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A group of articles at the intersection of the disciplines of Information Theory and (Molecular) Biology. Including some articles on tangential subjects like complexity, dynamic system theory, cybernetics, evolution, quantum information theory, artificial life, computer science, and biophysics which relate to these topics.

🔖 A New Factor in Evolution by James Mark Baldwin | The American Naturalist: Vol 30, No 354
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
In several recent publications I have developed, from different points of view, some considerations which tend to bring out a certain influence at …
👓 Adaptable lizards illustrate key evolutionary process proposed a century ago | Science Daily
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
The 'Baldwin effect' has now been demonstrated at the genetic level in a population of dark-colored lizards adapted to live on a lava flow in the …
🔖 CNS*2018 Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
Methods originally developed in Information Theory have found wide applicability in computational neuroscience. Beyond these original methods there …
🔖 Proceedings for ALIFE 2018: The 2018 Conference on Artificial Life
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
This volume presents the proceedings of ALIFE 2018, the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life, held July 23rd-27th. It took place in Tokyo, Japan …
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
"I have long been a fan of David Christian. In Origin Story, he elegantly weaves evidence and insights from many scientific and historical …
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ðŸ”– [1801.06022] Reconstruction Codes for DNA Sequences with Uniform Tandem-Duplication Errors | arXiv
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
DNA as a data storage medium has several advantages, including far greater data density compared to electronic media. We propose that schemes for …
ðŸ”– Nonlinear Dynamics 1 & 2: Geometry of Chaos by Predrag Cvitanovic
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
The theory developed here (that you will not find in any other course :) has much in common with (and complements) statistical mechanics and field …
📖 Read pages 19-52 of The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
 Read Chapter 1: What is Life? pages 19-52 in The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane (W.W. Norton, 2015, …
📗 Started reading The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
 Started reading pages 1-18 Introduction: Why is Life the Way it is in The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick …
🔖 Quantum Information: What Is It All About? by Robert B. Griffiths | Entropy
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
This paper answers Bell’s question: What does quantum information refer to? It is about quantum properties represented by subspaces of the quantum …
Energy and Matter at the Origins of Life by Nick Lane | Santa Fe Institute
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
All living things are made of cells, and all cells are powered by electrochemical charges across thin lipid membranes — the ‘proton motive force.’ We …
ðŸ‘“ 'A Sort of Everyday Struggle' | The Harvard Crimson
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
Women in Harvard's math department report a bevy of inequalitiesâ€”from a discouraging absence of female faculty to a culture of "math bro" …
SFI and ASU to offer online M.S. in Complexity | Complexity Explorer
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
SFI and Arizona State University soon will offer the world’s first comprehensive online master’s degree in complexity science. It will be the …
Spontaneous fine-tuning to environment in many-species chemical reaction networks
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
Significance A qualitatively more diverse range of possible behaviors emerge in many-particle systems once external drives are allowed to push the …
First Support for a Physics Theory of Life
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
Take chemistry, add energy, get life. The first tests of Jeremy England’s provocative origin-of-life hypothesis are in, and they appear to show how …
Entropy 2018: From Physics to Information Sciences and Geometry
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
14-16 May 2018; Auditorium Enric Casassas, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain One of the most frequently used scientific …
📖 Read pages 16-55 of A Mind at Play by Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
 Read pages 16-55 of A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman Knowing that I’ve read a lot about …
Bioinformatics beta on Stack Exchange
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
Apparently there’s a beta Bioinformatics group on Stack Exchange now. It’s just come out of alpha in the last few days and it appears anyone can join …
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A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
The life and times of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon—the neglected architect of the Information Age, whose …
A Universal Theory of Life: Math, Art & Information by Sara Walker
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
Dr. Walker introduces the concept of information, then proposes that information may be a necessity for biological complexity in this …
Can entropy be defined for and the Second Law applied to the entire universe? by Arieh Ben-Naim
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
This article provides answers to the two questions posed in the title. It is argued that, contrary to many statements made in the literature, neither …
The hidden simplicity of biology by Paul C W Davies and Sara Imari Walker
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
Life is so remarkable, and so unlike any other physical system, that it is tempting to attribute special factors to it. Physics is founded on the …
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The "Hard Problem" of Life by Sara Imari Walker & Paul C.W. Davies
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
Chalmer's famously identified pinpointing an explanation for our subjective experience as the "hard problem of consciousness". He argued that …
The Algorithmic Origins of Life
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
The origin of life is arguably one of the greatest unanswered questions in science. A primary challenge is that without a proper definition for life …
Origins of Life: A Problem for Physics by Sara I. Walker
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
The origins of life stands among the great open scientific questions of our time. While a number of proposals exist for possible starting points in …
Can Darwinian Evolution Explain Lamarckism?
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
Answering three questions can help reveal how the “inheritance of acquired characteristic” fits into modern evolutionary theory. Answering three …
Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2016
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
The ALife conferences are the major meeting of the artificial life research community since 1987. For its 15th edition in 2016, it was held in Latin …
Changing Global Diets: the website | Eat This Podcast
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
A fascinating tool for exploring how, where and when diets evolve. Foodwise, what unites Cameroon, Nigeria and Grenada? How about Cape Verde, …
Complex Networks & Their Applications V
boffosocko.com - Author Chris Aldrich
This book highlights cutting-edge research in the field of network science, offering scientists, researchers and graduate students a unique …