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ENZYME PERFECTION. "Perfection in enzyme catalysis. During the last 10(9) years the structures of biological macromolecules have been refined and improved so as to optimize the functioning of the organisms that use them." (1976). https://lnkd.in/dv8GHqY View in LinkedIn

ENZYMATIC SALTATIONS. "Enzymes are erroneously considered exquisitely precise and efficient molecular catalysts. Natural enzymes are also evolvable: in other words, they can migrate through mutational trajectories to arrive at alternative catalytic activities, sometimes in unexpected saltatory fashion." https://lnkd.in/d3RnrBP View in LinkedIn

AWE AT REMARKABLE COMPLEXITY. "Photosynthesis: a thermodynamic perfection of nature." (1953). https://lnkd.in/dQ_h8_c View in LinkedIn

"PROTEIN CRYSTALS have been found to be more perfect as measured by their X-ray reflection rocking widths using collimated synchrotron radiation. The use of this parameter to assess the perfection of crystals grown by new methods, or in new environments such as microgravity, is important. Irradiation of protein crystals with X-ray almost invariably leads to a loss of perfection." (1988). https://lnkd.in/d5Vshm5 View in LinkedIn

COMMERCIAL QUEST. "We present a new strategy for making silica colloidal crystal films with a sufficiently high level of structural perfection and optical quality to make it competitive as a practical route to photonic crystal optical components." https://lnkd.in/dAnTMPY View in LinkedIn

AI TEMPER TANTRUM. "Oh man. We've done it. We've finally forced an AI to ragequit." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn

GENETIC PROGRAMMING. "My 'ant colony' produced ants that got progressively better at finishing the first 80% of the maze, but the maze got more difficult towards the end, and as things got more difficult, they got stuck - so they would get faster and faster at getting 80% of the way there and then, unable to figure out the next bit, just hide to maximize the 'points' my system would grant them, and their chances of survival - how awesome is that! - my own (extremely basic) computer system outsmarted me." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn

EXAPTATION "is a term used in evolutionary biology to describe a trait that has been co-opted for a use other than the one for which natural selection has built it." Darwin first conceived of the idea. http://www.livescience.com/39688-exaptation.html View in LinkedIn

BACKDOOR. "Unused gates still present parasitic loading. It can affect timing and therefore the output waveforms." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn

"EVOLVING COMPUTER CHIPS is a huge part of creating a good AI. There are already several companies working with this technology. When it was first worked up it created such efficient chips that they couldn't be replicated, as they made use of microscopic differences and scratches on the chip itself." The adaptive genetic toolkit of exaptation. Nice. https://lnkd.in/evQuB2z View in LinkedIn