Month: September 2022

LINGUISTIC IMPRINT. "There are hundreds of programming languages, but they are not just separate mechanisms for more of the same — each language leaves an imprint in technological evolution and now scientists have learned how to track that down." https://lnkd.in/dY89BaB View in LinkedIn

SEMANTICS CAN BE DANGEROUS. As can analogies. We will encounter both in the roads ahead. But they can also be playful, ironic, whimsical and inspirational. You decide what works for you. This is not a court of law, but a colorful melting pot of marvelous ideas and concepts. View in LinkedIn

REMEMBER JUNK DNA? That hard-to-explain and rather significant chunk of non-coding DNA in humans and other creatures? Remember mutations, or genetic errors? All relevant to computer code. Remember jumping genes and imported DNA? View in LinkedIn

ORPHAN COMPUTER CODE. "Dead or unreachable code is code that will never be executed. It manifests itself as variables that are declared but never used, functions that are never called, or code that is skipped because of a branch. Since the dead code is not executed, it is an error, often a logic error. Dead code is created by cavalier programmers. An easy way to create dead code is by use of a goto statement and labels." https://lnkd.in/d9rVas9 View in LinkedIn

HARD TO FIND. "Note that very few compilers will identify orphan code." https://lnkd.in/d9rVas9 View in LinkedIn

ACCIDENTAL HYBRIDS. "As virtual spaces become networked and very different potentialities of use collide or become intentionally conjoined, hybrid functionalities will be both intentionally and unintentionally spawned." https://lnkd.in/dCVHq5S View in LinkedIn

THE GAME OF LIFE was invented by the mathematical genius and rare polymath, John Conway, it became a cult following, and spawned the first code that could create a copy of itself, the replicator. View in LinkedIn

COMPLEXITY FROM SIMPLICITY. "The Game of Life, created in the 1970s by mathematician John Conway has garnered a cult following. It consists of an infinite grid of square cells that can either be live or dead. It might not sound like much but such humble beginnings can give rise to a zoo of astoundingly complex patterns and processes, which now include self-replicating organisms." https://lnkd.in/d-ckTpQ View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE deals with plants ability to detect photoperiods and circadian clocks that are driven by photoperiods. The ability for clocks to respond to seasons and to day time is critical for the coordination of flowering and reproduction for each plant species; without a coordinated response, reproduction would quickly fail, and all plants in a species must be on the same schedule. The cues and molecular mechanisms for these plant clocks are beginning to be successfully unravelled. View in LinkedIn

THE PLANT CLOCK. "In order to locate the time of year accurately, a timekeeping mechanism operates with precision as part of the plant’s photoperiodic sensing mechanism in a way that is insensitive to less predictable variations in the environment such as temperature." https://lnkd.in/d_f7kfY View in LinkedIn