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MACHINE LEARNING. "The Pentagon is particularly interested in this game. Through DARPA, its hoping to develop a computer that can teach itself. Ultimately, it wants to create machines that are able to perform a number of complex tasks, like unsupervised learning, vision, planning, and statistical model selection. https://lnkd.in/dp3ZKye View in LinkedIn

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

PAUSE A MOMENT. "The human brain and the internet are converging." https://lnkd.in/dASsZrK View in LinkedIn

DIMINISHING IMPULSE CONTROL. "The time between a person’s need and the ability to satisfy it through the web is shrinking." https://lnkd.in/dASsZrK View in LinkedIn

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

HEATED DEBATE. "A computational pipeline that automatically produced a comprehensive ‘Tree of Life’ (TOL) from a concatenated sequence alignment of universal proteins was hailed as a major advance of phylogenomics, only to be immediately debunked as a “tree of 1%”, i.e. one that (at best) accurately reflects the evolutionary history of only a small fraction of microbial genes." https://lnkd.in/dSemZpD View in LinkedIn

TREE THINKING DEBATE. "The concept of ‘lateral genomics’...posits that the dominant process in microbial evolution is gene exchange between organisms rather than vertical descent along a tree. In its extreme form, lateral genomics denies the relevance of tree-like evolution and “tree thinking” in biology altogether." https://lnkd.in/dSemZpD View in LinkedIn

HGT AS EVOLVABLE. "Given the indispensability of HGT for the survival of microbial populations, a plausible hypothesis seems to be that HGT is evolvable, i.e. is an adaptive, selectable trait." (HGT = horizontal gene transfer). https://lnkd.in/dSemZpD View in LinkedIn

CURIOUS PARADOX. "Similar analyses appear to indicate that, in addition to donating hundreds of genes to the emerging eukaryotic lineage, mitochondrial endosymbiosis severely curtailed HGT." (HGT = horizontal gene transfer). https://lnkd.in/dSemZpD View in LinkedIn

ENZYMATIC FITNESS. "As the network grows, gain of a single enzyme is increasingly likely to provide access to a new nutrient leading to increased fitness." https://lnkd.in/dSemZpD View in LinkedIn