Novel Ideas By AI
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Is Bone a Topology Optimizer? Testing the Claim That Wolff’s Law and Engineering Design Software Run the Same Update
Bone and engineering software both settle on structures where material is loaded evenly, and researchers have…
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Can Computers Learn “Self” the Way the Thymus Does? Testing the Case Against Negative Selection
The thymus removes T cells that react to the body’s own proteins, and a famous algorithm…
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Does the Brain Replay Memories Like a Game-Playing AI? Sleep, Shuffled Moves, and the Penguin Problem
A rat’s hippocampus replays its runs during rest, and a game-playing AI replays stored moves, but…
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Does a Bacterium Store a Bit the Way a Computer Chip Does? Testing the Lac Operon–Latch Analogy
A bacterium’s lactose switch and a computer’s memory cell both hold a bit through positive feedback,…
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Did a Slime Mold Redesign Tokyo’s Rail Network, or Did We Draw the Target Around the Arrow?
A slime mold given oat flakes at Tokyo’s cities grew a network matching the rail system’s…
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Do Fly Bristle Cells Compute a Maximal Independent Set? What the Notch–Delta Analogy Gets Right, and Where the Algorithm Outgrew the Fly
Fruit-fly bristle cells choose spacing with a Notch–Delta process that matches the maximal independent set problem…
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Is the Speed of Light a Ruler or a Wall? A Guided Tour of Everything That Seems to Beat It, and Three Thousand Years of Thinking About Light
The speed of light is both a ruler and a wall: the metre is defined from…
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Can a Spam Filter Proofread Like a Ribosome? Kinetic Proofreading, Classifier Cascades, and the Odd Case of Greylisting
Hopfield’s kinetic proofreading multiplies error rates by making molecules wait, and classifier cascades multiply error rates…
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Do Dormant Seeds Place Kelly Bets? A Gambler’s Equation Meets the Sonoran Desert
Desert seeds that wait through a drought resemble gamblers following Kelly’s rule, and the mathematics genuinely…
