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INPUTS AND OUTPUTS. "Metabolism is the network of biochemical reactions that transforms available resources (“inputs”) into energy currency and building blocks (“outputs”). Different organisms have different assortments of metabolic pathways and input/output requirements, reflecting their adaptation to specific environments, and to specific strategies for reproduction and survival." https://lnkd.in/dUHqnYU View in LinkedIn

CONSTANTLY IMPROVING CODE. Kory Becker from Primary Objects has been experimenting with AIs capable of writing their own computer programs. The AIs Kory is using are called genetic algorithms. They function much the same as biological evolution, in that the programs they write get better and better with each generation." https://lnkd.in/dk8PgiX View in LinkedIn

ACCIDENTS OR ARCHETYPES? "Is the evolution of metabolism subject to general principles, beyond the unpredictable accumulation of multiple historical accidents? Here we ask whether, beneath the intricate wiring of these networks, it is possible to discern signatures of optimal (i.e., shortest and maximally efficient) pathway architectures." https://lnkd.in/dUHqnYU View in LinkedIn

HELLO WORLD is now on tee shirts. I was in a bed and breakfast in Cambridge recently and some conference attendees were wearing Hello World tee shirts. I had to smile at the cryptic reference. View in LinkedIn

BEYOND THE CLUSTER. "The clustering of natural products biosynthetic pathway genes is an obvious organizational feature. However, on closer examination, many of those clusters and their gene products appear to have further pathway connections that lie outside the cluster but nevertheless are coordinatedly linked in the biosynthesis process." https://lnkd.in/dEpJBda View in LinkedIn

ANY COMPUTATIONAL PROBLEM. "Then, in came Brainfu*k, a programming language that consists of a simplified set of only eight single-byte instructions which can theoretically solve any computational problem in the universe, and things were on track yet again." https://lnkd.in/d5enhBP View in LinkedIn

GENETIC ALGORITHMS BECOME PROGRAMMERS. "The fitness test for a generation should not be if it can compile something, but if what it compiles can compile something (the point being to make the program something like twistable DNA)" https://lnkd.in/d6n97-G View in LinkedIn

COMPLEX CODE. "I believe there is great potential behind the combination of evolutionary algorithms and self-programming software. Much like the evolution of single-celled bacteria into complex forms of life, I’d still like to believe that software can be transformed via evolutionary techniques into much more complicated byproducts." https://lnkd.in/d4FtxBC View in LinkedIn

QUESTIONS. "What if one of the programs generated code similar to the hard-drive format command signature? Or a BIOS overwrite command? Or maybe the AI generates a program with an infinite loop, accessing a network." https://lnkd.in/d4FtxBC View in LinkedIn

SPEED. "When we wanted the speed increase from code compression, we gave the AI some additional legos (programming instructions). Likewise, if we want the AI to write programs than can access the computer’s file system or communicate over the Internet, we’re going to need new instructions." https://lnkd.in/d4FtxBC View in LinkedIn