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The Information Universe Conference
Yesterday, via a notification from Lanyard, I came across a notice for the upcoming conference “The Information Universe” which hits several of the sweet spots for areas involving information theory,...
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BIRS Workshop: Advances and Challenges in Protein-RNA: Recognition,...
Bookmarked 15w5063: Advances and Challenges in Protein-RNA: Recognition, Regulation and Prediction (Banff International Research Station | birs.ca) BIRS 5 day worksop, arriving in Banff, Alberta...
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Molecular Programming Project
Bookmarked Molecular Programming Project (Molecular Programming Project) “The Molecular Programming Project aims to develop computer science principles for programming information-bearing molecules...
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The Math That Connects Pluto to DNA — NOVA Next | PBS
Bookmarked The Math That Connects Pluto to DNA by Alex Riley (NOVA Next | PBS) How a mathematical breakthrough from the 1960s now powers everything from spacecraft to cell phones. Concurrent with the...
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Winter Q-BIO Quantitative Biology Meeting February 15-18, 2016
Bookmarked Winter Q-BIO Quantitative Biology Meeting February 15-18, 2016 (w-qbio.org) The Winter Q-BIO Quantitative Biology Meeting is coming up at the Sheraton Waikiki in Oahu, HI, USA A predictive...
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The Information Theory of Life | Quanta Magazine
Bookmarked The Information Theory of Life (Quanta Magazine) The Information Theory of Life: The polymath Christoph Adami is investigating life’s origins by reimagining living things as...
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Quantum Biological Information Theory by Ivan B. Djordjevic | Springer
Bookmarked Quantum Biological Information Theory (Springer, 2015) Springer recently announced the publication of the book Quantum Biological Information Theory by Ivan B. Djordjevic, in which I’m sure...
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Donald Forsdyke Indicates the Concept of Information in Biology Predates...
As it was published, I had read Kevin Hartnett’s article and interview with Christoph Adami The Information Theory of Life in Quanta Magazine. I recently revisited it and read through the commentary...
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What is Information? by Christoph Adami
Bookmarked What is Information? [1601.06176] by Christoph Adami (arxiv.org) Information is a precise concept that can be defined mathematically, but its relationship to what we call "knowledge" is not...
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Devourer of Encyclopedias: Stanislaw Lem’s “Summa Technologiae”
Read Devourer of Encyclopedias: Stanislaw Lem's "Summa Technologiae" (The Los Angeles Review of Books) A review of Summa Technologiae by Stanislaw Lem by David Auerbach from the Los Angeles Review of...
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How Can We Apply Physics to Biology?
Bookmarked How Can We Apply Physics to Biology? by Philip Ball (nautil.us) We don’t yet know quite what a physics of biology will consist of. But we won’t understand life without it. This is an...
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NIMBioS Tutorial: Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics 2016
Bookmarked NIMBioS Tutorial: Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics 2016 by NIMBioS (nimbios.org) This tutorial will review the basics of theory in the field of evolutionary quantitative genetics and its...
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Statistical Physics, Information Processing, and Biology Workshop at Santa Fe...
Bookmarked Information Processing and Biology by John Carlos Baez (Azimuth) The Santa Fe Institute, in New Mexico, is a place for studying complex systems. I’ve never been there! Next week I’ll go...
View Article🔖 Emerging Frontiers of Neuroengineering: A Network Science of Brain...
Bookmarked Emerging Frontiers of Neuroengineering: A Network Science of Brain Connectivity (arxiv.org) Neuroengineering is faced with unique challenges in repairing or replacing complex neural systems...
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How Life Turns Asymmetric | Quanta Magazine
Read How Life Turns Asymmetric | Quanta Magazine (quantamagazine.org) Scientists are uncovering how our bodies — and everything within them — tell right from left. In 2009, after she was diagnosed...
View Article🔖 How Life (and Death) Spring From Disorder | Quanta Magazine
Bookmarked How Life (and Death) Spring From Disorder by Philip Ball (Quanta Magazine) Life was long thought to obey its own set of rules. But as simple systems show signs of lifelike behavior,...
View ArticleIPAM Workshop on Regulatory and Epigenetic Stochasticity in Development and...
Bookmarked IPAM Workshop on Regulatory and Epigenetic Stochasticity in Development and Disease (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA | March 1-3, 2017) Epigenetics refers to information...
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A new fossil could push back the start of life on Earth | The Economist
Read A new fossil could push back the start of life on Earth (The Atlantic) The putative fossils formed just a few hundred million years after Earth itself SCIENTISTS have a pretty good idea of how...
View Article🔖 Origins of Life: A Problem for Physics
Bookmarked Origins of Life: A Problem for Physics by Sara I. Walker (arXiv) The origins of life stands among the great open scientific questions of our time. While a number of proposals exist for...
View Article🔖 The “Hard Problem” of Life by Sara Imari Walker & Paul C.W. Davies
Bookmarked The "Hard Problem" of Life (arXiv) Chalmer's famously identified pinpointing an explanation for our subjective experience as the "hard problem of consciousness". He argued that subjective...
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