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FAST-FORWARD. “Google claims its quantum computer can do the impossible in 200 seconds.” https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/23/tech/google-quantum-supremacy-scn/index.html View in LinkedIn

SELF-PROGRAMMING. “The Neural Turing Machine will combine the best of number-crunching with the human-like adaptability of neural networks – so it can invent its own programs.” https://lnkd.in/dxPNmRP View in LinkedIn

“GOOGLE DEEPMIND is a British artificial intelligence company founded in 2010 as DeepMind Technologies. It was renamed when it was acquired by Google in 2014. The company has created a neural network that learns how to play video games in a similar fashion to humans, as well as a neural network that may be able to access an external memory like a conventional Turing machine, resulting in a computer that appears to possibly mimic the short-term memory of the human brain.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_DeepMind View in LinkedIn

COMPLEX OVARY. “The gynoecium is a particularly complicated plant organ that is partitioned into a number of highly specialized tissues within which the female gametophytes (ovules) are produced.” http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959437X16301903 View in LinkedIn

AN OVARY FROM FUSED LEAVES. “The female reproductive organ of flowering plants (angiosperms) is called the gynoecium and develops in the middle of the flower as congenitally fused carpels, which have evolved from leaves. After fertilisation, the gynoecium develops into a fruit that nurtures and protects the seeds inside until their dispersal at maturity.“ http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959437X16301903 View in LinkedIn

HEART OF AN ECOSYSTEM. “Diversification of flowers and the resulting fruit spurred coevolutionary change in pollinators and dispersers, with subsequent wide-ranging effects on herbivores, mycorrhizae, and other interacting organisms.” http://www.genetics.org/content/202/4/1255 View in LinkedIn

FLOWER SUCCESS. “Flowering plants (angiosperms), with reproductive security and speed conferred by the flower, replaced other seed plants in most ecosystems.” http://www.genetics.org/content/202/4/1255 View in LinkedIn

THE FLOWER IMPACTED THE PLANET. “The origin of the flower during the late Jurassic to early Cretaceous eras (most recent estimates are between 150 and 190 MYA) was a key evolutionary innovation that profoundly altered the Earth’s biota.” https://lnkd.in/dm8pYAd View in LinkedIn

REPRODUCTION IN FLOWERING PLANTS, a video by Larry Jensen. An outstanding video with brilliant graphics. A must-watch. https://youtu.be/0UEpq1W9C_E View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE considers the evolution of the carpel, the part of flowering plants that is the female flower ovary, the gnoeceium, the heart of reproduction in flowering plants. This single structure is credited with participating in creating ecosystems with other species and transforming the biota of planet Earth. View in LinkedIn