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THE 500 MILE EMAIL is a cute story about a perplexing problem caused by programmer error. http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html View in LinkedIn

BUILT-IN BUG PATHS. "It's important to add that using those defects (instead of designing around them like humans do) can lead to improper work quite easily, depending on stability of the power supply, temperature or magnetic field." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn

MYR PROCESSOR YEARS. "Sure, if you write a mutation algorithm that silently runs for a few million processor-years, sure you won't understand the result... but that's a fault of your programming." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn

WORKAROUNDS. "There are other electrical things going on (capacitance, crosstalk, etc) in chips that we normally design around." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn

DEDUCTIVE THINKING. "Any algorithm whose result you cannot predict or understand was poorly coded, even with 'random' evolution bits. It comes down to reporting and logging; a genetic algorithm should report when it gets a certain good result from a mutation, and you should log enough of these mutations to analyze trends. At the end you should know how each piece of the computer generated architecture evolved." https://lnkd.in/dEAsbig View in LinkedIn

ENZYMATIC SALTATIONS. "Enzymes are erroneously considered exquisitely precise and efficient molecular catalysts. Natural enzymes are also evolvable: in other words, they can migrate through mutational trajectories to arrive at alternative catalytic activities, sometimes in unexpected saltatory fashion." https://lnkd.in/d3RnrBP View in LinkedIn

AWE AT REMARKABLE COMPLEXITY. "Photosynthesis: a thermodynamic perfection of nature." (1953). https://lnkd.in/dQ_h8_c View in LinkedIn

"PROTEIN CRYSTALS have been found to be more perfect as measured by their X-ray reflection rocking widths using collimated synchrotron radiation. The use of this parameter to assess the perfection of crystals grown by new methods, or in new environments such as microgravity, is important. Irradiation of protein crystals with X-ray almost invariably leads to a loss of perfection." (1988). https://lnkd.in/d5Vshm5 View in LinkedIn

COMMERCIAL QUEST. "We present a new strategy for making silica colloidal crystal films with a sufficiently high level of structural perfection and optical quality to make it competitive as a practical route to photonic crystal optical components." https://lnkd.in/dAnTMPY View in LinkedIn

MODERN CRYSTAL QUEST. "It has been emphasized in the literature that the protein crystal perfection increases in microgravity conditions." (NASA space station experiment). https://lnkd.in/daH7g7g View in LinkedIn