http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/366/1566/878 View in LinkedIn

DEEP INTERCONNECTEDNESS. "Clearly, a host population cannot evolve in response to selection pressure from one pathogen population without affecting the selection pressures imposed by other pathogens, and a pathogen population cannot evolve in response to selection pressure from one host population without affecting the selection pressures imposed by other host populations." https://lnkd.in/d3-W8NW View in LinkedIn

SOCIAL COEVOLUTION. "Organisms can directly transmit environmental artifacts to the next generation, in the form of such constructs as beaver dams, bee hives and even social structures (e.g. mating and hunting practices)." https://lnkd.in/dtbdtdb View in LinkedIn

HOST SWITCHING. "Although empirical support for this comes from brood parasites rather than pathogens, many viruses can exploit different host cell receptors, and this can be associated with host switching, thereby demonstrating a potential for co-evolution involving multiple host species. But only certain pathogens may be capable of infecting multiple hosts; for example, viruses that use receptors conserved across different host taxa tend to have broader host ranges." https://lnkd.in/d3-W8NW View in LinkedIn