Tag: software
What’s Driving Darwin’s Driverless Car?
What drives natural selection? Evolutionary forces. What are evolutionary forces? They’re what drive natural selection.
In Resolving Darwin’s Doubt, These Cambrian Fossils Are No Help
This is hierarchical organization, none of which is seen in the Precambrian layers beneath.
The Fantasy of Living Forever in a Computer
If eternal life is attainable, it will be found by working on one’s soul in faith, not by developing ever-more-advanced AI computers.
Diatoms and the Mystery of Morphogenesis
From code to art: how does a linear set of instructions result in a beautifully crafted pattern? Diatoms do it, and scientists are struggling to figure out how.
Orphan Proteins Spell Trouble for AlphaFold 2
Proteins are indispensable molecular biological workhorses that come in thousands of different shapes and sizes.