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OgreMkV



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(Permalink) Posted: Jan. 29 2014,16:37   

Quote (DiEb @ Jan. 29 2014,12:19)
Has anyone read BIO-Complexity's only "research article" for 2013:  Active Information in Metabiology? It was published last month...

That's the funniest thing I've seen in a while.

I don't recall ever seeing the phrase "fascinating intellectual romp" in a peer reviewed paper before.

Of course, when one's peers are morons...

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Dr.GH



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(Permalink) Posted: Jan. 31 2014,01:06   

Quote (OgreMkV @ Jan. 29 2014,14:37)
Quote (DiEb @ Jan. 29 2014,12:19)
Has anyone read BIO-Complexity's only "research article" for 2013:  Active Information in Metabiology? It was published last month...

That's the funniest thing I've seen in a while.

I don't recall ever seeing the phrase "fascinating intellectual romp" in a peer reviewed paper before.

Of course, when one's peers are morons...

Wow. The entire abstract is a word fest.

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sparc



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 12 2014,23:16   

No new articles. Still, D. Klinghoffer is celbrating Bio-Complexity's 4th birthday

[mibad--meant to reply but hit Edit instead. -Steve]

Edited by stevestory on Feb. 13 2014,11:00

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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 13 2014,08:10   

Tard to ass resuscitation....where's Joe?

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stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 13 2014,10:00   

Quote (sparc @ Feb. 13 2014,00:16)
No new articles. Still, D. Klinghoffer is celbrating Bio-Complexity's 4th birthday

[mibad--meant to reply but hit Edit instead. -Steve]

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Happy Darwin Day! To Celebrate, Go Review Four Years of BIO-Complexity
David Klinghoffer February 12, 2014 3:34 AM

Why not? It sure won't take long  :p

   
REC



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 13 2014,16:32   

Wonder what happened to the follow-up on this one:

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These translation products, called vector proteins, are functionless unless they form legible Chinese characters, in which case they serve the real function of writing. This coupling of artificial genetic causation to the real world of language makes evolutionary experimentation possible in a context where innovation can have a richness of variety and a depth of causal complexity that at least hints at what is needed to explain the complexity of bacterial proteomes. In order for this possibility to be realized, we here provide a complete Stylus genome as an experimental starting point.


Kinda goofy, but they built a 70,000 word genome. Not a small amount of work. This was done and written up by May 2011. And then, did they try to 'evolve' it?

Guesses:
1) They did, it works, shhh....
2) DI gets into a fight: providing a fitness landscape is "smuggling information" in even though that is exactly what the environment does in evolution, crap our analogy defeats our point...shh
3) The Chinese speaker bailed
4) The bug evolved into the prolific writings of VJTorley, translated and dumped onto UD for us.

Link

Edited by REC on Feb. 13 2014,16:32

  
DiEb



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(Permalink) Posted: April 08 2014,15:13   

Winston Ewert wrote the first paper of 2014: Digital Irreducible Complexity: A Survey of Irreducible Complexity in Computer Simulations. I've just started to read it and I already have a problem with the last paragraph of his section on "Avida" (p. 3):
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The parts in Avida are the individual steps in the process. If any of the steps in the process are missing, Avida will fail to calculate the EQU function. In this sense Pennock is correct, but we will discuss whether he is correct with respect to the other terms of Behe’s definition.

Isn't the EQU function the irreducibly complex system, and Avida just the environment in which it dwells?

   
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(Permalink) Posted: April 08 2014,16:25   

Quote (k.e.. @ Feb. 13 2014,08:10)
Tard to ass resuscitation....where's Joe?

Here

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midwifetoad



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(Permalink) Posted: April 08 2014,17:32   

Joe was much smarter when he was dead.

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(Permalink) Posted: April 08 2014,19:22   

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Ewert 2014: The largest model considered here, Avida, uses approximately fifty million digital organisms [14]. The smallest model considered, Sadedin’s geometric model, uses fifty thousand digital organisms [17]. The individual components should be improbable enough that the average guessing time exceeds these numbers. We can determine this probability by taking one over the cube root of the number of digital organisms in the model. We are taking the cube root because we are assuming the minimal number of parts to be three. The actual system may have more parts, but we are interested in the level of complexity that would make it impossible to produce any system of several parts. Making this calculation gives us minimal required levels for complexity of approximately 1/368 for Avida and 1/37 for Sadedin’s model.

If you want to know the probability of calculating the random assembly of a specific sequence of three with an alphabet of 26, it is 1/(26^3) = 1/17576.

