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BUGS, MUTATIONS, ERRORS. "All software contains bugs, that is a given. There is an established body of evidence out there to support the notion that producing error-free software is an impossibility." https://lnkd.in/e6GQx2z View in LinkedIn

COMPUTER VIRUSES, or bugs, represent a very interesting topic. In genetics, errors or mutations, are the sources of genetic innovation, the drivers of evolution, and through selective pressures acting on the diverse bell-curve of possibilities, drives adaptation to new niches and fitter organisms. How do code errors function in the computing ecosystem? View in LinkedIn

INSPIRATION FOR VENUS. "Dewdney proposed a game called "Core Wars", in which hackers create computer programs that battle for control of a computer's "core" memory. Since computer programs are just patterns of information, a successful program in core wars is one that replicates its pattern within the memory, so that eventually most of the memory contains its pattern rather than that of the competing program." https://lnkd.in/esA_k7j View in LinkedIn

RASMUSSEN'S VENUS. "In VENUS, genetically-programmed digital organisms occupy memory, and each block of memory has a specific "resource value" to it--it can vary from a desert (very few resources) to a jungle (many resources); this resource value is added at a steady state, analogous to an external energy source such as sunlight. These digital organisms compete for this memory space and use it for energy, and to go on "living" they must have enough resources to sustain themselves and their growth." https://lnkd.in/etiQ6T7 View in LinkedIn

LOVING MACHINES. Rasmussen "sees us inventing machines that can "love more deeply" than may be humanly possible." https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

NOT THE END-GAME. "[W]e as humans are naive if we believe that we are the end product of evolution. I'm sure we are not." (Steen Rasmussen). https://lnkd.in/dwADMWc View in LinkedIn

INTERESTING VIEW. Steen Rasmussen on video. https://lnkd.in/dTvYrn4 View in LinkedIn

"STEEN RASMUSSEN. The main scientific effort of Steen Rasmussen over the last ten years has been to explore, understand and construct a transition from nonliving to living materials. He became a scientific team leader in 2002 at Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, and he has since held research leadership positions at the Santa Fe Institute, University of Copenhagen and University of Southern Denmark." https://lnkd.in/dEYN9m2 View in LinkedIn

CURRENT STATUS. Work continues on Conway’s Game of Life. A sampling of the imaginative projects undertaken, https://lnkd.in/dJ89ZU9 View in LinkedIn

IRISH POTATO FAMINE. "The basic problem with a monoculture is that it's all vulnerable to the same attack. The Irish Potato Famine of 1845--9 is perhaps the most famous monoculture-related disaster. The Irish planted only one variety of potato, and the genetically identical potatoes succumbed to a rot caused by Phytophthora infestans." https://lnkd.in/dvZvf8T View in LinkedIn