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DERIVATIVE KNOWLEDGE. "A scientist let a computer program a chip, using natural selection. The outcome was an extremely efficient chip, the inner workings of which were extremely difficult to understand." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn

NEURAL NETWORKS. "We have to aggressively avoid interconnections and side effects (this is taken to an extreme in functional programming, where no side effects are allowed). We also struggle with parallel programming, such that very few people actually know how to do it well. Nature doesn't give a shit about these limitations. The brain is a massively parallel pile of spaghetti code." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn

SPAGHETTI CODE. "In software, we call code that has too many interconnections "spaghetti code", and it's notorious for quickly exceeding the ability for humans to reason about it." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn

REDUCTIVE THINKING. "Our finite intelligence requires human engineers to use a divide and conquer approach to problem solving, where we break down problems into smaller problems that we can understand." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn

LIMITS OF HUMAN SMARTS. -- "it is the fundamental tenet of science that nothing is impossible to understand."" "-- "That's nonsense. It's a fervent hope that nothing is impossible to understand, we have no choice but to operate as if this were true, but it's a fact that human intelligence has finite limits. I'm a computer scientist: those limits are a gating factor in this industry." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn

AN ORDERLY WORLD VIEW was driven by crystallography. “Why water boils at 100ºC and methane at -161ºC; why blood is red and grass is green; why diamond is hard and wax is soft; why graphite writes on paper and silk is strong; why glaciers flow and iron gets hard when you hammer it; how muscles contract; how sunlight makes plants grow and how living organisms have been able to evolve into ever more complex forms…? The answers to all these problems have come from structural analysis.” (Max Perutz) https://lnkd.in/dbrsipp View in LinkedIn

PROGRESS TOWARDS PERFECTION. "As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection." (Darwin). https://lnkd.in/dWKSysJ View in LinkedIn

SELECTIVE magical thinking has bred a mountain of erroneous publications whose primary motivation is to see the hand of god in nature. https://lnkd.in/dffiSnf View in LinkedIn

BREAK WITH THE PAST. "Perfection and progress were abstractions that had no place in Darwin's pragmatic and relativistic scheme." Yet there were many nods towards the older (and religious) viewpoint. https://lnkd.in/dqgy8Hd View in LinkedIn

MAGICAL THINKING. "Fabicconi numbers in nature, selective and seductive.” https://lnkd.in/dHb3uBz View in LinkedIn