[FRIAM] Robert Rosen

[Glen E. P. Ropella]

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What's your point?  Oh let me guess.  The rest of us are all idiots and
this has all been solved already?

Marcus G. Daniels on 01/03/2008 08:40 PM:
> Here's a paper by Ken Thompson where he describes a regular expression 
> implementation based on object code generated on-the-fly for the IBM 
> 7094.  The 7094 was a 60's mainframe had instructions designed for 
> self-modifying code.   (Lisp predates that..)
> 
> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=363347.363387
> 
> Also note that ~8% of human DNA is highly similar to retroviruses -- 
> we're slowly being rewritten from the outside.
> 
>  http://genomebiology.com/2001/2/6/reviews/1017. 
> 
> ...and even by each other..
> 
> http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T3B-47HPGPW-4&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=937dc8c7b72003e57bbd2971e7ae71be

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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief
that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell

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