http://forgetomori.com/2009/science/the-evolution-of-noise/ Extraordinary claims. Ordinary investigations. Thu, 17 May 2012 09:46:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://forgetomori.com/2009/science/the-evolution-of-noise/comment-page-1/#comment-2646 GSGill Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:27:10 +0000 http://forgetomori.com/2009/science/the-evolution-of-noise/#comment-2646 Hmm, in the case of evolution, information isn't actually lost, it is merely changed. Lossy Image compression, "I am sitting in a room", they are both examples of lost information. There are no mistakes involved - if you compress the same image 600 times on 600 different computers, you will get the exact same result, UNLESS some mistake occurred during compression. I think a much better analogy of evolution ( on a genetic basis ), would be copying the same image, using an unreliable method, many times over. There will no doubt be mistakes introduced in every copy. Hence the end result may be somewhat different than the original. I guess both are examples of noise, but I don't think evolution is a "special" kind of noise. Hmm, in the case of evolution, information isn’t actually lost, it is merely changed. Lossy Image compression, “I am sitting in a room”, they are both examples of lost information. There are no mistakes involved – if you compress the same image 600 times on 600 different computers, you will get the exact same result, UNLESS some mistake occurred during compression.
I think a much better analogy of evolution ( on a genetic basis ), would be copying the same image, using an unreliable method, many times over. There will no doubt be mistakes introduced in every copy. Hence the end result may be somewhat different than the original.
I guess both are examples of noise, but I don’t think evolution is a “special” kind of noise.

]]> http://forgetomori.com/2009/science/the-evolution-of-noise/comment-page-1/#comment-2144 neverville (A Johnson) Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:56:59 +0000 http://forgetomori.com/2009/science/the-evolution-of-noise/#comment-2144 Beautiful, beautiful noise: http://forgetomori.com/2009/science/the-evolution-of-noise/ Beautiful, beautiful noise: http://forgetomori.com/2009/science/the-evolution-of-noise/

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