Category: Uncategorized

THREE HOSTS. "How complex life cycles of parasites are maintained is still a fascinating and unresolved topic. Complex life cycles using three host species, free-living stages, asexual and sexual reproduction are widespread in parasitic helminths." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2005.00895.x/full View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend and ends this weekend on the theme of complex life cycles. Chance experimentation has created an enormous diversity of lifestyles in nature some of which have been advantageous, others have been a disaster, leading down the path to extinction. But in true form, nature works by creating the maximum number of options. And probably none are more glorious to behold than those of parasites and tiny marine creatures. View in LinkedIn

"READ THE WEB" is a research project that attempts to create a computer system that learns over time to read the web. So far, NELL has accumulated over 50 million candidate beliefs by reading the web, and it is considering these at different levels of confidence. NELL has high confidence in 2,708,739 of these beliefs — these are displayed on this website. It is not perfect, but NELL is learning." http://rtw.ml.cmu.edu/rtw/ View in LinkedIn

PREDICTION. "Can computers learn to read? We think so." http://rtw.ml.cmu.edu/rtw/ View in LinkedIn

WHAT IF THE WEB WAKES UP? This is the key question. See this talk on the subject. https://lnkd.in/d8P3zq7 View in LinkedIn

NEW PERSPECTIVE. "It is more profitable to consider developmental instars and metamorphoses in terms of their adaptive value." http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/365/1540/631.short View in LinkedIn

"AN EMERGENT ALGORITHM is an algorithm that exhibits emergent behavior. In essence an emergent algorithm implements a set of simple building block behaviors that when combined exhibit more complex behaviors." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergent_algorithm View in LinkedIn

INADEQUACIES OF OLD IDEAS. "The more recent analyses of Hall (1998) and Minelli (2009), has demonstrated how inadequately either hypothesis represents the diversity of evolutionary changes in the ontogenies of different metazoan lineages." http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/365/1540/631.short View in LinkedIn

AUTONOMOUS. "An interesting idea is internal emergence that allows a system to take advantage of the emergent patterns without external intervention. To achieve this, self-modification and self-reflection are required." http://eprints.aston.ac.uk/20778/1/Emergence_in_genetic_programming.pdf View in LinkedIn

OLD COMPLEX LIFESTYLE HYPOTHESES. "Traditional interpretations of the origin and evolution of complex life cycles have been dominated by two contrasting scenarios, the recapitulationist and the intercalary, traditionally associated with the names of Ernst Haeckel and Walter Garstang, respectively." http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/365/1540/631.short View in LinkedIn