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"IF IFS and ands were pots and pans, the world would be a kitchen." View in LinkedIn

ONLY 20 AMINO ACIDS MAKE PROTEINS. "There are 22 standard amino acids, but only 21 are found in eukaryotes. Of the 22, 20 are directly encoded by the universal genetic code. Humans can synthesize 11 of these 20 from each other or from other molecules of intermediary metabolism. The other 9 must be consumed in the diet." https://lnkd.in/eeMC3wc View in LinkedIn

CODE DATABASE. "If computers can rewrite code, however, the game potentially changes. Suppose, for instance, that someone created a database that indexed all known lines of code in world and then could combine them in a specified way to perform a desired function without the input of a human at all." https://lnkd.in/da9p2nE View in LinkedIn

TOTAL BITS. "So that is a total information of 4,392,322,500 bits including the epigenome. In ASCII code, that would be 627,474,642 MB (megabytes). https://lnkd.in/eq-g674 View in LinkedIn

OOPS. "If machines become self-aware and start writing their own code, they could theoretically take control of the brain. Worse, the Internet itself could “wake up” and start controlling, well, just about everything." https://lnkd.in/da9p2nE View in LinkedIn

AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS. "Computer vision, the combination of deep learning and reinforcement learning, natural language interfaces, and question-answering systems are all building blocks to make a physical system autonomous and interactive. Building these autonomous systems today is as much about integrating these methods as inventing new ones." https://lnkd.in/d4R2gad View in LinkedIn

"MACHINE INTELLIGENCE in the virtual world. This time we’re seeing it in the physical world, in the many flavors of autonomous systems: self-driving cars, autopilot drones, robots that can perform dynamic tasks without every action being hard coded. It’s still very early days—most of these systems are just barely useful, though we expect that to change quickly." https://lnkd.in/d4R2gad View in LinkedIn

"DATA TO ACTIONS. Our learning machine doesn’t just recognize one type of input, it comprehends relationships between all inputs. With an insatiable thirst for data, the AI-powered research engine distills potent insights from an ocean of information so that you can make the best–informed decisions possible. We examine data from every angle. We bombard it with hypotheses. We tweak it on every dimension. We squeeze out the most relevant insights. Often ones you didn’t know existed." https://lnkd.in/dDgxbbq View in LinkedIn

SEEING PATTERNS in huge data sets and applying hypotheses to yield better predictions. Robot scientists with big data. https://lnkd.in/dDgxbbq View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this first of two weekends contemplating the simplicity that underlies the complexity in nature. From genes to proteins, this seems to be the rule. From the small number of elements to the vast number of compounds, this again holds true. It is intuitive that this is how nature must be organized. But the big jumps come when the whole is greater than the sum of the parts (Euclid) through the phenomena of emergence. View in LinkedIn