linkedin post 2019-03-31 03:44:12

Uncategorized
SO ENDS this two weekend noodling on the evolution of genetic and cultural complexity. For sure there are ancient creatures that have taken the path of outsourcing and streamlining their capacities, such as viruses, and thus appear deceptively simple. As usual, with nature there is rarely a single answer or a single path, but rather, a bewildering diversity of schemes that keep us forever fascinated with the flickering panoply of biology. View in LinkedIn
Read More

linkedin post 2019-04-02 06:35:35

Uncategorized
WIDELY USED. "Self-modifying code (SMC), in this paper, broadly refers to any program that loads, generates, or mutates code at runtime. It is widely used in many of the world’s critical software systems to support runtime code generation and optimization, dynamic loading and linking, OS boot loader, just-in-time compilation, binary translation, or dynamic code encryption and obfuscation." https://lnkd.in/dzAS74T View in LinkedIn
Read More

linkedin post 2019-04-05 04:13:42

Uncategorized
CONCEPTS WITHIN CODE. "Sarkar’s team is trying to develop software that analyzes not only text, but also the concepts expressed in code, regardless of the programming language it’s written in. Sarkar hopes this will enable PLINY to suggest even large chunks of code that can seamlessly integrate with what a developer has already written." (A DARPA venture). https://lnkd.in/d42vHmf View in LinkedIn
Read More

linkedin post 2019-04-04 05:13:38

Uncategorized
TEXT SEARCH PREDICTION. "IF YOU start typing something into Google, it tries to guess what you’re looking for. Type “Wi,” and it might suggest “Wikipedia.” PLINY will index massive amounts of opens source code gathered from the web to power a prediction engine that the researchers hope will be able to predict what coders are about to type." https://lnkd.in/d42vHmf View in LinkedIn
Read More

linkedin post 2019-04-04 05:11:20

Uncategorized
MOD 94 TERRAIN. "Malbolge was designed to be the most difficult language to program in. Not surprisingly, it uses self-modification as one of its tools to do this. After each command is run in Malbolge, it “encrypts” itself, changing to the same command mod 94 (each command is an encoded number). Many of the resulting commands do nothing, but some are functional." https://lnkd.in/dScXnfT View in LinkedIn
Read More