If there is a population of random sequences of 50 million, then it is virtually certain to occur. However, if the specific sequence has a length of nineteen, then the probability is 1/(26^19) = 1/7e26, which is virtually impossible in 50 million trials, or even 50 million trials a million million times.

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DiEb



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(Permalink) Posted: April 11 2014,06:19   

Quote (Zachriel @ April 09 2014,01:22)
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Ewert 2014: The largest model considered here, Avida, uses approximately fifty million digital organisms [14]. The smallest model considered, Sadedin’s geometric model, uses fifty thousand digital organisms [17]. The individual components should be improbable enough that the average guessing time exceeds these numbers. We can determine this probability by taking one over the cube root of the number of digital organisms in the model. We are taking the cube root because we are assuming the minimal number of parts to be three. The actual system may have more parts, but we are interested in the level of complexity that would make it impossible to produce any system of several parts. Making this calculation gives us minimal required levels for complexity of approximately 1/368 for Avida and 1/37 for Sadedin’s model.

If you want to know the probability of calculating the random assembly of a specific sequence of three with an alphabet of 26, it is 1/(26^3) = 1/17576.

If there is a population of random sequences of 50 million, then it is virtually certain to occur. However, if the specific sequence has a length of nineteen, then the probability is 1/(26^19) = 1/7e26, which is virtually impossible in 50 million trials, or even 50 million trials a million million times.

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xposted from uncommon thread

Winston Ewert started a thread on his article at Sal Cordova's Creation Evolution University: Digital Irreducible Complexity - Author Thread

   
sparc



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(Permalink) Posted: April 11 2014,07:21   

Quote (DiEb @ April 11 2014,06:19)
Quote (Zachriel @ April 09 2014,01:22)
 
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Ewert 2014: The largest model considered here, Avida, uses approximately fifty million digital organisms [14]. The smallest model considered, Sadedin’s geometric model, uses fifty thousand digital organisms [17]. The individual components should be improbable enough that the average guessing time exceeds these numbers. We can determine this probability by taking one over the cube root of the number of digital organisms in the model. We are taking the cube root because we are assuming the minimal number of parts to be three. The actual system may have more parts, but we are interested in the level of complexity that would make it impossible to produce any system of several parts. Making this calculation gives us minimal required levels for complexity of approximately 1/368 for Avida and 1/37 for Sadedin’s model.

If you want to know the probability of calculating the random assembly of a specific sequence of three with an alphabet of 26, it is 1/(26^3) = 1/17576.

If there is a population of random sequences of 50 million, then it is virtually certain to occur. However, if the specific sequence has a length of nineteen, then the probability is 1/(26^19) = 1/7e26, which is virtually impossible in 50 million trials, or even 50 million trials a million million times.

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xposted from uncommon thread

Winston Ewert started a thread on his article at Sal Cordova's Creation Evolution University: Digital Irreducible Complexity - Author Thread

Why did he chose the pages of this not-even-intelligent-design-proponent-YEC? He could have offered you some of the space available for online comments in Bio-Complexity.

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sparc



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(Permalink) Posted: April 11 2014,07:33   

Here's a link to a google search for all comments ever left at Bio-Complexity: "Reader comments" site:bio-complexity.org

ETA: Judge yourself.

Edited by sparc on April 11 2014,07:34

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REC



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(Permalink) Posted: July 10 2014,21:19   

I see Bio-Complexity has posted their 3rd! (review) article of 2014, by David Snoke. As in "Behe and Snoke." Champagne corks popping!!!!

What is odd to me is that it seemed to get 0 fanfare, from UD, DI news, ENV.... at least that I saw or can find by google.

True, the subject is genuinely embarrassing: "Systems Biology as a Research Program for Intelligent Design." Snoke went to a conference that featured Systems Biology, declares it springs from ID.

But why the silence?

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..in 2001 I wrote:
A theory of design can in principle be predictive and
quantitative. For example, a computer chip manufacturer,
which takes apart a chip made by a rival
company, proceeds on the assumption that the circuits
are well designed; this does not lead them to
end their investigation, but rather, drives their study
of the chip. The good-design assumption leads to
specific predictions and applications, e.g., the prediction
that it is unlikely to find wires which take up
metal and space but serve no purpose, so that there
should be few wires which are dead ends, with the
application that studying any particular wire is likely
to be useful. A bad-design assumption (e.g. that the
chip maker made many random circuits and then
just picked out the ones that worked) would give
very different predictions.


Hmm.... so "bad design" isn't a religious statement. The ID design inference is, and has been, to good design only.

Lots of "there is no junk" and the that the language "design or function or mechanism"="Designed Functions and God's Machines."

  
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(Permalink) Posted: July 12 2014,17:04   

Actually there is an evolved circuit that works better than most designed circuits and has stuff that goes nowhere.

