Life is, in some ways, less "messy" than binary. At least less fragile. DNA cannot encode absolute offsets, for example. Closer to associative memory.
In any case, we want to reach useful solutions quickly. Life doesn't evolve at a scale commensurate with human patience, despite having vastly more parallelism and memory. So we need to design systems more efficient, and perhaps more specialized, than life. On Sep 4, 2013 5:37 PM, "Casey Ransberger" <[email protected]> wrote: > John, you're right. I have seen raw binary used as DNA and I left that > out. This could be my own prejudice, but it seems like a messy way to do > things. I suppose I want to limit what the animal can do by constraining it > to some set of "safe" primitives. Maybe that's a silly thing to worry > about, though. If we're going to grow software, I suppose maybe I should > expect the process to be as messy as life is:) > > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:06 PM, John Carlson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I meant to say you could perform and record operations while the program >> was running. >> >> I think people have missed machine language as "syntaxless." >> On Sep 4, 2013 4:17 PM, "John Carlson" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Sep 3, 2013 8:25 PM, "Casey Ransberger" <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > It yields a kind of "syntaxlessness" that's interesting. >>> >>> Our TWB/TE language was mostly syntaxless. Instead, you performed >>> operations on desktop objects that were recorded (like AppleScript, but >>> with an iconic language). You could even record while the program was >>> running. We had a tiny bit of syntax in our predicates, stuff like range >>> and set notation. >>> >>> Can anyone describe Minecraft's syntax and semantics? >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> fonc mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >> >> > > > -- > CALIFORNIA > H U M A N > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > >
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