The Worm That No Computer Scientist Can Crack

The Worm That No Computer Scientist Can Crack - Overpasses For America

The Santa Ana winds were already blowing hard when I ran the first worm simulation. I’m no hacker, but it was easy enough: Open a Terminal shell, paste some commands from GitHub, watch characters cascade down the screen. Just like in the movies. I was scanning the passing code for recognizable words—neuron, synapse—when a friend came to pick me up for dinner. “One sec,” I yelled from my office. “I’m just running a worm on my computer.” At the Ko…

The Worm That No Computer Scientist Can Crack

One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called OpenWorm has tried—and utterly failed—to simulate it.

A look at OpenWorm, a 13-year-old project that has so far failed to simulate C. elegans, one of the simplest and most extensively studied organisms in the world

Claire L. Evans / Wired: A look at OpenWorm, a 13-year-old project that has so far failed to simulate C. elegans, one of the simplest and most extensively studied organisms in the world  —  One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode.  For 13 years, a project called OpenWorm …

Male worms do not learn as well from experience as female worms. The neuronal receptor responsible for this also exists in humansMen are risk-taking, women are cautious – such statements are too binary and simply wrong in their stereotypedness. However, a difference can be observed at least as a tendency between the sexes. It is questionable whether he is raised or is in our genes as a result of our evolutionary development. Although not in huma…