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(Permalink) Posted: July 14 2014,10:42   

Quote (midwifetoad @ July 12 2014,16:04)
Actually there is an evolved circuit that works better than most designed circuits and has stuff that goes nowhere.

Is that from its EM field affecting other circuits, or is it a quantum effect? (Not that I'd understand the details, but anyway.)

  
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(Permalink) Posted: July 15 2014,06:11   

Rather old.

http://www.genetic-programming.com/publish....96.html

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki....ardware

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sparc



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(Permalink) Posted: Dec. 19 2014,23:08   

Jeffrey Shallit has done us the great favor of reviewing the contributions to the 2014 volume of Bio-Complexity (reprinted at PT):
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How many papers did Bio-Complexity manage to publish this year? A grand total of four! Why, that's 1/8th of a paper per member of the editorial team. By any measure, this is simply astounding productivity. They can be proud of how much they have added to the world's knowledge!

Looking a little deeper, we see that of these four, only one is labeled as a "research article". Two are "critical reviews" and one is a "critical focus". And of these four stellar contributions, one has 2 out of the 3 authors on the editorial team, two are written by members of the editorial team, leaving only one contribution having no one on the editorial team. And that one is written by Winston Ewert, who is a "senior researcher" at Robert J. Marks II's "evolutionary informatics lab". In other words, with all the ideas that ID supporters are brimming with, they couldn't manage to publish a single article by anyone not on the editorial team or directly associated with the editors.


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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 29 2015,12:08   

Here we are, 2/3 of the way through 2015, and Biocomplexity has an outstanding -0- publications.

30 or so editors, the work of the full-time research staff of the Biologic institute.......

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 29 2015,13:30   

I guess there were complications?

  
REC



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 29 2015,14:25   

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I guess there were complications?

Such as the complete collapse of ID, which has left the little scientific facade they created dangling in the breeze?

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 31 2015,06:40   

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Here we are, 2/3 of the way through 2015, and Biocomplexity has an outstanding -0- publications.

30 or so editors, the work of the full-time research staff of the Biologic institute.......

But as of June they do have a new editor in chief. I'm not sure who should be more embarrassed - us for not noticing, or them for being so irrelevant that nobody noticed, not us and not UD either.

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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 31 2015,08:36   

Quote (Bob O'H @ Aug. 31 2015,06:40)
Quote (REC @ Aug. 29 2015,12:08)
Here we are, 2/3 of the way through 2015, and Biocomplexity has an outstanding -0- publications.

30 or so editors, the work of the full-time research staff of the Biologic institute.......

But as of June they do have a new editor in chief. I'm not sure who should be more embarrassed - us for not noticing, or them for being so irrelevant that nobody noticed, not us and not UD either.

I wonder if Editor Marks will bring back his "Galapagos Finch" character he used to post as on UD.  That would make their phony science rag almost worth reading.  Almost.   :D

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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 31 2015,15:31   

Quote (Bob O'H @ Aug. 31 2015,04:40)
   
Quote (REC @ Aug. 29 2015,12:08)
Here we are, 2/3 of the way through 2015, and Biocomplexity has an outstanding -0- publications.

30 or so editors, the work of the full-time research staff of the Biologic institute.......

But as of June they do have a new editor in chief. I'm not sure who should be more embarrassed - us for not noticing, or them for being so irrelevant that nobody noticed, not us and not UD either.


Hmm, there have been no publications in 'Bio-Complexity' this year, including since Marks became editor-in-chief, so what is editor-in-chief Marks chiefly editing? And what was the former editor-in-chief chiefly editing?

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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 31 2015,16:13   

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And what was the former editor-in-chief chiefly editing?


I'm guessing fart noises.   It's what he's qualified for.
And Barry A and Gordo are certainly qualified to put their noses to the grindstone on this for the Honor & Glory That is ID.

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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 31 2015,16:30   

Maybe notpologies?

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 31 2015,18:53   

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Maybe notpologies?



Notractions?

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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 31 2015,19:11   

Quote (Leftfield @ Sep. 01 2015,02:53)
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Maybe notpologies?



Notractions?

Well as a vanity publication peer review free, it's mainly missing vanity.

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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 31 2015,22:30   

Quote (k.e.. @ Aug. 31 2015,17:11)
Quote (Leftfield @ Sep. 01 2015,02:53)
Quote (Henry J @ Aug. 31 2015,16:30)
Maybe notpologies?



Notractions?

Well as a vanity publication peer review free, it's mainly missing vanity.

And publication.
???

   
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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 31 2015,22:42   

Wonder how many submissions they rejected?

  
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