Doing => to set variables seems like extra work from just equals. Hopefully it’s kind of optional like it is in R.
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sadly not. When I was developing Zyme, I was thinking a lot about the molecular components of a cell and how one might translate them into a virtual machine. I was particularly inspired by enZYMEs.
I just realized that that's what the oeigin of the deus ex drug must be as well lol
Zyme is an ancient Greek word that means leaven, a lot of organizations and companies use it
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#13Interesting. I haven't seen much in this space since Lee Spector's "push" more than 20 years ago (http://faculty.hampshire.edu/lspector/push.html). I did see a mention of Push in the FAQ but it would be very interesting to compare this in detail. If I get it correctly Zyme programs are evolved on the bytecode level whereas Push's stack architecture is designed to be evolvable directly at the syntactic level? A head-to-head comparison / benchmark would be super interesting.
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#14This is really, really cool.
Cue the replicators.
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#15Interesting. I haven't seen much in this space since Lee Spector's "push" more than 20 years ago ( http://faculty.hampshire.edu/lspector/push.html ). I did see a mention of Push in the FAQ but it would be very interesting to compare this in detail. If I get it correctly Zyme programs are evolved on the bytecode level whereas Push's stack architecture is designed to be evolvable directly at the syntactic level? A head…
Hampshire represent! I'm also quite interested in this space.
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#16Is it named after the drug in Deus Ex
That was my first thought too, hahah.
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#19Adding a toggle between bytecode and (dis)assembly would make help with visualizing what kind of effect mutation has.
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#20Adding a toggle between bytecode and (dis)assembly would make help with visualizing what kind of effect mutation has.
You're right - a disassembler would be incredibly valuable; and while I haven’t gotten around to implementing one yet, it’s definitely on my radar. But even the idea of even having an assembler is exciting because it suggests the output programs could be interpretable, enabling us to identify the underlying algorithms that (hopefully) emerge through evolution.